One month of chili luvin’ March 14th, 2007
Hooray! Today is the one month anniversary of our “big announcement” - chilibean media’s launch! What a month it has been.
To start off, we launched with a video, which gave you - our readers - an insight into who we - the chilibeaners - are. Paul talks alot, I laugh alot. Hopefully you feel like you could wander over to either of us and have a chat, now that you could recognise us from a mile away.
The video was also an introduction into this medium for us, one we found rather fun to dabble in (however time consuming the post production may be). I am sure that you will see more of chilibean on video sometime in the future, but for now we’re keeping our “made for podcasting” faces just there… on the chilipods!
The launch video, subsequent feedback from the general blogging community, and a rather official chilibean meeting lead to us formulating the chilibean manifesto, which Paul introduced on Episode 2 of chilipod, and which I will be putting up on the site this week. We were given an opportunity to tone down on the jargon and to express what we have in our hearts regarding chilibean’s offering… in plain English even we can understand.
Talking of podcasting, chilibean got to podcast the Quirk eMarketing WebPR+ conference in this month too. We met Sally Falkow and a whole wack of Quirk people, including Rob Stokes and the Sarah’s. We learnt tons about Marketing and PR, and got a great insight into where New Media can be implemented in this industry… right now!
I’ve also been rather busy in another venture - the SA Blog Awards 2007 - where chilibean has been nominated as a finalist in two categories!
I was invited to be a part of the judging panel. This has been an awesome chance to get to know the bloggers behind the blogs we read, as well as an opportunity to scrutinise the SA blogs themselves… There is a wealth of talent out there, if only there were more hours in the day to just explore the SA blogosphere! With the enormous responsibility of having a hand in choosing the best of the best comes much learning - The judging process is a complex one, and the Cherryflava team really put much effort into making it better every year. Having been a part of that process this year, I can see that there is a gap for the local blogging community to add real value by stepping in and giving their constructive feedback. As a passionately SA blogger I will definitely be helping out wherever I can.
And in between all of this we’ve continued to deliver quality blogging content to your screens! Here’s to another month of chilibean fun and excitement…
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