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What Really Goes On At Blog World Expo
Posted On: September 23, 2008Posted In: Blogging Tips
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BlogWorld and New Media Expo
For those that don’t know, BlogWorldExpo recently took place this past weekend. It’s supposed to be a super big conference for us crazy bloggers, with tons of speakers and networking going on. Â Well, I didn’t get to go this year, actually, I’ve never been.
I plan to start trying to get out to these types of events, as you know how I feel about networking. To me, it’s pricesless. But we did have one of our own in attendance.
BrilliantJeni went to blogworld, and I was able to pull her away from the spa long enough to give us a little rundown of how things went. So, take a lil bit, press play, and listen to the first episode of the  Joe and Jeni show!
And yes, there will be more of these in the future, as she is all over the place, that’s a perk of working online, you’re mobile! Jeni is like the social networking junkie….she keeps me updated on all the variou social networking platforms. You may not know her yet, but trust me, this lady knows what she’s doing, and she has the PASSIVE income to prove it! Thanks for the chat Jeni 
…..got bacon?
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September 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am
It is my plan to be at blogworld expo 09 because by then I will be earning loads of money from my blog so I can afford the plane trip over to the conference and the networking will be amazing. Heck by this time next year I am going to be one of the guys with over 10,000 RSS subscribers (and I am not joking it is going to happen just you wait an see)….
People will want to network with me next year at the blog world expo. I might even take my wife so she can get a real taste for the blogging world
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Go get it the Ryan! Keep working man, I want to go next year too, that will be dope!
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September 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 am
These blogging events are really great and I would also like to join one of them sometimes. I don’t put to much pressure though, let’s see how things go!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Yeah, I really would like to get out to some sort of live event, to meet different bloggers/marketers. Won’t be the end of the world if I don’t, but it would be nice to do.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
My man Joe, coming through with the hot interview and dishing up the dirt. So the blogging events are all about networking, blogs, and drinking. Well, well, well, I just may make it out to some of these events after all.
Man, Jeni is on a 4 month vacation. WTF is that all about!!! I have got to figure out what she is on. I don’t know about 4 months, but if you can do it…why not. That is awesome!
Good stuff, Joe. Looking forward to more conversations, idea exchanges, and information from you in these interviews. Gave us a great idea of what “If this blog could talk” will be like, so thanks.
Best point was when Jeni talked about not getting too big for your blog and focus on helping people….that will lead you to the success that you desire.
I’m with Joe!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Yeah man Jeni is dope! And I agree, staying humble is where it’s at man, some aren’t humble to begin with so….staying humble isn’t an option lol.
But being humble and down to earth will take you a long way
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September 23rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Oh yeah, what’s all this bacon talk about? LOL!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
You had to be on plurk man! lol, Jeni and her crew have some strange thing with bacon on there lol.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
If they ever come to Toronto , I ll surely be there
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
You guys do some regular meetups up there don’t you ZK?
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September 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
of all the blogs to use the new commentluv, you as a prolific commenter has to find a glitch!!
I see that the script is showing the badge and hiding the select box but it’s not able to listen for the comment textarea getting into focus. This is the first time I’ve seen it happen, normally it plays nicely with other jquery scripts, this is probably happening because two scripts are listening to the focus event of the textarea and one is taking priority over commentluv.
I will investigate this and get a solution to you asap.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Welcome to the site Andy! Yeah man, I dunno whatup with it, but I’m sure you’ll get it worked out! I really enjoy it on other blogs, and want my readers to enjoy it as well!
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September 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Ah man, I just posted and wifi blinked so it appears it didn’t go through… let’s try this again-
@Ryan McLean – Hey, I’ll be one of your 10k subscribers AND I’ll be in line to meet you at Blog World 2009! This time, you can be the one to dive into the pool after a dollar, what do you say?
