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I created the Woodsongs.com website years ago, and have worked with Michael Jonathon and many volunteers to help with the web traffic for the show. All of this hard work, but specially the insanely good talent from the musicians, has made it one of the most important media exports from the state of Kentucky.

And now we turn around and find that they are almost to their 500th broadcast. If you want an example of TRUE social networking, authentic media, and what can happen when you remove greed, paranoia, and selfishness from art, check them out (and follow them on Twitter.)

These folks should have thought a little harder about naming their business. I guess as a B2B oriented company they didn’t think it would matter much. Anyway, it was an amusing photo as I imagined someone repairing my tractor and then offering some psychological advice.

I twittered Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, suggesting that if he was going to get his photo made with Bill Gates today that he should put up bunny ears behind Bill’s head. I told him if he did it, I’d link to it. Well you can kinda see that he was trying, so, he kept his part of the bargain, so I’ll keep mine.

Unfortunately it’s hard to see me giving Bill Gates bunny ears in photo due to bad resolution & boxes in background. I should have put my fingers higher. But Bill posed for photo knowing I would do bunny ears so kudos to Bill!

Thanks for being a wierdo for me Tony, and thanks to Bill for being such a good sport.

Look me up when you come visit the Zappos Lexington folks, I’ll buy you a beer.

Yes, that is a lion. In a sidecar. Pulling G’s with some real entertainers. Not a warning sign in sight. Now that’s entertainment. Line forms to the left.

Actually, the setup was a wooden barrel board wall of the “Thrillarena” or “Wall of Death” It’s called Motor Drome Riding and it was popular in the 20s and 30s. Someone along the way said “Hey, let’s put lions in the drome” uhhhh kay… sure, that’ll bring ‘em in. And it did.

Jason Falls had me thinking about this post after I wrote it so I updated it. When you use Gimmicks, you must just keep cranking them out. You must start out with a dog in the sidecar, then a goat, then a friggin’ lion. But what do you do when the lion gets boring?

So if you’re dependent on gimmicks - keep your foot in it - cause if you slow down, you’ll be lunch.

images from thrillarena.com

Where’s the Twitter-based event meetup application? I’ve not seen one, but until then here is a work-around that does some of the goodness. If you’re using Twitter on a mobile device and have a mobile feedreader, this is for you.

Even though many people I follow on twitter will be at the same events as me, there are always lots of folks who will be at conferences and meet ups I don’t know. I have found that Summize’s new Twitter search is a great way to get those folks into my Twitter stream - or at least follow them during (or after) the event using my mobile - provided they’ve tweeted at least once about the show or plans to attend.

The process couldn’t be easier.

1. Hit Summize.com and click on the “Twitter Search” link.

2. Add keywords related to your event. For SMX Social Media I added “SMX” because it was a nice short acronym I felt would capture most action related to this event. If anyone were tweeting about it, they’d include this. If you didn’t have such a convenient one, you may need to include the venue name, etc. (curious that there is no SMX Social twitter user we could all follow and send @’s to “where’s the party at?”. this would at least make backchatter more fun.)

3. After you search Summize, click on the upper-right side link for “Feed for this Query” link. For SMX Social Media I used this.

4. Drop that into your favorite mobile feedreader, such as google reader or newsgator go.

5. When you see people tweeting about the event, but haven’t yet met them, you can head over to twitter and follow them. This serves to get you into their Twitter stream and to let them know that you’re interested in meeting them.

Now, as event-related stuff happens, you’ll be in the loop and it’ll make socializing that much easier.

I just put together a new business card for this years’ conference season. I stuck with the steam-theme this time, but made it feel more like an antique club card. They’re nice and glossy.

I hope they’re here by SMX Social Media. If not my old card will do, and Sphinncon or SMX Advanced will be the first time I use them. Signature blurred.

If you’d like one of these, and you’re not in search marketing, let me know and I’ll share the photoshop template. You’ll need the oldtype typewriter truetype font.

ps: on real version my signature is filled in.

What do you think?