Event: If You Build It, Will They Come? (Yeah.)

January 17, 2009 :: Joe Loong

In a couple of my previous entries, I referenced an event last week, If You Build It, Will They Come?, a look at how Frank Warren of PostSecret, and Rohit Bhargava, author of Personality Not Included, used social media tools to build communities and a measure of stardom around their now-successful blogs.
Event sponsors were Network [...]


Truly Outrageous? On Creating Controversy With Your Blog

January 16, 2009 :: Joe Loong

During the Q&A portion of the If You Build It, Will They Come? event this week (which was a really good event, incidentally), speaker Frank Warren (of PostSecret fame) mentioned that when it comes to creating the weekly narrative from each batch of 20 or so posted secrets, “Controversy can be good.”
Controversy gets people’s blood [...]


Upcoming Event: If You Build It, Will They Come? An exploration of social networks, including what’s working now and how to build and nurture a community

January 5, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

On January 14, 2009, at Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus in Rockville, MD there is going to be an awesome event sponsored by Network Solutions that you all should attend if you are going to be in the area.
What’s it called?
The event is called: “If You Build It, Will They Come?” and it is [...]