@Freddie -You hit the nail on the head about the humble factor being so important. I know that will be something that stays with me for the rest of my life. Meeting Darren and John Chow and seeing how approachable they were; it’s not an admirable quality they both had, but it really left a positive impression. I mean, come on, John Chow saw me watching him, stopped taking his videos, and walked over to shake my hand and introduce his wife. He didn’t just shimmy on by with his bad-ass self. That’s a cool cat.
PS Joe- I’m not sure an interview with me will suffice in the absence of your daily video. WHERE’S OUR VIDEO!!!!!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Great stuff Jeni, thanks again for doing the interview. And, I’m sure the people can do without a video for today
, if they start to riot, we may have to come up with something lol.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
@Freddie – Damn the bacon jokes! Damn alllllll the bacon jokes! I’m going to be branded as the bacon jokster after this! D’oh!
@Ben@frogstr – Based on this expo alone, I would suggest to anyone and everyone that they try to attend at least one event a year. The networking is great; you meet fellow bloggers of course, but I also met a number of CEO’s for ad networks who were asking ME for advice, developers who were willing to customize widgets for me, get hot tips about upcoming changes (cough, cough, leak: Bloggers Unite will be doing a major overhaul in the very near future) and generally be exposed to a different side of the blogging world. It really does help to expand your blogosphere horizons.
@Andy Bailey – commentluv never seems to work for me. Works for my commentors though so that’s what’s important. I hear godaddy servers almost always has issues with commentluv which is who I use. Any suggestions?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
That’s so dope about the ad network and company CEO’s being so down to earth, that’s what makes stuff like this so exciting. I really want to make it out to something, maybe once or twice a year. Until I get it like you…then I can go whenever I wish!
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September 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I cannot wait to attend these conferences. I’ll be the guy taking photos of you all
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Welcome to the site Nathan! I’ll be trying to snap photos of any and everyone I can! I would really love to make it out to one and meet all the folks I run into throughout the blogsphere.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
LMAO@ the “f google” t-shirt!
I would love to buy one of those!
Ay Joe,
You have to wear that t-shirt at least once in your videos man! Sounds like BlogWorld was a hit!
Thanks for sharing with us Jeni!
And next time rub Darren’s head!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Man, I told her to rub his head! That’s instant adsense mojo right there! But, she has some good adsense mojo herself, that’s probably why she refrained.
I will wear the shirt…if it’s family friendly 
If it actually spells out the word then…well….I wanna keep the show PG lol
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September 23rd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I think your wp-thread-comment is interferring with commentluv as they both do something with the comment area. There might be a solution but I wont be able to work on it until tomorrow.
sorry about this, I tested with every ajax and javascript include I could and got it working ok with brians threaded comments so I assumed it work with other threaded comment plugins. I’ll let you know as soon as I find out how to fix it so it can work here too.
@BrillianJeni: I never saw any godaddy issues, my guess it is because they don’t allow cURL or external access with php. I have written a new version which takes out the need for cURL and (apart from here!) works well. I’ll be phasing out the older versions one by one because my server gets a call every time a comment gets submitted and that includes the 100 per hour spammers comments which is not ideal. The new one takes care of most of that by only showing with javascript so most bots can’t see it and has a membership site with it to speed up responses and cache feeds for registered users
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Thanks Andy! That’s what I call service! I assumed it had maybe something to do with that, or comment remix, but wasn’t sure! Glad to know you’re working on a fix! Lemme know when you come up with something.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Next year all you fools need to keep an eye out for me! I will be dressed in full drag with headphones on and a backpack full of steaming hot sammiches for your hungry mouths.
I also plan to bring my linoleum in case anyone wants to have a b-boy session. Yeah, you guys heard right…
For real, lol, great interview. Jeni is awesome.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Hahahahaha, I’ll be looking forward to it E
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September 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
You know with everyone doing their writeup’s of Blog World I feel like I was there! Appreciate the work you put into keeping those of us unable to attend in the loop.
Matt
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Yeah man, it’s so cool. Jeni gets out to a lot of places, so we’ll keep you updated with the happenings wherever she is at. Welcome to the site Matt! I look forward to seeing you around here.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
So, its on then? We’re all meeting up there next year?
