Today’s my first day in New York City for the Web 2.0 Expo. Although I’m not officially going to any sessions today, I’ve already met quite a few interesting folks: the lovely (and very stylish!) Daria Shualy from Sense of Fashion and Sharel Omer of KonoLive, who talked with me about whuffie and bloggers and web apps (some of my favorite things!) I had a quick lunch with Kelly Leondard from the Hachette Book Group, who very kindly offered to send me a copy of Six Pixels of Separation, the hot new title from Mitch Joel that everyone is raving about. I can’t wait to read it and will share my thoughts here (I’m overdue for a business book round-up.)
We heard from Pam that she landed safely in London and today is meeting with our friends from MOO cards. She promises to take lots of pictures of her official #sbbuzz bee enjoying the sights in London.
If you’re interested in following along with us, the Twitter hashtag for the general Web 2.0 conference is #w2e (each session has its own tag as well). Pam and I will be posting updates to our own accounts (@pmohara and @mriggen respectively) and we’ll be updating our Flickr stream and this blog as time allows. If you are at either event, please give us a shout! We’d love to meet you in person. That’s what makes going to all these conferences so fun.
Michelle and I recently spoke at the 22nd Annual Maine Telecommunications Users Group (MTUG) conference up in Portland, Maine. Our presentation, called “Social Media for Business”, provided an overview of the types of social media sites out there, how you can get yourself or your business involved, and how we at BatchBlue have found success using social media.
In slides 3–31, we cover the types of social media sites, who the big players are, and some usage and demographic statistics. In slides 32–35, Michelle talked about some examples of how we’re using social media.
In slides 36–41, Michelle shared some stories of people we originally met on Twitter who have become and important part of our business. In the presentation, those slides merely show photos of these wonderful people, so I wanted to take a moment to call them out here.
BatchBlue was a proud sponsor of Rhode Island’s second annual We Mean Business (WMB) conference, held last monday, September 29th. Since Stephanie and I tend to be more behind-the-scenesy here at BatchBlue, it was a treat for us to attend the conference.
In the organizers’ own words, here’s some info on what the WMB is all about:
We Mean Business is your connection to business success in Rhode Island. Get help connecting with the right governmental and non-profit business organizations to start or grow your business; access a network of public and private consultants that can give you advice based on your business needs and learn about financing programs especially for the small business owner.
The day’s presentations focused on networking strategies, marketing tips, and client acquisition and retention. Since we had to woman our booth the whole day, we palled around with the other sponsors, great folks like Precision Web Marketing (who ran a complimentary report card on BatchBlue’s marketing website – thanks, guys!), JobsInRI.com, and the RI Hospitality and Tourism Association.
