Rebecca Bollwitt aka Miss604
Rebecca, for those who don’t know her, is not only a brilliant and savvy tech-social media mavens, but one of Vancouver’s most recognized and well-known bloggers.
The question then is how did she do it? It was a combination of hard work and talent, of course. I live-blogged the session with CoverItLive and you can watch the replay below or the scrollable version farther down the page.
Rebecca has the links to the sites she mentioned in her talk (that I couldn’t type-hear-grok fast enough):
Links to some items I quoted: # State of the Blogosphere – 2008 # Personal Brand – Micah Baldwin # How to Blog – Tony Pierce
link: My Third Tuesday Talk Recap » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
Raul took some awesome notes and has those in his post:Rebecca Bollwitt (Miss604) on branding: Third Tuesday recap « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment
Tanya said that the next Third Tuesday (since it will be in late Dec) will be more informal and more networking, having fun.
| Third Tuesday Vancouver: Miss604 Building Your Personal Brand | (11/18/2008) Powered by: CoveritLive |
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Tris Hussey: Here we go .. Rebecca (aka Miss604) Bollwitt is starting to talk about how she built her personal brand. |
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7:22
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Tris Hussey: Wow Rebecca has been doing this since the Web 1.0 world and even had a Blogspot blog (didn’t we all) |
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7:24
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Tris Hussey: Right now Rebecca is cover the basics we know like starting your blog, what to write about and why. Yes we’re all passionate about something, and this is why most of us got started. |
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7:25
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Tris Hussey: Parenthetical note: I forgot how hard this was! Now I know why I like Live Tweeting! |
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7:26
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Tris Hussey: Going to add twitter streams as soon as I figure out how … |
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How many social networks are you a part of?
Meh none ( 0% )
Couple ( 0% )
A Few ( 0% )
Lost count ( 100% )
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7:28
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[Comment From Tod] Anyone live videophoning this? |
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7:28
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Tris Hussey: Cross posting from the NowPublic, etc … make sure people know where your home base is |
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7:28
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Tris Hussey: Live no … sorry Tod |
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7:30
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Tris Hussey: What makes a successful blog? Personal satisfaction … links … |
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7:30
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Tris Hussey: How much to post? Technorati’s top 100 publishes 10+ posts a day. Rebecca’s record is 8 posts in one day … heck I’ve done 10-12 easy |
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7:31
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Tris Hussey: Make sure you respond to all the comments… |
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7:31
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Tris Hussey: Have a contact form… |
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7:31
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Tris Hussey: All of this is to build and incr. user engagement…polls, quizes, games, etc. |
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7:32
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 johnchowdotcom: Number 1 reward for blogging according to Technrati is personal satifaction. See! Not everyone blogs for money! |
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7:32
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Tris Hussey: Tanya’s (Netchick) mid-week social game… www.netchick.net |
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7:33
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Tris Hussey: Motrin? What Motrin? The Motrin Scandal … yeah this is why you don’t launch on Fridays. Make sure you track and follow the conversation |
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7:34
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Tris Hussey: LOL Rebecca owns miss604sucks.com … make sure you own even the negative conversation! |
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7:35
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Tris Hussey: Adding more Twitter ids to the stream @scales and @laravarona and @johnchowdotcom keep tweeting! |
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7:37
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Tris Hussey: Rebecca gives a shout out to to Micah Baldwin (Mee-ha) … |
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7:38
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Tris Hussey: Whoah, Rebecca’s blogfather isn’t Darren Barefoot. … gotta get that link from her. |
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7:38
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Tris Hussey: Folks you can answer the polls and comment, really… |
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7:39
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johnchowdotcom: You need to be proud of who you are and what you’ve written to build a personal brand. |
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7:40
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Tris Hussey: You own and are responsible for what goes on your blog. Link like crazy … “linking is what separates bloggers from apes”… |
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7:41
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johnchowdotcom: Linking is what separates bloggers from apes. |
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7:41
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Tris Hussey: Say it do it … be proud of waht you’re you’re writing |
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7:41
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Tris Hussey: Note to CoverItLive … OMG the Twitter pull ROCKS! |
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7:43
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Tris Hussey: What is the difference-separation between online ID and reputation … yeah we all have boundaries and you should only let out what you feel comfortable the world knowing. Remember, Google never forgets… |
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7:46
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Tris Hussey: Rebecca is Raul’s Blogging Jedi Master … Transparency and full disclosure … ads or not, sponsorships or not. Own your brand. Blog only when you want to. Blogging when you’re tired or don’t want to … well those posts suck. Really. |
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7:48
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Tris Hussey: WIred’s article: “Blogging is dead…” At the last conference there was a lot less live blogging and more tweets … but after the conference it was the Google searches for the conference that paid off. |
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7:49
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Tris Hussey: Build your brand by being out there and giving attention to others … link love. … Linking, comments, SEO, being present … all essential to building your brand. |
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7:50
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Tris Hussey: ”Don’t feed the trolls!” Trolls, spammers, and sock puppets. … just ignore the vermin. |
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7:52
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Tris Hussey: ”Are companies going on Twitter, devaluing Twitter?” … Just like companies online, it’s how it’s done. “Real tweets” should out number links by a lot… |
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7:53
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johnchowdotcom: Q&A going on right now at the personal branding session. |
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7:54
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Tris Hussey: Ah how much is too much … being everywhere and everyplace … even if you don’t use it, snag the names regardless! Pownce, Jaiku, etc. Go where the people are.. |
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7:54
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johnchowdotcom: To all you bloggers at the personal branding session. You can’t have a brand if you don’t have your own domain name!!!!! |
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7:56
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trishussey: Whoops that was @johnchowdotcom …yes you must own your domain name! |
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7:57
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[Comment From GregEh] Rob Lewis and I were discussing Twitter today, he hadn’t registered an account yet, we checked and most all variations of his name were taken. |
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7:57
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Tris Hussey: Rebecca did an awesome job … more on Hummingbird604 |
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7:58
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johnchowdotcom: Look for @miss604 presentation blopper on johnchow.con |
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7:58
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Tris Hussey: K that’s a wrap folks… |
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7:59
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