Great interview!
@Jeni: Shy? Jeni, you didn’t sound shy at all!? Wait….was this call coming from your hotel room? Did you chug back a few “tiny bottles” from the mini-bar 20 minutes before the interview?
LMAO@ forgetting to introduce yourself (your name) to John Chow. That’s something I would do while I was cutting him off in the middle of his sentences with my own ramblings. The difference is, you can get away with it, cause you’re brilliant. I’d have to wait until the following year to try and make up for it.
You sounded like you were smiling the entire time and it was enjoyable to listen to.
Cheers!
Jay
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
It’s on! Yeah ma…Jeni was all like ” I’m shy Joe…” I’m like girl…quit trippin, it’ll be natural, just like two friends talking on the phone. Yeah…you probably wouldn’t know that was our first time speaking on the phone! I felt like we had been talking to each other for years lol…just let it roll.
Jay, we’ll see what you do next year! Will you forget your name? I’m betting yes.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
@Normal Joe – I was thinking of writing “Hi My Name Is Jay” on my fo’heeeeeead! That way I won’t NEED to remember. It would just be a bonus if I did.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 5:24 am
yeah, that freakin fo head is like a billboard yo! How much for some space on that sum bee?
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September 24th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Thanks for the kind words guys! I just weaseled a post-closed-registration invite from Josh Hallett, the Blog Orlando man himself, so it looks like I’ll definitely be heading to Blog Orlando 2008 this Thursday. Apparently last year there were only 90ish people there- this year, 300+. I’m thinking they must have some pretty great speakers and topics to more than triple their attendance in a year! Really looking forward to sharing the experience.
@Luis Gross – Make Money Online – Luis, you can have my F’ Google shirt. Just shoot me an email and I’ll be happy to send it to you. jeni@brilliantjeni
Joe- you can totally wear the shirt in a video- it really does say, “Woopra” and “F’ Google” just like that. Saved by the ‘
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Looks like we’ll be havin another installment of the Joe and Ginny show
I told yall she be all over the place! Yall will see my shirt on some future IMwithJoe Video goodness
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September 24th, 2008 at 12:35 am
@SuiteJ – No joke, I was about to add a “btw- where the h**l is SuiteJ and why isn’t he here making fun of me! Glad you liked the ‘view. I really was nervous but Joe had me cracking up so hard, I’m sure next time I’ll be more relaxed- with or without the mini bar! lol
Yeah, can you believe that John Chow meeting? I take comfort in the fact that I’ll be laughing telling that story for 30 years… “Why, the first time I met John Chow, I talked to him for 15 minutes and never told him my name…” lmao
When we meet up at Blog World next year, Joe will be wearing his “F’ Google” wear, and I’ll bring you an “I’m SuiteJ” t-shirt so you don’t have to write your name on your forehead.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, can’t wait!
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September 24th, 2008 at 5:04 am
@joe: I have downloaded thread comments, comment remix and other ajax’y plugins to try and replicate the problem you are having here but I can’t!!
I have updated the plugin to try and do the fetch of post if there is a url field populated at display time (if you use cookies or it is autofilled by the users browser) and added another event to a blur of the url field as well as a focus event on the text area.
because I can’t replicate the problem you are having here, I can’t say with certainty that it will fix the problem but I’m pretty sure that it might (maybe) possibly
the update should appear on your dashboard as a plugin needing updating soon. Please let me know if you get an issues with it
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Thanks for takin a look at it Andy, I’ll see what happens with the update. It could just be all my theme hacking!
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:01 am
hahaha, I don’t believe it!! I just had a flash of inspiration and checked your source, it seems you have two things with the id = comment
just before your form code in your theme is a H3 with id=”comment” in it, that’s why it wont trigger!! there can only be one object with an ID called comment.
if you change the html in your comments.php file to use a different ID value for the H3 tag (<h3 id=”comment”>Leave a Replay</h3>) or you can change your commentluv settings page to use the name value for the comment text area instead (set to Name in the pull down box for the comment text area)
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Cool, if I change the option in commentluv, to name, do I need to change the word comment to name in the box to the right of the drop down?
