Jan 14 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR
A happy and healthy New Year to all!
Well after two plus weeks of vacation plus a week of getting caught up on work and some traveling — things are finally getting back to “normal.” I haven’t had the opportunity to post like I had planned despite a well intentioned New Year’s resolution. Mostly because there are so many things going on that I haven’t had the ability to focus on any one thing long enough to complete it. Things are finally getting better as these past few days it’s all started coming together!
Last Thursday I was in Boston at the invitation of Laura Fitton (aka Pistachio) to be a part of the Boston SMC/PRSA event at Bentley College. As you could imagine, I was on a panel discussion about post 2.0 communications. With me on the panel were Laura, Ian Lamont of COMPUTERWORLD, Lois Kelly of Foghound Communication and our moderator C.C.Chapman.
After the panel we held “break outs” on various topics like Twitter, Social Networking, Podcasting, blogging and blogger relations, etc. The audience was incredibly participative and they asked a lot of good questions. You gotta love that! Plus the best part of the event was that I made some great new friends in the process – Susan Getgood of GetGood Strategic Marketing & Doug Haslum & Todd Van Hoosear of Topaz Partners.
I want to thank everyone from the Boston chapter of the Social Media Club and the Boston PRSA for making me feel so welcome and including me in your program. Thank You!
Mike,
It was great to meet you as well. Thouh I saw you at the SNCR symposium, I was glad to have the chance to talk with you about — well, I think we covered a lot that evening, didn’t we?
Cheers and hope to see you again soon,
Doug Haslam
Mike, it was great to meet you as well and you certainly brought a ton of great energy and points to the panel. I hope our paths cross again soon and if there is anything I can ever do to help you out let me know.
What Doug said
Seriously, it was great to meet you and hear what SAP is doing in social media. As I said Thursday, it’s important for people to learn that big, ginourmous companies can successfully engage without compromising fiduciary responsibility etc etc. Look forward to seeing the evolution of your blogs, and hope to see you at NewComm in April.
Doug, C.C., and Susan,
I look forward to meeting up with all of you again in person as well as virtually. It certainly was my pleasure and I’d be happy to attend again. You have a really great group of members (the combined PRSA and SMC.)
You all ROCK!
Susan, I’m going to do my best to go to NewComm. Its a tough time to get away with our biggest event SAPPHIRE happening on May 4-7 but, I should be there!