Weekly Digest: Lorelle in Chicago at Conference, One of the Top 5 and 8, and Bloggers Becoming Customer Service Reps

The Weekly Digest from Lorelle on WordPress this week features news about me traveling to Chicago for the SOBCon07, the Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference May 11-12, 2007, with some of the hottest folks in blog building and interactivity on the planet presenting programs. I’ve also got news on some other hot topics about WordPress and blogging, as well as more “stuff” I’ve been up to lately.

Exciting Lorelle on WordPress News

Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference in Chicago Next Week: As mentioned, I’m in Chicago for the next week as part of the SOBCon07, the Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference, which I featured in Lorelle in Chicago Next Week and in my initial announcement of the conference. I also reviewed it in the Blog Herald with The Relationship Conference: Building Blogs Through Interaction article series. I’m looking forward to meeting all the great bloggers and speakers and will have a lot to report on next week.

WordCamp 2007 will be July 21-22 in San Francisco: There is an “unofficial WordCamp 2007 Upcoming Events page but the new official site is at http://2007.wordcamp.org/ and Matt says it will be at the same place as last year, the Swedish American Hall on Market Street, and that there may be a small fee for attendees, probably to help cover costs of the hall and event. This is the second annual meeting and WordPress users will be attending from all over the world, possibly even me. The turnout is expected to be at least double, if not triple, from last year’s event, so make sure you make arrangements as soon as possible.

One of the Eight Must Read Blogs for Pro Bloggers: Advertising and Blogging by Sponsored Reviews listed the “8 Must Read Blogs for Pro Bloggers” and included yours truly in the list of eight. I’m in great company with Problogger.net, Copyblogger, SEOMoz.org, Shoemoney, JohnChow.com, Pronet Advertising, and Performancing.com. Such a fantastic crowd of “must-be-in-your-feed-reader” list for little narrow-niche-me to be in. I’m really honored.

And much thanks goes to Rod Templeton and his “My Top 5 Required Feeds” where he says:

When you think of the WordPress community, there are probably not many who hadn’t heard of Lorelle. She’s an evangelist for WordPress in the same way that Robert Scoble was for Microsoft. And like the Scobleizer, she’s written about the things that she loves about WordPress, and also about the things that make her mad. Like her plugin series where she mentioned that she loves WordPress plugin designers, but sometimes she’d like to slap them upside the head. A better rep for the WordPress community would be hard to find.

Blush and much thanks!

What’s Happening with Lorelle on WordPress

This past week’s articles from Lorelle on WordPress included:

New Arrivals and Dispatches on Lorelle on WordPress

Essential Keystrokes – List of Favorite WordPress Resources and Healthy Web Design’s Ultimate WordPress Resource Guide both listed this blog as their first source for WordPress news and tips. Wow. Thanks.

Liz Strauss offers the SOB Business Cafe, a frequent listing of the best posts from those honored by her Successful and Outstanding Blogger (SOB) Award, and this week, she included Promoting Your Wares to Bloggers.

BlogHer’s Virginia DeBolt offered “What can you do if your blog content is stolen?”, featuring What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content and other related articles of mine on this issue. With the massive attention recently from Lifehacker’s coverage of that article, I’m thrilled that the word is getting out that everything on the net isn’t free. We work hard on our articles, videos, music, podcasts, photographs, images, and designs. We want the rewards that come with that hard work. If we want to make them free to use and abuse, we will, but ask first. Let’s bring some common courtesy as well as common sense back to the free-for-all-web-thinking.

My article on Are You Uncategorized? brought a lot of happy responses including from Storyteller’s World, Red Flog (German to English Translation), Blog News Watch, and many others who realized that they hadn’t been categorizing their post, or at least not categorizing them well. Have you?

Consumer Thoughts featured my popular post, How Not to Comment on Comments and added some great insights on how not to comment on blog comments, describing posts written about Burger King and a pizza place and how people commented on the post as if the author actually knew how to solve their problems or answer their questions when the post was just an editorial commentary. On Guinness World Book of Records and Other Blog Score Cards, an article I wrote a long time ago about the new rise in blog contests and competitions, I constantly get comments from people who want my help submitting some stupid human trick of theirs to Guinness World Record Book. How would I know how to do that? Huh? We bloggers know a lot, but we certainly don’t handle customer service requests for other companies.

The most popular destinations and recommendation from this blog elsewhere included:

Blog Herald Columns

This week, my daily columns on the Blog Herald include my weekly WordPress news from the past few weeks:

This week’s articles included:

Lorelle’s Linkworthy Links

Some of the fascinating bits and pieces I uncovered during the past week as I search for blogging and WordPress news include:

Content Theft: A Guide for Community Admins – Plagiarism Today has a fantastic guide for online administrators for Copyright Violations and protecting your online community, wiki, blog, etc.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune Takes Heat For Demoting Blogger – In a time when many reporters and celebs are taking the heat for their words, even though it’s their job, it’s interesting to see a blogging journalist get dropped by their newspaper only to have their blogging fans rally for them.
My Top 5 Successful Bloggers Who Made a Difference – Liz Strauss shares the top five successful bloggers who help change her life, not just her blogging experience.
BlogThis: PRWeb offers new social media tool for press releases – If you do press releases, you need to know about the changes in how press releases and announcements work as the PR market is evolving and changing really fast.
Trac: Making management of open source and commercial projects easier -If you need to track a project with a roadmap and timeline, why not use Trac which is used for many open-source and
Don’t Sweat the Small SEO Stuff – This is closer to the way I think about SEO today, not the old chase-every-opportunity methods. So much SEO is done for you automatically today, just have patience and it will work.
WordPress BankRoll Plugin – Sell Reviews From Your Blog – An interesting new way for your blog to become it’s own “pay-per-post” review blog where you get all the money.

Blasts From the Past

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9 Comments

Rod

Posted May 11, 2007 at 9:51 am | Permalink

And thank you very, very much for mentioning the post. Very much appreciated.

Char

Posted May 11, 2007 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

Lorelle,
Back when my blog was new I had a question about wordpress. I posted the question on my blog and you were kind enough to stop in and leave a comment and a solution – to someone you didn’t know and hadn’t heard of. For that I am forever grateful and you will always be #1 wordpress resource.

Lorelle VanFossen

Posted May 11, 2007 at 9:32 pm | Permalink

Char, thank you for your kind words. It really means a lot!

ricky

Posted May 14, 2007 at 12:27 am | Permalink

Hi i looking for wordpress for my new website. Thanx for more links of this.R.Rgds

Dawud Miracle

Posted May 14, 2007 at 3:56 am | Permalink

You got it right, Lorelle…you are the first resource for WordPress. And now more than ever. SOBCon was great. I loved meeting you.

Lorelle VanFossen

Posted May 14, 2007 at 8:10 am | Permalink

Ah, shucks. I loved talking to you and look forward to more. Wasn’t that an amazing conference?

Jonathan-C.

Posted May 14, 2007 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

Hi Lorelle, i’ll second Dawud! Was great meeting you! Can’t wait for sobcon08 🙂
I’d love to attend the wordcamp too, though it’s a little far from Montreal, will have to look into that a little more

Take care

Dawud Miracle

Posted May 16, 2007 at 5:44 am | Permalink

Lorelle, thanks – over and over – for being such a doll. I can’t wait to see where we go next…

www.mstoni.com

Posted June 3, 2007 at 4:46 am | Permalink

well. done. that’s really fantastic! good job buddy…waiting for more..you just put what the people searching for..good luck!

http://www.mstoni.com/

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