I’m Talking at the BCAIM Luncheon
This is an demonstration entry of my blogging prowess!
UPDATE: Apologies for the obscure post. I posted this live while talking at the BC Association of Integrated Marketers Christmas luncheon. I won’t post my slides, because they’re entirely comprised of screenshots, photos and movies. For those who attended, here’s a quick list of sites which I referred to in my talk:
Sample Blogs
- GM’s Fastlane – Blog by senior executives at GM
- Funeral Words – The first funeral blog I found
- Yoga Journal – Conference blogging for yoga?
Popular Blogs
- Slashdot – CNN for nerds
- Boing Boing – Pop culture and amusing weirdness
- Engadget – For your gadgetry festishists
- Instapundit – Popular political blog
- Dooce – Probably the most popular English-language online diary in the world (I’m speculating–anybody got alternate suggestions?)
Rest of Presentation
- The origin of my stupid diagram
- English Cut – Saville Row tailor
- Robert Scoble – Rose in Microsoft’s lapel, thorn in Microsoft’s side
- Microsoft
makes u-turn on gay rights issue - MSDN Blogs – All (most? many?) of Microsoft’s blogs in one place
- Zip.ca – Leading DVD rent-by-mail company in Canada
- Google results for Zip.ca
- Boris’s entry on Zip.ca – Witness the consumer backlash
- Technorati search for Nooked
- Bikeforums.net – The origin of the Kryptonite lock video
- One of many lock-picking videos
- Kryptonite Locks
- Kryptonite class action lawsuit
- Technorati – Search the live web. Currently, the best spot to find blogs for a particular interest or industry
- iTunes Podcast directory
- Rocketboom – Popular vlog
Other Links
If I had more time, I’d have talked about some popular social software tools that bloggers use to connect and extend their relationships online. A few of these are:
- Flickr – Photosharing service
- Delicious – Social bookmarking tool. BCAIM folks may be interested in this link list I assembled for another talk.
- 43 Things and 43
Places – Aspirational sites, of a kind
Geoffrey 
