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Chris Borgan Interview – Part 2

July 20, 2009 in double popped, videos with 2 Comments

This is the second part of my doublepop interview with Chris Brogan (@ChrisBrogan) and John Saddington (@human3rror). In this 2nd part Chris shares some interesting thoughts on social media, church online, and his new book – “Trust Agents.”
What are your thoughts on what Chris talked about? Be sure to leave your comment below, and check out the 3rd installment of my interview with Chris Brogan as well!

{by the way; are you following me on twitter?}

About Chris – {from ChrisBrogan.com}
Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, and home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies.

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati.

Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.

He recently became president of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency. He runs the Inbound Marketing Summit events with CrossTech Media. Chris frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media.

Chris won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for thought leaders for 2008. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, The Montreal Gazette, Newsweek, and some other places.

Prior to these roles in the media and events space, Chris had over 16 years of telecommunications experience in wireless and landline technologies, including enterprise software and hardware experience, project management expertise, and applications/solutions engineering experience, as well.

What Chris Has Done

If you’re wondering why you’re bothering to read anything Chris writes, here are a few bullet points of things that he’s done in his past that might be relevant:

Won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for 2008.
Blogged since 1998 (when it was called journaling).
Recorded several podcasts, and launched a small new media network in 2006.
Videoblogged in several forms, including Small Boxes and AttentionUPGRADE.
Built data centers, released software, acquired companies, and all kinds of other fun projects while working for a wireless telecommunications company.
Launched the PodCamp unconference series with Christopher S. Penn.
Programmed and hosted the Video on the Net conference in 2007.
Worked on an Internet video startup with Jeff Pulver in 2007.
Collaborated on tons of social media and social networks projects over 2007.

Chris Brogan Interview – Part 1

July 16, 2009 in double popped, videos with 0 Comments

I had the chance to DoublePop Chris Brogan yesterday, and man is that guy sharp. Many of you may know Chris from his website, twitter, or his company, New Marketing Labs.  Chris emphasizes the importance of building trust, and relationships when building a brand.  Ministry leaders should pay attention because many of the things Chris shares applies directly to you, and your organization.
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I’m on posterous. Are you?

June 29, 2009 in life with 2 Comments

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I’ll be honest. God has blessed me with some crazy-awesome friends. Hands down – I am friends with some of the most creative, and innovate people walking the Earth right now. Not only are they super talented – but they are using their God-given talent to do Kingdom work. I like that!

One of the best parts about having such a great group of friends; I”m always learning about really cool, new ways to do things that I am already doing – but better! One of my good friends, John, made a post on Church Crunch the other day titled – “Why I’m moving to Posterous and Leaving TwitPic (and everything else like it)”

My first thought after reading that post was;

“OH NO! Not another social media network to keep up with. No way!”

But then I looked into it a bit more, talked with John a bit more – and now I”m sold! It’s not another social media network to keep up with – in fact – it keeps up with the ones you already have!
If you consider yourself “in” to social media – this is a really, REALLY, cool website. In fact; website really isn’t the right word – it’s much more then that – it’s a portal for all of your social MEDIA content. In fact, the more I play around with it – the more amazed I am at what you can do with it, and how it integrates so smoothly with all of your social media networks. It’s simply awesome! If you like to share life – you should use Posterous!

I really enjoying sharing life with others. I love connecting with people. I believe God created us to glorify Him, and one of the main ways we do that is by being in a right relationship with Him, and with others. Connecting with others. I believe God put in each of us a desire to want to do just that. To connect with other people; to share life with others, etc…which is one reason I enjoy being “extremely relational”. I enjoy sharing life with other people – I like to share videos, pictures, status updates, twitt’s – life. Posterous makes it really easy for me to share my pictures, videos, etc using Twitter. It’s also very simple to upload media to all of your “networks” at once. In a nutshell – it’s great!

John did a great job of explaining what Posterous is and does, so I”m not going to retype what he already wrote, but you should read his post – now.
I’ll end by simply saying

“Posterous makes it REALLY easy to share life. If you enjoy sharing life through Social media – go sign up!”

Let me know what you think about Posterous. Do you use it? Have you tried it? Have you subscribed to my updates?

facebook isn’t for strangers

June 12, 2009 in life with 5 Comments

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I’ve spend enough time on twitter, my personal website, online video games, facebook, and a million other social networks to know one thing – there are some WEIRD people out there.  Don’t get me wrong – I’m weird…but there are some people out there who are REALLY weird.

Tonight facebook allowed its users to select a personal domain for them to use – for life.  Yah, I got one.  But I’m not going to become “friends” with everyone who sends me a friend request.  For one, if I have never met you (or talked to you) we’re not friends.  Sorry – we could be friends one day, but we aren’t yet.

I have people all the time send me requests that I don’t even know.  If I don’t accept your “friend” request, please don’t take it personal, but I use facebook to connect with “real life” friends, family, students that I minister to , etc – and can’t risk someone going through all my “real life” friends and trying to “add” them as a “friend.”  (i.e. – “facebook stalking” them) Or prehaps getting mad at me for something I post on my blog, or say through twitter, and want to stalk me via my “real” friends on facebook.  I can’t risk it. I enjoy meeting people – so maybe one day we can be both “real” friends, and “facebook” friends.  But until then, let’s start with twitter, then take it to the next level!

How about you – do you keep your social networks separate?  Do you add everyone who sends you a “friend” request to facebook?  Is one more personal then the other?

Pete Wilson Interview On Social Media, Life, and Family

February 18, 2009 in double popped with 45 Comments

I had the awesome chance to “double pop” Pete Wilson, Pastor of Cross Point Church. What a great guy! He is just as cool, and humble, in person as he comes across in his sermons, blog, and twitter. Check out the video to hear his thoughts on some key questions!

{as always – if you would like to be on the next “double popped,” have any feedback, or want to just say “hi” – please leave a comment in the comment section!}

Pete Wilson is the pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville and the author of “Plan B: What To Do When God Doesn’t Show Up Like You Thought He Would.”