So I was checking my blog stats today and noticed a link from YouTube.  Naturally I followed it and found a 20 year old pharmacy student, DRBUK who is clearly a passionate member of the Apple community, pontificating over my free eBook with just a webcam and microphone. Editing be damned.

I left a message for him via YouTube and he quickly responded.  I told him I’d blog about it today and send some traffic his way.  Feel free to hit him up and see his unique take on my eBook.

I consider this another example of the power of social networking.  I don’t know Adrian (that’s his name) and he doesn’t know me.  Yet a quick look at my website analytics and I found someone clearly as passionate about Apple marketing as I am.  Networks like Ning let like minded people find each other, tools like Eloqua enable marketers to gauge the interests of prospects, and solutions like Dimdim enable real-time, rich media interactions.

I’d love to hear from you about interactions like this that would never have been possible just a few years ago.  Sometimes you need to stop and take a breath to realize just how connected a world we now live in.  In any event, this is a wonderful time to be a marketer.

BTW, I’ll be giving a keynote speech on Apple’s Social Media Secrets in Vilinius, Lithuania next week, June 4th as part of the Login ’09 event.

P.S. Steve Jobs will make a surprise appearance at WWDC.

UPDATE: Just got a Google Blogsearch Report pointing to another multimedia file today.  Enjoy.

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So I was checking my blog stats today and noticed a link from YouTube.  Naturally I followed it and found a 20 year old pharmacy student, DRBUK who is clearly a passionate member of the Apple community, pontificating over my free eBook with just a webcam and microphone. Editing be damned.

I left a message for him via YouTube and he quickly responded.  I told him I’d blog about it today and send some traffic his way.  Feel free to hit him up and see his unique take on my eBook.

I consider this another example of the power of social networking.  I don’t know Adrian (that’s his name) and he doesn’t know me.  Yet a quick look at my website analytics and I found someone clearly as passionate about Apple marketing as I am.  Networks like Ning let like minded people find each other, tools like Eloqua enable marketers to gauge the interests of prospects, and solutions like Dimdim enable real-time, rich media interactions.

I’d love to hear from you about interactions like this that would never have been possible just a few years ago.  Sometimes you need to stop and take a breath to realize just how connected a world we now live in.  In any event, this is a wonderful time to be a marketer.

BTW, I’ll be giving a keynote speech on Apple’s Social Media Secrets in Vilinius, Lithuania next week, June 4th as part of the Login ’09 event.

P.S. Steve Jobs will make a surprise appearance at WWDC.

UPDATE: Just got a Google Blogsearch Report pointing to another multimedia file today.  Enjoy.

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