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Required Reading: Conversation Agent

Conversation Agent - Connecting ideas and people – how talk can change our lives, by Valeria Maltoni

If you haven't been reading the excellent writing and thinking of Valeria Maltoni, now is a good time to start. Valeria is a client-side marketer who "gets it" and her blog, Conversation Agent, is full of sage advice for anyone in the field of marketing interested in smart ways to think about and approach the social media space.

Her posts are well thought out, expertly researched, and highly thought-provoking. The best part of it all - she truly does all of this to help others connect and inspire more interesting conversations - both in the digital realm and in person. Go there now, or just subscribe to her RSS here so you can keep track of her writing regularly.

Required Reading: The Kaiser Edition

I'm not quite sure how it happened, but somewhere along the way, I lost track of what Marcus was writing when he switched over from his old blog to writing The Kaiser Edition.

Thankfully, someone pointed me in the direction of his Content Will Kill Your Agency series either in an email or comment from the Future of Marketing + Advertising post a while back and reminded me of his great blog/site.

In trying to catch up on it all, I feel like he and I are much on the same track of thought in many areas. Even down to the look of our sites/blogs. Although his is much better. If I were to create my own design rather than stay within TypePad's design tools, there's not much I would do different than how he has his set up. Anyway...

Rather than tell you about all the great stuff he's posting, just pop over there and start reading for yourself. Maybe the best/easiest way to start is to go with the "Top Stories" column on the right.

Note to Marcus, a.k.a. The Kaiser: Sorry I lost track for a bit. Definitely back on now and have corrected the oversight of not having a link to you over there in the blogrolls. Thanks for sharing all the great thinking and for always calling bullshit when it's needed.

paul budnitz blogs

I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a fan of Kidrobot stuff. So, I of course like this video by ReBo Labs a lot. But I'm even more happy to let you know that Paul Budnitz has a blog and is sharing all kinds of interesting things on it, including the above video.

Some of it is Kidrobot related, some is more personal, some is educational/informational, and possibly the best thing on it is that he openly shares some ideas he hasn't done yet. I especially like his post on perpetual creativity. Anyway, just wanted to be sure to share it. I highly recommend you check it out.