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Posts Tagged ‘Blogapalooza 2010’

 
Nov
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2010

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Where do I begin?

This weekend was by far, one of the busiest I’ve had all year. Except for maybe when I have to work a soccer game then a football game at the stadium, then it becomes a little tiring. I guess we can start in the order of which the events occurred.

SATURDAY: Boston Sports Blogapalooza II – Boston, MA

Man, this event is probably one of my favorite things to attend. Thanks to the hard work and diligence of Mr. Joe Gill, this event has transformed from a small networking event in May to THE sports blogging event of the New England area.  When the first ever Blogapalooza happened in May, it was truly my first experience in networking and actually putting a face to many of the blogs that I read on a daily basis.  Needless to say, I was pretty nervous to see exactly how I compare to some of the bigger names.

I networked my butt off with everyone from Ian of The Rap Sheet of the Boston Herald to Ian Logue of the huge site www.PatsFans.com. Unfortunately, due to  some prior engagements neither of the Ian’s were able to make it to the event. Fret not, there were some other pretty big names that were present at the Blogapalooza II event. I met Robert Hyldburg Jr., the author of “Total Patriots” ( a book that I use way too often when writing articles for Patriots Insider).  It was pretty incredible to speak with him on some the specifics of how the book came into existence and also reminiscing about some Patriots history.

What more can a dedicated Patriots fan/aspiring sports writer ask for?

Oh, but there was even more awesomeness to come from this event.

There are a group of dedicated Patriots people on twittter that I have often had the pleasure of being associated with. These people are some of the most interesting, hilarious and coolest football tweeps on the twitter and it’s not too often that I get a chance to meet them in person and talk about the one thing that has brought us together: Patriots Football.

One of these individuals trekked all the way from the west coast to network with some Boston’s best. Mike Dussault, or known to most of Patriots Nation as @PatsPropaganda (www.patspropanda.com). If you haven’t already, please check out Mike’s work.  …

 
 
 
May
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2010

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I was never much of a schmoozer.  Actually, I was just never that good at it.

In college, all my accomplished professors made sure that it was instilled in our brains that the sports industry feeds off of networking.  We’ve heard it before so many times, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” and so far, at least from my experience, it’s been true.   This is why being able to attend the Boston Blogapalooza today was such a GREAT experience.  I want to extend a big thanks to Joe Gill for all his hard work and unrelenting marketing of Blogapalooza. It worked, I was really excited to attend!  And before I forget, I want to say thanks to Kristyn G for being such an awesome friend(entourage) and attending this event with me.  Hope you had as much fun as I did :)

Besides getting a little lost around Boston (which happens a lot for me ), my Sunday started out wonderfully.  Walking into The Baseball Tavern was a little overwhelming at first considering I had no idea what to expect from the event, other than beer, sports and food of course.  What I was curious about was how a bunch of sports bloggers would interact with one another.  Some people were brave and flew solo to the event, which I admire.  Even in a situation like this,  sports always manages to bring people together and before we knew it, everyone was talking like they’ve known each other for years.
There were so many people that I recognized from Twitter, Facebook and other miscellaneous blogs that I read on a daily basis. I won’t lie, it was pretty great when I would introduce myself to people and they’ve either read my work on Patriots Insider or have stumbled across my blog somehow and really liked what they read. It takes a lot to make me blush and comments like that definitely do the trick.

Some of the coolest conversations I had were with these fellow bloggers:

Kat from …On Being a Sports Girl

Soxy Lady

Dan from Dan Sullivan Sport Management

Ian Logue of PatsFans.com

Going into Blogapalooza, I knew that there was so much more to learn about the world of blogging and sports. The best things about this event? I had the chance to sit and talk to many respected journalists and sportswriters from the New England area.  …