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Web 2.0 for Event Promotion

How do you leverage a the Web and Internet marketing to promote your upcoming event? There are so many channels of distribution, the possibilities are almost endless. Here's a checklist of what I did to promote an upcoming workshop I'm teaching at flyte called "How to Plan, Build and Promote a Business Blog."

Two Billionth Photo Finds Its Way To Flickr

Some people have their bookshelves lined with photo album upon photo album, and I find that quite impressive.  Flickr’s got ‘em beat, though, as the photo-sharing site recently received its two billionth upload.

Gmail Code Hints At Upcoming Features

Ionut Alex found evidence in the source code for the newest version of Gmail that hints at features we may be receiving soon. He found code for Jabber transports, which would allow contacting people from other instant messaging networks over Google Talk/Chat’s Jabber connection, which makes sense given the fact that Gmail’s new contact manager asks for Yahoo, MSN and AIM usernames now.

Pitching Speakers for a Conference or Event

I've been helping program the search marketing sessions for MediaPost's upcoming OMMA event in September, and the first stage of it is reviewing dozens of conference pitches. Overall, it's a promising bunch of proposals, and my biggest regret is that there are only six sessions I'm responsible for; I could easily have picked ten great ones, and I'll still try to pawn some of the rejected panels to other programming chairs if they can be adapted.

Gmail Previews PowerPoint Files

Gmail added a new feature last week: a PowerPoint viewer. Now, if someone emails you a PowerPoint presentation (.PPT or .PPS file) as an email attachment, you can click a View As HTML or View As Slideshow link to view that file in your web browser. Presumably, this takes advantage of features developed for Google Docs’ upcoming Google Presentations software, which is supposed to release sometime this summer, or even uses some of the tech acquired from Tonic Systems earlier this year.

Upcoming.Org Now Upcoming With Yahoo Local

The social event tracking site has been transitioned to Yahoo's Local platform as the company brings Upcoming closer to its other products.

Ad Exchange Market Heats Up

It hasn’t been a secret in the industry that Doubleclick is working on an ad exchange that’s something along the lines of what we do at Right Media.

The Easiest Blog Marketing Opportunity Ever

Photography has been a passion of mine for a very long time.  When I was younger, I had considered having a career as a photojournalist, but over time that slowly morphed into just a passionate hobby. 

Companies and Marketing 2.0

Just saw on Twitter that Emily Chang had posted about RSS feeds for archiving your own personal history.

Digg Experts

While keeping informed and up to date about what is being written about Digg over the past several months I have come across a lot of information that really isn't that insightful or in some cases is even just plain wrong.