Portland has a variety of regular social media events, such as Beer and Blog, the Social Media Club, and the Portland WordPress User Group. Salem (the capital of Oregon and located about an hour south of Portland) doesn’t have any sort of regular social media gatherings… yet. Vin Thomas and Bo Lane are launching the Salem Tribe, a gathering of individuals to talk about social media use and other new media topics.
I’m honored that they asked me to come down and speak at their inaugural event next Monday, October 5th at the Ike Box. I’ll be presenting Ignore the “Experts” and Build Influence Naturally, a look at using social media in effective, ethical ways to build trust and influence online.
Perhaps I’ll see you there?
Photo by MR+G, used under Creative Commons licensing
I had the pleasure of presenting at WordCamp Seattle this weekend. Big thanks to Josh, Bean, Calvin, Dan, and the rest of the volunteers, sponsors, and attendees that made it a great event. I presented a talk based on an earlier blog post about the steps in launching a new blog, specifically SocialPhotoTalk.com. Here are the slides from my presentation. The talk was recorded; once that video is available I’ll link it here as well.
I know of a couple other people from the Portland area that are heading down to Las Vegas for Blog World Expo next month. It promises to be a great weekend of all things bloggy (read more on a previous post). I thought it might be interesting to try to gather information on those from the area who were going, find out if we’re on any of the same flights, and so on.
If you’re from the Portland area and heading to BlogWorld, leave a comment below.
Observation: there’s the Beer and Blog crowd, and there’s the Social Media Club crowd. And there’s very little overlap between those crowds.
Good? Bad? Doesn’t Matter? Discuss.
