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September 28, 2007
Live from BlogOrlando
I’m at BlogOrlando, which has been a great unconference – a free one-day conference run by Josh Hallett of Hyku. This morning, I talked about how you can and can’t use a blog for crisis communications, as demonstrated on the GM FastLane blog, which MS&L Digital manages.
And right after she and colleague Nichole Woodcock escaped from a large snake, our own Alicia Dorset led a great discussion about keeping your professional and personal lives separate online. Turns out a lot of people have been agonizing over this issue. Some of the dicussion topics:
- a pottymouth blogger who works for the Catholic Church
- a woman who wants to blog about her health problems but is afraid prospective employers will see it
- how personal you can get on Facebook or MySpace profiles that bosses and clients will see
- stalkers – they’re really out there
- a middle school teacher whose kids are desperately trying to find his MySpace profile
- the surprisingly vicious world of scrapbook blogging
Some other highlights: Jake McKee talked about how he worked on damage control for Lego when the company changed the color of three blocks without consulting its huge and dedicated fan base.
Tommy Duncan of the Tampa Bay local blog Sticksoffire.com talked about the demanding and exciting world of hyperlocal blogging.
And I really wanted to go to the search engine optimization session, but SEO was SRO.
Posted by Laurie Mayers at September 28, 2007 05:23 PM
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I'm sooooo going to start scrap booking. From the sound of it, I think it'll help me toughen up.
Great meeting you guys, glad you could join us down here in Orlando!
Posted by: Alex Rudloff at September 30, 2007 10:10 PM
Hey Alex, looking forward to seeing your scrapbook! thanks so much for the hospitality, it was a valuable conference; you folks did a great job putting it on.
Posted by: Laurie at October 1, 2007 10:18 PM
Glad you enjoyed the session! Great to meet you, and hear about the GM project.
Posted by: Jake McKee at October 7, 2007 09:05 PM
