I attended BlogOrlando this weekend. This is the second year that I have attended this free un-conference. Josh Hallett has put this event on the past three years. It is free because of the sponsorships that Josh brings in. They have different tracks that offering different sessions that you may be interested in.
Of the three sessions that I sat in today the Monetization track was my favorite. Ted Murphy from IZEA was leading this session. He is so loud and passionate it gets you excited about the topic. He could have been talking about a topic that I don’t particularly care for and it would have kept my attention. Some of the other presenters got up there and you could barely hear them and they didn’t seem happy to be there. Ted handed out two $20.00 bills to people and told them to write about him on his blog, whether it be good or bad, he didn’t care. That captured the audiences attention right away. Then people were more tuned in to what he had to say.
So if you are going to lead a session… be passionate!
I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeremy Schoemaker at BlogWorld for a quick interview. I could talk to him for hours, even days. He is so easy to talk to and is full of really good informative information. Check out my interview with him.
This is the year of the “firsts” for me! I have done so many new things this year and have seen so many new places, it is exciting.Earlier this month I had the chance to attend Affiliate Summit in Boston. I was eating lunch with Zac Johnson and his dad, Shawn Collins came over and said he had three tickets left to the Red Sox game that night and asked if we would like them. We were happy to accept them and met everyone down in the lobby at 6 pm.20 of us piled into three or four taxis and headed to Fenway Park. I haven’t been to a baseball game before, so I was really excited. Everyone in the group told me that this is the best place to experience a first game because it is still like the traditional old fields.Just like I saw in the movies there were guys running up and down the stands selling hotdogs, beer, cotton candy etc..
It started to rain but I wasn’t going anywhere seeing that it was my first game! So we continued to watch the game in the rain. Boston ended up winning the game against Texas with a final score of 19-17.
