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If you'd like to weigh in on what the space should look like, what we should include, etc., I'd love your feedback. Below are the very basic notes thrown together for the space planner along with a couple of pics... you'll notice I've opened this up as a wiki so go ahead and click "edit" to add your thoughts.

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I'll be in San Francisco next week and speaking on a panel moderated by CNet's Dan Farber at Building Blocks 2006 along with imeem's Steve Jang, meebo's Seth Sternberg, and Gather.com's Thomas Grace. Here are the details:

Building Blocks 2006
August 15-17, 2006
Marriott San Jose Hotel
301 South Market St., San Jose, California
Session: Blogs, Mashups, Social Media, Wikis, and RSS as Mass Media - Blog Movements as Agents of Change
Session Time: Thursday, August 17 from 11:05 to 12:20 PM

The title is a mouthful and seems pretty broad so I'm interested in your thoughts/take... go ahead and post them as comments.

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(Via Jeff Jarvis) An article in Sunday's New York Times put the call out to CEOs to start blogging.

While there are a couple of good points convered in the article, it is once again another example of how the delta between what is being written about corporate blogging and how we are seeing companies actually use blogs is huge...

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I hate blog posts where the writer apologizes for not posting their blog in a while - you see them too often and I had vowed never to write one here.

Turns out I was using the Canadian definition for "never" which is "not very often"; a metric never, if you will. Business Blogwire's Easton Ellsworth has called me out...

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On the heels of a successful RSS Roundtable dinner, I will be joining Pheedo, PRWeb and SilverPop in hosting a meeting in New York May 16th during the Syndicate Conference. The focus this time around will be more on the technology side of RSS...

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Today we announced a partnership with NewsGator that will make it easier for our customers to consume all the content being created by our platform as well as giving them exciting ways to both tap into, and syndicate across, NewsGator's network. NewsGator also announced the next generation of their Private Label platform today that includes hooks to our Customer Conversation System.

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Forrester Research continues to do a great job in helping organizations understand how they can leverage social media to address business issues. They are hosting another bootcamp next month (May 11^th) called "Blogging Fundamentals: Building a Business Strategy" that will be time well spent for anyone trying to get their head around developing a corporate blogging strategy. The agenda and registration information is here...

I'll be in town and on the end of day panel that will cover some best practices in enterprise blogging so if anyone would like to connect in Boston, let me know.

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Pheedo, PRWeb and iUpload are sponsoring an RSS Industry Roundtable coinciding with Ad:Tech San Francisco on April 27th. The roundtable aims to assemble a group of the top thought leaders in the RSS industry to discuss key topics that challenge all of us in RSS Advertising. This group will span the disciplines of RSS advertising, RSS manufacture, RSS aggregators and readers, and RSS purveyors and luminaries.

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"The "Red Herring 100 North America" award is an important part of Red Herring's tradition of recognizing new and innovative technology firms and their entrepreneurial founders. The over 1,000 nominees were rigidly evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. This unique assessment of potential complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company allows Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry."

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I'll be on a panel at Forrester's upcoming Social Computing Bootcamp in Boston next week (details are at: http://www.forrester.com/Events/Overview/0,,1192,00.html). I'm also
planning on attending Charlene Li's proposed meet up the night before (Wednesday, March 15th at 7pm at the Cambridge Brewing Company ). If any Bostonians would like to connect there, just let Charlene know by dropping a comment here so the resturant can get a rough count on numbers.

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