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:21 am
no, just choose the type as name in the pull down box, you can leave the value the same
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 7:24 am
hmmm, I tried that, didn’t seem to work lol.
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:36 am
perfect!
Checkout Andy Baileys last blog post..CommentLuv Update by popular demand!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Cool, not sure if it happened when I just did the update, or by changed the ID to name, but, I see that sum bee in action now!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I wonder if it works on threaded posts now? And, should it pull in my posts as well? It doesn’t really matter for me on my own blot, but I just want to make sure it’s working for others.
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September 24th, 2008 at 10:14 am
it wont add your posts because you’re logged in as admin and I thought it would be better to leave the admin from having a last post shown because the blog you’re commenting on has it already. if you want to change the style of the box under each comment, this should suit here..
background-color:#f2f2f2; border: 2px solid #e2e2e2; display:block; font-weight: normal; padding: 5px;
Checkout Andy Baileys last blog post..CommentLuv Update by popular demand!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Thanks dude! You are the man! Thanks for all the help. Now I see where I can mess with the display, good stuff man. Yeah, I don’t need my posts to show up, just checking to make sure it wasn’t an issue with threaded comments.
see ya Andy!
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September 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Hey Normal Joe,
I just listened to your BlogWorld Expo 2008 podcast interview with BriJeni. Nice job Joe!
I was ‘the video guy’ at BlogWorld Expo 2008.
This is how it happened. I Twittered to find a pass to BlogWorld Expo, and nothing, nothing, nothing! Then I saw Dave_BlogWorld and tweeted him. He asked me what I could offer. (I did not know they were not planning any formal videography at the event, and I knew who would be there…)
I offered my videography services for the whole three days, no charge so he agreed and gave me an all access pass to the event!
Of course I was working the whole time, up at 5;00 am, at the LVCC by 7:00 to slam a triple-shot grande latte and a bagel, before the first session to session with my hand-truck packed with video gear, and during the Saturday Super Panel, with John Chow, Shoemoney, Darren Rowse, Zac Johnson, I won a seat at the Market Leverage dinner at Envy steakhouse!
I posted some some photos of the Market Leverage dinner with John Chow and the other attendees, and my humble newbie blogger self of three months here:
http://donotreadthisblogunless.blogspot.com/
One photo captures the group after dinner, I’m the guy between Zac Johnson and Darren Rowse in the dark black shirt with my stomach full of Kobe beef, salad, lobster macaroni ( is that legal? ) and chocolate mousse.
The other photo is myself with John Chow, and the ‘Market Leverage Cashinator’ cash competition that Tyler Cruz won. There was a $100.00 bill on top, and the rest were $1.00!
Brilliant Jeni did a fine job of covering the event, I enjoyed your interview with her from BlogWorld Expo. Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Timothy Ferris were so very accessible. All of the panelists took time to speak with me after the speeches, and the overall atmosphere was very interactive.
Bloggers giving back to bloggers.! Now another great thing happenned, I received an Unlimited Platinum pass to Affiliate Summit in January 2009. Talk about the right place at the right time!
Back home, writing my seven blogs and building my web empire.
Respectfully, Nicholas – future Super Affiliate and nice guy to bloggers
Checkout Nicholas Chase – ‘The BlogWorld Expo video guy’s last blog post..BlogWorld Expo 2008 in Las Vegas! My dinner with Shoemoney and John Chow!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hey Nicholas! Thanks for stopping by dude! That is an awesome story man! Crazy, crazy, crazy! That’s good stuff man, I know you’ve got some stories man lol. Hope to see ya around the blog man, I’m gonna go see your pics now!
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September 24th, 2008 at 10:59 am
@Nicholas Chase – ‘The BlogWorld Expo video guy’ – Ahhh so there’s the man whose camera I was ducking under to sneak into Friday’s keynote!
