Bill Balderaz, President of Webbed Marketing, is a Social Media rock star! I sat in on his session at PodCampOhio, Strategies for blogging, podcasting and social network marketing — and even tried to stream it via Qik but only got seconds of it! You should check out his session if at all possible — I don’t know who else recorded it — I only got one minute :(:

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I spent my weekend hanging out with the most passionate social media mavens ever, from PodCamp here in Hilliard, Ohio. There were just some of the blog mentions I have found so far about PodCampOhio  — I will try to look around a little bit more and I will post again when I find more stuff.

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McKinsey posted a report on the results of a survey they recently took of marketing executives. It’s called How Companies are Marketing Online. The report may not have earth shattering findings, but it does offer some key insights into the future if you read between the lines.Three things stood out in my opinion. Read more…

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CC Chapman and I have become chums since we do similar work and have similar interest. Heck, we even pitched together, as AHLLC does some cool work on behalf of crayon. Oh, and because we’re both cool dudes. According to a recent post on his blog, CC says, “I’m Done Coloring,” which means he has moved out of Crayonville:

“There comes times in of our lives when we have to make big decisions. Last weekend, I made one of my biggest when I called up Joseph and resigned from crayon. It is something that I have been thinking about for a few months and I decided that it was the right time to make a move.” Via CC Chapman

CC is talented in so many and sundry ways he dizzies me. He has 48-hours to every 24-hours I have in a day. And he knows, and is admired by, everybody. I am looking to forward to seeing what Mr. Chapman does next.

I have never heard Fair Game with Faith Salie before. Until now. It feels  directly influenced by the informal, playful,  irreverent style of podcasting, yet another example of how new media, the culture of the blog and the podcast is influencing mainstream media. Read more…