plaxoed!

I gave a talk at Advanced Learning Institute’s blogging and podcasting training seminar earlier today. Personally, I wasn’t sure how the event would turn out (I’d never heard of A.L.I. until this event), but so far the conference has been pretty good. I’ve finally gotten a chance to meet Chris Barger from IBM face to face (we e-mailed back and forth when we both released our blogging policies publicly early last year) and it’s also been a good opportunity to chat with people from a wide variety of companies who are thinking about getting into blogging.

Here’s a weak cameraphone shot of the scene

For people who attended the talk, I mentioned some links which I’ll throw up here for you:

Blog search engines

• Technorati (http://technorati.com)
• BlogPulse (http://blogpulse.com)
• Google Blog Search (http://google.com/blogsearch)
• Feedster (http://www.feedster.com)
• PubSub (http://www.pubsub.com)

Blog aggregators

• Bloglines - online blog aggregator
• NewsGator/NetNewsWire/FeedDemon - online & desktop aggregator (costs money)
• RSS Bandit - free .NET desktop RSS aggregator
• Rojo - another web based aggregator

Plaxo Blog Policy
My official post about getting fired (check out the comments!)

And finally, here’s a PDF of the notes that were handed out. Of course, since Shel and Chris pretty much covered a lot of this stuff before my presentation, we didn’t really follow these notes. Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss anything in particular!