Ernie the Attorney walks me down Memory Lane. It turns out to be a Perpetual Loop

I had almost lost track of my good friend, Ernie, [the Attorney] Swenson, who today reminds me of how my path into the Blogosphere had first been carved. It was at PopTech. It was at PopTech in Camden, Me, one of my favorite conferences. Buzz Bruggeman, invited me to join him at a table, where he was sitting with several people I had never met before. I immediately got into a passionate argument with some overly caffinated guy named David.

That was how I met David Weinberger, JD Lasica and Ernie. Ernie and I immediately hit it off.  Ernie encouraged me to read the book of the guy I was arguing with, something called Cluetrain Manifesto. You never know when you are having a watershed moment in your life and it turned out I was having one.

David's book would inspire me more than any other I have read. Cluetrain, Buzz and Ernie would all be covered in Naked Conversations. Buzz would eventually introduce me to another guy named Scoble, and his friend Andy Ruff would suggest at that dinner meeting that Robert and I collaborate on a book.

To make it all go full circle, Ernie was writing about me today to help promote the  upcoming WOMMA Conference being held in New Orleans Apr. 17-18. The last annual WOMMA Conference was held in San Francisco.  Scoble and I were the co-keynotes at it.

I thought it was a fabulous conference, and if you should attend if you can.  David is the best of us on the presentation circuit. Trust me on this.

 


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