Small Business Social Media Summit

Debworks and G2 Web Media announce the Small Business Social Media Summit to occur June 5 and June 6, 2010 in Hutchinson, Kansas.  This summit is designed specifically for small businesses to identify social media avenues (like Facebook, twitter, blogging), how to use them and walk away with a plan for their business.  Hutchinson Kansas…

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Bringing the best

It’s an exciting time for a geeky girl to be in small town America – things are changing. People are curious, they want to know things.

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The Virtual Meets the Concrete

Last year I attended SobCon09 – and met many of the people I’d previously only had conversations with on twitter.  Successful Outstanding Bloggers Conference – required to advance your business to the next level.  I hung out with some of the big name people – and that created avenues to stronger conversations over this past…

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Small Business Bloggers to Watch

They are not gurus, experts, mountain climbers or gods.  They are not suits in an office or geeks in tshirts in the basement.  They are real people, doing real work, in the real world. Jay Ehret Cody Heitschmidt Mary Lynn and George Krueger Kim Dushinski Becky McCray Grant Griffiths Justin Levy Deb Brown They were…

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Planning A Conference

I’m planning a Small Business Social Media Conference in June in the Kansas City area. You’d think it would be fairly easy to plan something like this. Decide the dates, find a location, book the speakers, get sponsors on board and put the word out. The speaker part was the easiest – and I’m happy…

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Bio from a time long ago

DEBRA ‘WIZ’ BROWN Citizen of World The basic premise you must begin with is, life is an ontological* process.  One things leads to another.  Having survived the human war for the past 46 years, I am now qualified to talk and teach about those things I learned in  that war. I stepped into the technological world…

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Simon Estes in Franklin County

Simon Estes is coming to our town.  That’s right, Hampton Iowa – is hosting two days of Simon Estes in residency. It gets better – Simon is conducting a 99 county tour of Iowa.  Franklin County (my county) is the inaugural county.  The rest of the counties are looking to us to set the pace,…

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Mark Your Calendars

I’m planning an event, along with some business partners.  June 5 and June 6 in Kansas City. Two weeks ago I read about an event in Kansas and got all excited about it.  Then I realized the marketing for the event did not really match what was happening.  I started to get ticked off —…

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Lasting Impressions

Yesterday I talked about what my tattoo looks like. Now, how did I choose who would do my tattoo? The most common way people choose their artist is by word of mouth. You’ve seen someone’s tattoo and really like it. That held true for me as well. My neice has a tattoo I really like…

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Does Controversy Work?

Probably the most controversial speaker at SOBCon09 was Lauren Freedman. She professed to having no real social media skills, refused to answer questions during her presentation, said she was usually home with her child during this time – and stated a lot of facts and figures. It was the presentation that made the biggest difference…

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