Participate In Our BlogWorld Session Today

Ok, I've seen people live-blog a session before. And I've seen people create a unique hashtag for their session. And I've even seen people create a plancast for their session and check-in on Foursquare. All to promote their session.

This post with your #awesomesauce moderator @Lisa Gerber was pretty EPIC. Just sayin'. I really dig the idea and it was very well executed. So I tip my hat to you all and hope you had a blast at your session. I'm sorry I couldn't be there but I shall see you at BWENY (I hope).

Just wanted to say awesome job to both @Danny Brown and @ginidietrich , it was a great class and the interaction was excellent. :)) Ya'll made the entire 'group' proud!

Looking forward to seeing the video.

Ok!! bye for now! more later and `i'llg o through and answer anything I missed.

Awesome, thanks Lisa and everyone. That was fun.

Gini ended the session with a very pithy comment:

"ok, see ya."

Ack Missed it!

BTW I heard riot police had to disperse the crowd at the @Danny Brown and @ginidietrich talk. There were mounties and they fired tear gas. At least I think that was what was on TMZ.

PR doesn't control the story, the writer does.

Bloggers need to educate. cartoon: "are you sure this is part of the new ID process for a drivers license." (naked guy at DMV) to help the craptastic blogs go away.

Dave Fleet at Edelman in Toronto is a great example - he has a pitch page - how to pitch bloggers called pitching tips.

QUESTION: Have they seen anyone doing interesting things with press releases, or are they well and truly dead? And I don't mean the non-starter that was the SMR (social media release)...

Bad:

"How effectively is your brand website leveraging social to increase user value?" as the first sentence. Danny was immediately done.

Bad: "we are trying to promote our new social media campaign...... we are attaching a press release" From the audience, someone said`; "did you get my press release?" then (Laughter). lol. i'm doing closed captioning now.

thanks for the questions guys! I'll try to pop in soon, but its moving fast and I'm trying to type, look at what you're writing and keep my wits about me. :)

A good pitch from Adam Zuckerman: (I received this one) he introduced himself, said why he likes spin sucks, then he pitched a specific idea for Spin Sucks, along with some links to his social profiles short and simple, but personable and one we said, yea we want this guy to guest blog for us.

another good: she looked at everyone' s blog, she personalized the pitch talking about what danny did individually, and why a certain chapter of the book she was pitching would be relevant - she pitched different chapters to different bloggers. she closed by saying"you are under no obligation whatsoever to write about it"

crap. why is this over lunch hour? i'm hungry and I''m on the porch. Someone bring me a sandwich!

no, this is a good. Dnny doesn't write about what the pitcher had pitched, so he responded, "why did you think this was a fit for my readers becasue `i don't write about this." and he explained who he was, where he found him (Cision databse for PR industry) then he empathized with Danny's position of being randomly pitched.

now w're shoiwng the bad pitches.

Bloggers love to complain, write about negative stuff. (@dannybrown) if bloggers can go back to the positive, and try to emphasize the positive. (ie, always writing about bad pitches)

the pr agency has responsibility to coach the clients that it is going to take time (this is from audience). that they should already be making the relationships ahead of the product launch or because you already have the relationships.

from: @ginidietrich you should see the bad pitches, the crap we get. it's because people won't take the time to build a relationship months before a client's product needs to be launched. so it's hard to do in a 2 to 4 week window, which is why a great initial, introductory pitch is important.