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Blogging, Food, Photo-A-Day

Newest Addition to the Johnsonville Grill Greats Blogger Panel

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See a photo a day on BenSpark's ShutterCal
Photo-A-Day #2556

A Little over a week ago I got an e-mail asking me to be part of the Johnsonville Grill Greats Blogger Panel. I’ll be part of a group of roughly 10 other bloggers/online ambassadors who will get to sample Johnsonville products, participate in some fun contests (many that you can participate in including giveaways) and I’ll have some great grilling tips. The panel will be starting soon as grilling season begins.

I received a welcome packet including a grilling mitt, apron, cooler (that will be great for work or transporting Johnsonville Brats to other BBQs). I also got some coupons for Brats and Johnsonville Bratwurst patties. I may also get to attend some food events on Johnsonville’s behalf which may include the Beer Bloggers Conference in Indianapolis in July 2012 or National Bratwurst Day in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in August. Personally I think that Brat Days would be more my sort of thing. Don’t get me wrong I like beer, I just don’t drink it much these days.

So look for some videos, interviews, contests and more to be found on BenSpark.com in the coming year.

Here are some of the other members of the Grill Greats Blogger Panel:

Oh and the Johnsonville Brats I grilled up tonight were a big hit. They were the original flavor. Eva saw that I had two and Allison had two and promptly asked where her second one was. And she would have eaten a second too.

Conferences

It is not too late to attend BlogWorld Expo 2010

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Anthony Edwards, Xshot and Shoe4Africa

One week away from my session at BlogWorld & New Media Expo. This will be the 4th time that I will be attending that I will attend BlogWorld and I am so excited to be be presenting my knowledge to the attendees like so many people have done for me in the past. I’ve learned so much from each of the previous conferences and am eager to see what I can learn during this year’s event.

My main goal this year is to learn as much as I can about how to do a video podcast and finally get the Photo-A-Day Podcast on iTunes. I just don’t know enough on how to do this correctly and that is what has kept me back from getting this up and running in earnest. I’m also excited to meet up with the people that I’ve been working with through Collective Bias, Seagate and Kodak. That is going to be epic.

If you are going to attend I encourage you to attend my session for a few reasons. This will be a session where you can learn some great tools on how to create, host and post audio, video and photo content. My session is on Friday at 2:45pm and it is called Content You Care About: Tools for Bloggers.

Reason #1 – My session will teach you real tools that you can use. Free ones and ones you can pay for.

Reason #2 – If you attend my session you will have access to an ebook of the session that will include all the links that you need to access the tools that I mention in the session.

Reason #3 – Prizes. If you attend you will be entered to win a Kodak Camera. I have a few that I’ll be giving away, courtesy of BlogWorld & New Media Expo sponsor Kodak. I may have a few other surprises up my sleeve, too.

What is my session about, really?

I’m talking all about some of the most widely available tools for creating dynamic content. I am more impressed when a blog has content that was created by the blog owner rather than them pulling content from all over the Internet for their own use. I’ve been creating my own daily content for years which includes the Photo-A-Day project that I have been doing for five straight years. I’ll encourage ways to create better audio content, video content and photos. Tips will be for content creation, content hosting and promoting that content in order to increase traffic to your blog. IF you’d like to learn these techniques than this session is for you.

If you are on the fence than I have a deal for you. BenSpark.com fans save 20% on Thursday, Weekend or Full Access Passes at BlogWorld

Sign up to go today because if you are serious about blogging this is the one conference all year that you NEED to attend.