Don Lafferty

A Tale of Two Conferences: re-Set Business Forum and the 140 Characters Conference NYC

April 12, 2010

Attending elective conferences is one of those decisions I usually leave for the absolute last possible minute. I make the final call after I have a better feel for my workload, core business obligations, travel schedule, and in my case, my daughters’ sporting schedules. What do I mean by “elective conferences”? I mean conferences outside [...]

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Social Media Fast Track for Authors at the Backspace Writers Conference, May 28th in NYC

January 11, 2010

Buckle up for the fastest hour of social media how-to for authors, when the Backspace Writers Conference turns me loose from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm on Friday, May 28th. I’m bummed that my time slot is up against Karen Dionne’s Agent-Author Relationship panel, featuring Scott Hoffman, Norb Vonnegut, Jeff Kleinman, and Elizabeth Letts, but [...]

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140 Characters Conference Philly Would Like to Thank Kodak

January 10, 2010

Kodak’s Jeffrey Hayzlett, a good friend of the #140conf,  has generously donated a sweet Zx1 high definition pocket video camera for us to give away at our Philly meetup next week. Thanks, Jeff. So if you’re attending the Philly 140 Characters gig next Tuesday evening at National Mechanics and would like a shot at walking [...]

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Does Your Web Presence Help You or Paralyze You?

January 2, 2010

Being social and remaining effectively present in a social context is, like most skills, easier for some than for others. Maybe “easy” is the wrong word. I was having breakfast with Philly author Jonathan Maberry this past week when the simplest of examples dropped in my lap. I’d seen a blog post earlier in the [...]

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Who’s in an Author’s Community?

December 29, 2009

Chris Brogan talks, in his article yesterday, about Paul Coelho and Scott Westerfeld using the social web to engage their communities in a way that enables readers to congregate, and to participate in the creative energy surrounding a book like never before. While doing this, these guys create real relationships which always amount to the [...]

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My Story of Hope for the Publishing Industry

December 18, 2009

I spent yesterday bouncing between publishers and agencies like a pinball, doing what I do; helping authors and publishers find their readers. One publisher at a time. One person at a time. One conversation at time. One convert at a time. The usual for me. Except things feel different now. From my first cup of [...]

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Trust Summit Breakfast with Trust Agents and Trusted Advisors: Trust Me

November 13, 2009

It’s hard to believe three weeks have blown by since breakfast with Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, authors of Trust Agents, along with Trusted Advisor authors David Maister and Charlie Green. It was quite a scene. I hoofed it over to the Harvard Club of New York from the Hotel Roger Smith in plenty of [...]

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Legal Implications of Twitter use @ the 140 Characters Conference LA

November 2, 2009

This was a great panel discussion about the legal ramifications of using Twitter for corporations and individuals. Thanks to legal eagles Adrian T. Dayton @adriandayton, CEO of Comrad Esq., patent lawyer and author of CYBER LAW, Brett Trout @BrettTrout, and Tech lawyer, Glenn Manishin @glennm.

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140 Characters Conference LA: Just the Pics

November 1, 2009

Thanks to Jeff Pulver, Jeffrey Hayzlett and a ton of other people for providing an awesome environment for connecting and sharing at the 140 Characters Conference: Exploring the State of NOW at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood last week. Since almost everybody loves to look at themselves, I figured I’d start off by posting the [...]

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140 Characters Conference LA: Just the Links

November 1, 2009

Additional blogs, videos and other stuff about the 140 Characters Conference LA. Please add others in the comments. Devries PR Real Time Reactions from #140conf LA DeVries talks to Jeff Pulver More 140 Character Conference videos are available on DeVries PR’s’ YouTube channel. More 140 Character Conference videos are available on RealNetworks’ YouTube Channel. Welcome [...]

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