Jeremiah Owyang discusses how web tools and social media enable companies to connect with customers

Chicago Blogger Dinner

September 20th, 2006 | Category: Blogger Dinner, Events

Stepped off the plane and went right to the Blogger Dinner. Felt like an idiot as I stumbled through the busy restaurant with my luggage. Found Scoble and the bloggers. We had a variety of conversations around Yahoo, Microsoft, Wireless, MySpace, Vox, Blogs, Edelman, Hitachi, pretty much anything and everything geek.

This was my first time in Chi town and having a REAL pizza pie at Girodano’s.
Present were David Dalka, Jeff Treem, Robert Scoble, Joseph Thornley (Who blogged about the dinner), Kevin Dugan, Chris Thilk, David Armano, and Mike Miller one other (didn’t get his card sorry). I knew this was a good group, as there was an excess of money for the tab.

Chicago Airport

My Taxi Driver (I taught him what blogs were)

David Dalka fiddles with Sidekick

Jeff Treem is getting paid by Sam for this product placement

Kevin Dugan and Jeff Treem

Blogger Dinner

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Robert Amazed by Authentic Chicago Pie


21 Comments so far

  1. jeremiah_owyang September 20th, 2006 10:31 pm

    Oh and yes, Ill be the second to say it

    http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/09/20/scobleshow-trailer/

    Yeah it was “sausage”.

  2. ScobleShow Trailer (and tonight’s geek dinner report) « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger September 20th, 2006 10:35 pm

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  3. Joseph Thornley September 21st, 2006 4:00 am

    Jeremiah, we knew the dinner had really started when you carted all of your possession into the restaurant! ;-) I’m looking forward to your session today.

  4. Michael Gannotti September 21st, 2006 4:18 am

    Great site!
    Came acorss this after seeing Scobles post. Keep up the good work …. and pass some of that pizza ;-)

  5. David Dalka September 21st, 2006 4:40 am

    Jeremiah - that is a real nice backpack, you should introduce to your friends! Why aren’t a I labeled the “great pumpkin” or somethign in that picture with all the labels?

    That pizza picture with Robert just rocks. Giordano’s should have bought us the meal for that priceless gem. Good creativity on the one above it!!!

    With how many pictures you take, someone should really send you a super high end camera so that they know all of those pictures were taken by “such and such brand camera!”

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    […] The second half of the day promises to get off to a strong start with a presentation from Jeremiah Owyang, Community marketing: Turn executives into powerful evangelists for the company message. […]

  8. jeremiah_owyang September 21st, 2006 5:25 am

    David

    I take a lot of pics, one of the things about my Camera Strategy is that I don’t have a high end camera (it’s a small sony with 7.2 megapixels)

    My Strategy
    -Portable and unassumming, it doesn’t throw off folks like some of the larger cameras
    -Take a LOT of pics, and a few will turn out great (quantity over quality)
    -Get close to the action: since it is smaller, It’s easy to get it up to people.
    -Be Brave: I’m not afraid to take pics, and just love to get close to the action!

  9. jeremiah_owyang September 21st, 2006 5:52 am

    Heh yes Michael, I just tried to pass the pizza to you and now my screen is all red! ;)

  10. Mike Miller September 21st, 2006 6:00 am

    I’m the guy without the business card. Nice to meet you all last night.

  11. David Armano September 21st, 2006 8:43 am

    It was really great meeting all of you. That was my first “geek dinner”. I feel like I just experienced some kind of “rite of passage”

  12. jeremiah_owyang September 21st, 2006 10:52 am

    David, the pleasure is ours. Guess what, the rite of passage entitles for me to call you geek.

    “GEEK!”

  13. Chris Thilk September 21st, 2006 10:57 am

    It was so great to meet everyone in person. Sorry I had to bust out early but public transportation waits for no man.

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  15. David Armano September 21st, 2006 4:49 pm

    Jeremiah,

    All along I thought I was the un-geek. But now I realize…

    I am one of you.

  16. jeremiah_owyang September 21st, 2006 8:12 pm

    You are on of us…beep beep, join the collective….beep beep.

  17. //del.icio.us/an event to savor « Marketing Nirvāna — by Mario Sundar September 21st, 2006 9:27 pm

    […] And I have always wondered what’d happen when “the twain did meet”. Last week, our friends from the Bay Area — Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble, travelled to Chicago for the Ragan PR conference and hung out with very our own marketing bloggers David Armano and Chris Thilk. […]

  18. Owen Lystrup September 22nd, 2006 11:27 am

    Ah authentic Chicago pizza.

    Nothing beats it. Nothing beats the over-filled stomach ache either.

    I could tell this was your first time in Chicago, even without you saying it.

    “Chitown” gave it away.

  19. jeremiah_owyang September 22nd, 2006 12:53 pm

    Owen,

    Wow am I that apparent?

    People call San Francisco “Frisco” and that’s often a dead ringer too.

    :)

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