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Meeting Old Friends for the Very First Time

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It’s Over… But will Live on Forever

I had the best time Meeting all my Old Friends for the Very First Time. There was so much interaction between the speakers and participants (more than just attendees) it felt more like a neighborhood get together of friends and not a conference. I also learned a lot more than I could have ever expected from a regular conference. I learned something new and interesting from Everyone there.

Over the coming weeks, I will share some of the highlights I remember (Stoopid me didn’t write anything down, I was too intent on hearing every word).

I only have 2 regrets… Not taking a Camera and Not having business cards with me. I Will have them both next time, believe you me.

The speakers were:

Phil Gerbyshak of Make It Great!

David Armano of Logic + Emotion

Andy Sernovitz author of Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking

Liz Strauss of Successful and Oustanding Bloggers

Mike Sansone of Conversations and BlogTalk Radio

Drew McLellan of Drew’s Marketing Minute

Mike Wagner of Own Your Brand

Rodney Rumford of PodBlaze

Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog

Chris Cree of Success CREEations

Robyn Tippins of MyBlogLog

Vernon Lun of The Good Blogs

Diego Orjuela of Evoca

Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home

Terry Starbucker of Ramblings from a Glass Half Full

Here is a list of participants, as best I remember (Ok, I took them from Dawud Miracle):

Sandra Renshaw

Brad Shorr

Timothy Johnson

Tammy Lenski

Muhammad Saleem

Lorelle VanFossen

David Dalka – Mobile Search Marketing

Todd And

John Yedinak

Joe Hauckes (me)

Tim Draayer

Jeremy Geelan

Sheila Scarborough

Steve Farber

Dawud Miracle

Doug Mitchell

Jeff O’Hara

Dave Schoof

Jamy Shiels

Adam Steen

Hannah Steen

Chris Thilk

Barry Zweibel

Eric Bingen

Ellen Moore

Cord Silverstein

Jean-Patrick Smith

James Walton

Sharan Tash

Vernon Lun

Tony Lee

Scott Desgrosseilliers

Mark Murrell

Kammie Kobyleski

Easton Ellsworth

Mark Goodyear

Ann Michael

Kent Blumberg

Ashley Cecil

Robert Hruzek

Sabu N G

Lisa Gates

Franke James

Chris Brown

Troy Worman

Karen Putz

Jesse Petersen

Terry Mapes

Andy Brudtkuhl

Lucia Mancuso

Peter Flaschner

Derrick Sorles

Mike Rohde

Thomas Clifford

Rajesh Srivastava

Claire Celsi

Jason Alba

Cristiana Passinato

Sean “Rox”

Alex Shalman

Cristiana Passinato

Brad Spirrison

Ari Garber

Dr. Rob Wolcott

Cheryll Cruz

Sharon Scherer

Jonathan Phillips

Jason Wade

Jill Pullen

Doug Bulleit

Wendy Kinney

Chelsea Vincent

Ayush Agarwal

Paul Mangalik

Premchand Kallan

Xochi Kaplan

Michael Snell

Ella Wilson

Adam Kayce

I hope I didn’t miss anyone. If you were there and aren’t on the list, Please let me know.

Addendum: How could I ever forget someone as talented and kind and friendly and down to earth, not to mention a Great vocalist, songwriter, musician and performer as Christine Kane. Visit her site to get a small sample of her talents, you won’t be disappointed. (Sorry, Christine, for not including you earlier.)

If you couldn’t make this last get together, start saving your pennies now because I hear this could become an annual thing (I hope). I really would like to see you all at SOBCon 08.


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    17 Comments

    1. Jonathan-C. Phillips
      Posted May 15, 2007 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

      Was great meeting you Joe! Looking foward to sobcon08 :)
      I agree with you, i should have brought business cards! next year i will!

    2. Posted May 15, 2007 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

      Great to meet you, Joe. I hope we can see each other again at the next SOBCon if not sooner. I love your sentiment that it was meeting old friends for the first time.

    3. Posted May 15, 2007 at 7:18 pm | Permalink

      Hey Jonathan,
      Yeah, hind thought always works for me. ;-)

      Easton,
      We will meet again, no doubt sooner rather than later. :-)
      That’s just the way I felt, I have met everyone on their Blogs and mine for so long they ARE old friends. ;-)

      See ya both soon.

    4. Posted May 15, 2007 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

      No camera or biz cards for me, either. But what a terrific group of old, new friends.

    5. Posted May 15, 2007 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

      Hey Steve,
      I think we both have to work on the camera and card thingy, huh?
      Really nice talking to you at the conference. I’ll send you an E-mail once things settle down a little. ;-)

    6. Posted May 15, 2007 at 9:45 pm | Permalink

      My camera broke a few weeks ago. But my big forget-me-not became the wireless card. Fat lot of good the laptop does at a blogging conference when I can’t hook up to the network.

      It was great to see everyone in that room, though, wasn’t it?

    7. Posted May 16, 2007 at 7:25 am | Permalink

      Joe, I loved getting to know you. Thanks for some great laughs. Just wish I had more pictures.

    8. Posted May 16, 2007 at 7:54 am | Permalink

      Hey Mark,
      I always make a list of things to NOT forget and still forget things. ;-)
      Great meeting you and best of luck with your new endeavour.

    9. Posted May 16, 2007 at 7:59 am | Permalink

      Hey Dawud,
      I had a great time getting you know you and everyone else. Sometimes just sitting around having a Bull session is the best way to go! ;-)

    10. Posted May 16, 2007 at 8:45 am | Permalink

      Joe! It was indeed a pleasure to spent time with you. I fell into that “no camera” thing too, but thank goodness for Flickr. Thanks for all of your help with this – it wouldn’t have been the same without you. PS, I appreciate the hint to go to Word Press by putting in an incorrect link to me :-)

      You da man, and go Eagles!

    11. Posted May 16, 2007 at 9:11 am | Permalink

      Yeah, I agree. The casual time was just as much a part of it as the session time.

    12. Posted May 16, 2007 at 10:07 am | Permalink

      Hey Terry,
      Time was too short for all the conversations and just plain fun.
      It was sure different talking to you and Liz and Chris and all in person instead of on the Blog or on the phone. :-)

      Go E-A-G-L-E-S

      I’ll fix the link in a minute. ;-)

    13. Posted May 16, 2007 at 10:09 am | Permalink

      You got that right, Dawud. :-)

    14. Posted May 16, 2007 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

      Wow, it’s like SOBCon all over again in everyone’s comment boxes!

      Great to have been a part of it, Joe, and like you, I look forward to next year!

    15. Posted May 17, 2007 at 7:29 am | Permalink

      Hey Robert,
      If this keeps up, it will be like SOBCon all year until the Next Event. :-)

    16. GP
      Posted May 17, 2007 at 10:43 am | Permalink

      *sigh* while I was but a “virtual” participant.. .sounds like it was quite the extravaganza…. .Wish there’d been tags on the photos so i could ‘ve put faces with names… Guess I just have to be there up close and in person next year ! :)

      GP in Montana

    17. Posted May 17, 2007 at 11:25 am | Permalink

      Hey GP,
      Wish you were there too. Even though I was there, I have to think about putting the names and faces together. ;-) I remember the Blog Names better than the person’s name in most cases.
      I have never been really good at names. Oh, well, but I do have a good memory of the people I “knew” already like Liz, Chris, Liz, Lorelle, Sheila, Starbucker, Sandy… and on and on.
      Hey, maybe I Do Remember the Names and Faces Afterall. :-)

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