Saturday I spent the day with a couple hundred web developers, designers, publishers and blogging enthusiasts at an event called WordCamp OC. This the fourth annual WordCamp Orange County, and the eleventh WordCamp I’ve participated in. What is WordCamp? I shared my plans for WordCamp with one of my hiking friends, Paul. He reasoned, “Oh, […]
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Brian Solis is MUCH Taller Online
Author and analyst Brian Solis was in Orange County yesterday, speaking about The End of Business As Usual, how the consumer marketplace is changing, and how you can adapt the way you work to lead in this new marketplace. Let me just get this out-of-the-way: Brian Solis is indeed much taller online. It’s fair to say […]
Why Face to Face Still Matters in Social Media
Last month, I shared how face-to-face meetings still matter. You might assume that the realm of social media — which by it’s very definition encourages online community and relationship building — wouldn’t really gain much through real life interaction. You’d be dead wrong. Social Media in the Real OC Here in Orange County we are […]