David Dalka attends and reports business events and conferences to discover the future of business where technology, organizations and customer exeperience meet. Also serves as emcee, moderator and motivational business keynote speaker.
It was such a great pleasure to see my good friend Jason Jacobsohn at the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Center holiday party last night. That community does so many positive and good things and I’m glad I know many of them well.
He also launched a new blog this week, “Networking Insight” this week which I encourage you to check out. He did a good job of thinking about the blog before launching it – I’m sure he’d love to get your thoughts, encouragement and ideas.
Techcrunch is reporting that Digg will add podcasting and other new features today on it’s 2nd birthday. Happy Birthday Digg!
My only concern is that since podcasting has a higher rate of “user-generated” content, wouldn’t this category be more susceptible to gaming?
Robert Scoble had an interesting post on this issue. I’ve got to ask one question though Robert! In Naked Conversations, Robert talks about how you should point to your competitors and even talking positively about them. How is a likely non-relevant ad on a map on your web site more of a threat than you saying “company x does well with blah-blah”? I don’t get the logic here, am I missing something?
Neil Patel responded to Andy Beal’s call out to learn about “5 things you don’t know”. I’ll add something you don’t know about Neil Patel. Since I think we are up to #6, I get to do #7!!!
7) Neil drank while underage at a Google party in Chicago in 2005 that he wasn’t even invited to! (you got to love the resourcefulness)
OK, I know a few other things, but I’m not telling!
Last week, I talked about how duplicate content was a big issue at the SES Chicago conference.
Robert Scoble is up in arms about how some of this is handled. How is this splogger monetizing his traffic? Adsense does not appear present which can be a root cause.
I disagree with Robert that filtering and retooling web search for every new type of splog is the way to go. I do think that finding and cutting off monetization methods is the best long-term solutions. This, of course, will not be easy.
UPDATE: Someone pointed out that this splog is a linking authority splog, interesting concept.
Some of you may find my recent article, “How to Become a Conference and Networking Influencer“. Includes quotes from Jeffery Meshel and Keith Ferrazzi. If you have other tips you’d like to add, please leave a comment, I’m sure others would like to hear them.
Stephan Spencer wrote this nice post a hile back on how to increase your blog traffic.