My Blogger Friends are Better Than Your Blogger Friends...
For anyone unfamiliar with WhizSpark, it's a robust event-building and promotion platform run by one of the most tuned-in Web 2.0-minded guys on the Web- Pete Caputa.
Pete is giving promoters, artists, and club owner[s] a chance to use the WS tools in exchange for feedback. These tools will help you in building an event website, help with mailing lists, RSVP’s, guest lists, ticket sale[s] and more.
Pete Caputa, of Whizspark (one of our partners), is looking for the right people to test-drive their powerful web-based event management platform, for free. Whizspark's service is not something a typical blogger would use (since, I would guess, many of us don't plan events on a regular basis), but what Whizspark has built is founded in the principles of blogging, social software and networking. One of the features that I am particularly impressed with is how Whizspark uses MySpace and sell side advertising to generate buzz and reward individuals for how well they promote an event.
Gregory Narain: (Read the whole thing. It almost made me cry for happiness.)
I've come to know Pete Caputa quite well over the past year. He works hard at what he's doing and he has a vision that he's committed to chasing....
It is really nice to see something come together, and finally, WhizSpark is getting to that point where the oil is hot enough and the engine is gliding....
If you've got any insight into how to spread your ideas to the far reaches of the blogosphere, let's hear them. If you're an event organizer, promoter or social butterfly, try WhizSpark out for your next event - Pete stands behind his offer and that counts for everything in my book.
If you haven't received an email yet about the new WhizSpark program asking you to blog about it, you will. What I like best about this is how people phrase what we do in their own language. The people I am sending this to - read my blog and have regular conversations with me about WhizSpark. So, they know what's up. But, until I see their words, I really don't know what I am really communicating and what they are understanding.
So, this exercise is as helpful in getting feedback about what is understood about our event registration and marketing service (and this program) - as it is in getting blog press.
Thanks to everyone so far. I am sure they'll be a second wave of this. And if things go right, a third and a fourth.
As always, if you have something for me to blog about, please don't hesitate to ask. I was exchanging emails with Ken Dyck and Dane Carlson (and some others) this week about my changing blogging goals. This is an excerpt from an email I sent:
Lately, I've been a lot less concerned with readers and more concerned about collaborators. I've started cutting back on who I read. I am only reading people that read me and who link to me and who engage in conversation through the blogs and other means. I am making my blog more about getting to know people in a more meaningful way and supporting their initiatives and less about my writing.
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