Third Eye

What happens when 80 bloggers — all experts digital media, marketing and public relations realms — gather from across the country and far away places like Belgium, Oman, and Australia? You get Blogger Social, and I enjoyed every minute of last night’s gathering. The room was full of brilliant and talented people I will collaborate with and know more deeply.

What is cool about this is all the people came together because they blog, through reading and commenting on each other’s marketing blogs, and a close community has formed. Most of the people in the room, and myself, also collaborated in the book, The Age of Conversation, essays by 103 bloggers on marketing and communications in a digital world. I blogged about that book last year.

So last night, the online community came together offline, and it was a beautiful thing. Eyeballs on computer screens became heart to heart connections that will last a lifetime. Thanks to all the wonderful people I met last night, and especially, to key organizers CK and Drew McClellan and the host of 20 volunteers who made the evening possible. That special gift from the City of New York was particularly cute!