SOBCon07: Podcast Series with the Speakers
Liz Strauss and a merry band of forward thinking bloggers have created an event on May 11 - 12 in Chicago called the SOBCon07: Take Your Blogging to the Next Level. It's a day-long event by bloggers for bloggers. It's a day-long conversation, a mastermind group of like-minded forward thinking bloggers, a public skateboard park but with bloggers helping-pushing-inciting each other to take their blog to the next level.
Besides the great speakers...the thing I like is there are no keynotes. This isn't a top-down event where a few experts spoon-feed content into a passive audience, most of whom will take notes and be awed by what they saw and forget most of it 'for they pack their bags for home. No. This event is bloggers helping bloggers. Bloggers speaking about blogging. Bloggers taking each others' blog to the next level by...peer2peer, person-to-person inspiration and examples and helping and inspiring and challenging. Kinda like a bunch of skateboarders as Mike Wagner, CEO of White Rabbit Group, described them.
I love it! It's what blogging and its community of passionistas are all about. Grassroots, DIY, helping the next guy, sharing their skills, sharing their techniques and resources and hints and just plain ol' support...a hand to hold when the lights go out temporarily on inspiration and motivation and raison d'etre.
Mike Wagner, CEO for White Rabbit Group, is a speaker at SOBCon07 . Lucky for them. Mike's a great speaker and a great blogger. He asked me to interview about this event and his presentation.
Lucky for me!
Kinda scary too as Mike is the kind of person that incites crazy ideas that tend to freak people out (especially in established companies that don't realize their brand is a commodity now). And I got to thinkin' (which is scary in itself sometimes...)...what if...Mike and I interviewed the whole bunch of skaters, I mean bloggers, who are presenting at SOBCon07? And...and...what if we created a podcast out of that series of interviews? That way....people could subscribe and have the interviews uploaded, as they're prepared, to their respective rss reader (mine's newsgator) or iTunes.
So we did. And here it is:
Here's the podcast feeds if you wish to subscribe with:
* iTunes
Visit the SOBCon07 site for the list of speakers we plan to interview. Here are the 2 interviews completed so far:
* Mike Wagner, CEO of White Rabbit and Own Your Brand blog
* Rodney Rumford, CEO of VideoSticky
(Click their names for the MP3 file to download or listen in streaming mode.)
Our next interview is tomorrow afternoon with Chriss Cree of SuccessCreeations. (Posted here and added to the feeds the following day.)
* Mike Sansone, Converstations fame, on March 29
* Starbucker, on April 3rd.
* And others as their schedule allows ( and...ahem...as they reply.)
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