The meeting was conducted from 2-4PM on Friday at the Business Success Center (the BSC in the group name) with attendees representing many parts of the business world – finance, art, consulting, training, etc.
Nine people showed up and discussed their blogs, blogging efforts, and asked very interesting questions. This not be an attempt at answering those questions but will be a teaser to those of you who did not attend which will perhaps bring you out to the next meeting.
Jan Triplett, COO of Business Success Center talked about her blog as well as moderating the meeting and trying valiantly to keep us all on topic. She revealed that as a new blogger she has had to learn a new way of written communication which is less formal than what she was taught in school and early business life.
Howie Richey, tour guide extraordinaire and owner of TexPert Tours discussed his efforts to impart his love of Texas history to various audiences.
Sam Thacker at Allbusiness.com aired concerns regarding article lengths, ways of promoting a larger following.
Jeff Mitzel is just startiing to consider blogging and had many interesting observationss about the evolution of social media.
Gail Touschak writes about local business at her site. Her blog was set up for her by a professional firm and she would like to understand it better and how to use it more effectively.
Laura Faulkner’s presentations reflect her interest in open source software while Jamie Rood displays and discusses his art at http:jamierood.com
Julie Gomoll, not only discussed many interesting topics such as using an editorial calendar to help schedule and control blog creation efforts but introduced us to her use of an interesting site where she shows her best Flavors.me/juliegomoll
