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How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets
Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM, 219

You just wrote the greatest blog post you’ve ever written. You researched the subject, spoke with sources, conducted interviews and completed a well thought out, well written article. You hit the post button and your baby is up. Here comes the praise! The first comment you receive? “You’re stupid, you’re ugly and you’re writing sucks.” Whether you call them trolls, haters or griefers, they’re out there, waiting to ruin your day, harm your community and taint your world.

Or maybe the first comment was something like, “Hey, nice article, check out mine!” Just like there are people who’d like to harm you, there are also people who’d like to cheaply benefit from your work and your audience. Spammers can do their own sort of damage.

But, neither of these two groups need harm you, if you know how to deal with them. This panel will give you the knowledge you need to tackle it.

Participants
Rick Calvert Rick Calvert
Rick Calvert is the CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo. He has been active the trade show industry since 1996 serving as Sales Manager / Director of Sales for three Tradeshow Week 200 events including the SEMA Show, AWFS®Vegas and the DEMA Show as well as one of the nation’s largest consumer shows, Comicon. He has been a voracious new media consumer since 2000 and launched his own blog The Real Ugly American in 2005. After searching in vain for an industry wide "new media tradeshow" he decided to launch BlogWorld in 2006.
John Chow John Chow
John Chow is the founder and CEO of TTZ Media Inc., an advertising network that provides shopping comparison banners to its affiliate sites. He is also the creator of John Chow dot Com, one of the most successful personal blogs on the Internet. John is best known for showing the power of blogging when he used his blog as an income case study. He took the blog from $350 per month to a over $27,000 per month in just one year.
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Sept. 20 at 11:00 AM: Making Money Online with a Blog
Patrick O'Keefe - Patrick O'Keefe, ManagingCommunities.com, Bad Boy Blog (Editor/Blogger), YanksBlog.com (Editor/Blogger)
Patrick O'Keefe Patrick O'Keefe
Patrick O'Keefe is a writer, web developer, and community administrator. He is the founder and owner of the iFroggy Network (ifroggy.com) and the author of "Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards" (managingonlineforums.com), a practical guide to managing online communities. He writes for multiple blogs, including YanksBlog.com, ManagingCommunities.com, and Bad Boy Blog.com, and maintains a personal blog at patrickokeefe.com.
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