Glad you liked the interview and now bummed I didn’t get to meet you while there. Any chance you will be a Blog Orlando?
Great photos and coverage of the event yourself! I’m loving them and I’ll definitely be adding a link to send my readers over to gawk at John Chow holding all that not-quite-so-hard-earned money!
Checkout BrilliantJENIs last blog post..My Blog World Interview with NormalJoe from Imwithjoe.com
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 25th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Crazy man…I’m there next year, it’s going down! I have to
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September 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Great chat man. I actually checked out Jeni’s blog as I was hearing the broadcast and I really like what she has going on. Its good to hear that she got to meet some of the top bloggers and thats what these events are all about — Networking.
I think I’d like to see such interviews time and time again because it was so casual and made it that much more interesting because of the way you conducted it. It was casual and honest. Good stuff.
Checkout Enkay Blogs last blog post..Whats Have You Been Upto?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Yeah man, that’s how we roll. This will be a regular show, wherever she goes, we’ll be talking! It’s also a taste of how ifthisblogcouldtalk will be, and yeah, me and you need to do an interview for that site. Glad you liked it man, Jeni is cool.
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September 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hi Joe, thank you for the props on my gig at BlogWorld Expo. I saw BriJent walking around but was buried deep in my ‘production-values’ videography world.
Here are a few of my other blogs, ( I am migrating them to WordPress on my own domain soon, more pro I know..). Please link back and tell a friend?
The iPod Review Blog
http://theipodreviewblog.blogspot.com/
The Way To Success Blog – Affiliate Marketing progress
http://donotreadthisblogunless.blogspot.com/
The Dieting and Weight Loss Blog
http://dietingandweightlossblog.blogspot.com/
The Debt Blog
http://wwwthedebtblog.blogspot.com/
The Guitar Blog
http://nachase.wordpress.com/
The Guitar HubPage
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Breedlove-12-String-Acoustic-Guitar
The Hub Pages Blog
http://nicholas-thehubpagesblog.blogspot.com/
I’m going to suffer severe financial meltdown in December 2008 if I cannot get some income from all these monetized blogs etc. PPC is out of the question, credit cards maxed out for click-budget expenses.
My senior technical project manager, and senior systems design engineering work has evaporated with the reductions in captial expenditures by my former clients, Sony, Ascent Media, Disney, Warner Brothers Studios, and most of the post-production houses are facing the Actor’s Strike as a huge impact on productions coming in.
Tryinging some writing for pay, HubPages.com, eZine articles, new product announcements, but need more than a trickle of income.
You have a cool blog, and loved the PodCasting, keep it coming!
Respectfully, Nicholas – ‘the video guy’ at BlogWorld Expo 2008
Checkout Nicholas Chases last blog post..My Dinner with John Chow and Shoemoney!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
No doubt man, good deal and must have been fun. I’m sure you’ll be able to make some moves and get done what you are working towards, looks like you have quite a few properties man so….work them sum bees!
See ya around.
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October 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Team-building and communication-providing events such as BlogWorld Expo provide people that would normally talk to one another through a single method with another way to send their messages. Face-to-face interaction has value which can be only be acquired by performing it.
Checkout Armen Shirvanians last blog post..Quality Builds On Itself
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
October 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I agree man, live networking is 1 hundred times more valuable than anything you can do online and provides the breeding ground for future success.
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November 13th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
All those great bloggers in one spot would of been fun to see. Too bad they don’t a have a Canadian version.
Hey Joe I found you from Garry Conn’s site and I will be heading over to brilliantJeni.com after this. Blog comments are great for networking.
Steve
Checkout steve@weightlossweapons.coms last blog post..Portion Control – How much are you eating?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 14th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Welcome to the site steve! Glad you liked it…make sure to come back!
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December 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I have been to such kinda meet once. And must accept that u get to learn a lot, loads of information to listen and apply.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 28th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I think they are good situations, networking can do wonders for your business.
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