I Wish Every Tuesday Was This Good
I spent today in a small room in Needham, MA speaking at the New Marketing Bootcamp. It was a small, highly interactive and curious crowd which made for a great day. Plus I got to meet people like Paul Gillin who I had only read before, but it is always nice to be able to shake someone’s hand and say hello in person.
Personal highlight besides meeting some great new people was walking out and chatting with Chris Brogan while we found our cars (and later waved to each other as we made similar confusing u-turns). We usually only get to connect virtually or when we are both out of town attending a conference, so catching up on everything off the grid is always a welcomed change of pace.
I also learned of two new tools today that I had never tried so I’m kicking the tires on both. BatchBook is a contact management system targeting small business. The other is MarsEdit which is an offline blogging tool. So far both are interesting enough that I’m going to give them a solid month to see what I think. If either is a keeper I’ll let you know.
Tomorrow is a full plate full of meetings, brainstorming and delivering. As if that wasn’t enough I’m psyched to be interviewing the team behind Ask a Ninja. Then I jump on a plane for work in Pittsburgh and New York City.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:20 pm |
Thanks for giving MarsEdit a look. Please don’t hesitate to drop by my forums or send me an email if you have any questions during your trial.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:25 pm |
I quite agree. It was great (strange/fun) sitting beside you and then hanging out for once. : )
September 10th, 2008 at 8:15 am |
Quite a whole load of activity for you!thanks for sharing the tip about Mars Edit, im off to check it out!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm |
CC,
Yes, it’s definitely great to connect with people locally rather than 3,000 miles away from home. Maybe someday I’ll make the 1.5 hour drive down your way…
I’m a *huge* fan of MarsEdit and have been heavily using it for the last year or so. I like the media library to easily allow me to repeatedly embed images in posts. And I like the ability to create macros to rapidly inject common code sequences that I use in my posts. And maybe it’s just me, but I’m perfectly okay editing my entries in HTML if I have macro keys to rapidly inject code.
See you sometime in here,
Dan
September 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm |
Agreed - Best Tuesday I’ve had in awhile. It was great learning more about the world of new media from gurus like you, Chris, Paul and the rest of the crew. Now comes the challenge…putting the information to work for clients.