Central Oregon Blogger Meet-up! The first blogger meetup was a big success! This event is primarily intended for bloggers who wish to meet other bloggers. Tags: meet up Bend Bloggers Jen Blackledge, COWPU Web Mistress, said it best. or leave a comment, or email me at jenblackledge at gmail.com. I'll see you there!

Today's Diva Marketing Talks with Susan Getgood , Roadmaps (blog) and Getgood Strategic Marketing and Liz Gumbinner , Cool Mom Picks and Moms 101 about how to build successful and respectful blogger relationships programs. Blogger Relations, as other social media strategies, have grown in complexity. 30-minutes. 2-guests.

So I won’t pretend that my annual list of the top cause-related marketing campaigns is exhaustive.But, like any other self-respecting blogger, Tags: Munchkin BoxTops for Education St. Yeah, You Read it Right. And, frankly, I don’t see very many campaigns from outside North America.

I'm honored to be among the first fourteen blogs chosen for the new A-List Bloggers network. If you or someone you know is interested in blogs, but doesn't have the time or the energy to track down posts, the A-List Bloggers network is the perfect solution. Add in a splash of Acronym , and you'll have the lay of the land in no time

Social media are POWERFUL because they enable LOTS of people (at last count Technorati, a popular blogging search engine, noted that there were over 100,000,000 bloggers in the "blogosphere") to tell their stories, market products, frame or re-frame social issues, raise money - in short, engage in all sorts of communication on all sorts of issues.

Listening to, what went beyond the sentiments of "just" a few thousand bloggers or tweeters, but perhaps reflected a signification segment of Motrin's target audience, may have saved the company some hefty dollars in terms of ultimate goodwill and stopped the ooze of brand erosion before it could spread further online and off.

Tags: Web Blogger Flickr social media Google Docs Volunteering Twitter WordPress TypePad nonprofits

[Blogger’s note: This is the first of a two-part post on Chili’s Create a Pepper promotion benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The campaign is notable because it has grown approximately 400 percent since going national in 2004. How did they do it? Read on.]The Jude Olive Garden Jim Cramer Chili's Create-A-Pepper

Last September, at the request of San Francisco blogger Gayle Roberts, I posted my predictions on the future of cause-related marketing. With the coming of the New Year it makes sense to re-release this post.I have a spotty record predicting the future. bought a Zip drive about a week before the first USB drive came out.

We were taught our first lessons in blogger relations by TDavid. Lessons Learned from TDavid One blogger can be the snowflake that can start an avalanche. TDavid >Bloggers are people who want to connect. Bloggers care. At that session we were joined by Robert Scoble, Ben McConnell and Dave Williams. Make that clear.