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One of the biggest lessons that I learned over the past month is that I should really keep one consistent home on the web, and having not done so over the last three years has been to my career and personal branding efforts detriment.

I have moved from site to site, from place to place, and from company to company, and while many people know me rather intimately, in the more general sense, I am relatively unknown.

Attending Blog World Expo, I assumed a few people would know me outside of my normal social circles but that really wasn’t the case. Some people knew the sites I had written on, but most people didn’t know me by name.

If you want to do well online, it is smart to create one place where people can always find you, even if you are working as a blogger for other companies or blog networks. Don’t do as I’ve done and move from place to place or it can become difficult to remember who you are.

Hopefully, over time, I will be able to rectify this error on my part through continued brand building in a wider variety of mediums as those that were doing video podcasts were the most recognized, second came those that did a variety of audio podcasts, and third came us primarily text-only bloggers. So if you want to be recognized, a second tip would be to get your face and voice out on the web as much as possible.

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So over the course of the last week, especially at Blog World Expo, I got to spend lots of time with the iPod Touch 2G, and found it to be a fairly capable device with only a few limitations when it comes to blogging.

Inputting large amounts of data into the device is a pain in the rear, and not something I plan on using the device for too often, but jotting down web addresses, and scheduling was very useful. It is almost a full blown PDA, meaning I can use it to organize my life, and I love that aspect of it.

Connect it to WiFi and you have a very helpful device in getting directions, sending out Twitter messages, and keeping track of e-mail. I still wish it had a digital camera like the iPhone so I could have taken some images of people, booths and business cards, but I guess I will just have to carry around a digital camera, once I buy a new one.

The iPod Touch seems to be quite a useful device, in a very small form factor. While I don’t think it is as good as some of the smaller ultra-portable laptops that have come out it is definitely a nice replacement for my much heavier laptop when I expect to move around often and only need e-mail, Twitter, and instant messaging access.

I actually didn’t bring my laptop to Blog World Expo on the last day and found the battery life of the iPod Touch to be more than sufficient, but didn’t find that I recorded much information on the device pertaining to the event. I did use it to track down certain people through Twitter, and take down names, e-mails and web addresses, but it just wasn’t the same, and so I am missing out on a whole day worth of event related notes.

Would I recommend the iPod Touch as a blogging platform for anyone? Probably not, as it can’t easily be used to create decent length blog posts in the same way a laptop can and without the ability to take video or even simple pictures, it loses out on the multimedia blogging abilities of other potential devices.

I would recommend that bloggers take a look at the sub-twelve inch notebooks being put on the market today as a great portable blogging device, as the iPod Touch, while a great internet connected device, can’t make blogging easier. On the flip side though, it will help keep you organized, and there is never anything wrong with that.

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Thanks again to everyone listed below for their help in reaching my goal of getting an iPod touch.

Ryan Caldwell of College Crunch
Mark Wood, My Cousin
Jeff Chandler of Jeffro2pt0
Chris Garrett of Authority Blogger
Yan Fortin of Geeks are Sexy

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So I took quite a few little videos at Blog World Expo, mostly on the first day, the E&E event which was a special start to the conference and had some great sessions, keynotes, and whatnot.

I am still processing all of the video I have taken, and will upload it all to Vimeo as I have the time.

Here are some videos for those that missed the event.

A Piece of Dave Taylor’s Keynote Speech

Dave Taylor’s Keynote Speech from David Peralty on Vimeo.

Lunch at Blog World Expo

Lunch at Blog World Expo 2008 from David Peralty on Vimeo.

Gary Vaynerchuk Getting Ready to Speak

Gary Vaynerchuk Speech Prep at Blog World Expo 2008 from David Peralty on Vimeo.

A Few Well Known People at Blog World Expo

A Few Well Known People at Blog World Expo from David Peralty on Vimeo.

Midway Between the Conference and the Hotel

Panorama Near the Las Vegas Convention Center from David Peralty on Vimeo.

See all of my Vimeo uploaded videos.

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Gary has given me what will no doubt be my daily inspirational video for doing what I do, and I sat with my Flip Video in hand for half an hour to record it the best that I could. Cramped up before the Q&A, but there is still lots of great content in this video.

I will have an embed, flash version soon, but for now, here is the full quality, unedited AVI for consumption.

Gary V’s Blog World Expo Keynote Video - Note: 787mb, 35 minutes.
Mirror #1 - By Erik Boles

I have also added it to Vimeo, and so now have a lower quality Flash version for people to watch. It is about one third of the file size, so it should be easier for those of you that are sick of the nearly 800mb version I uploaded previously.

Gary Vaynerchuk Blog World Expo Keynote Speech from David Peralty on Vimeo.

For more sizes, and downloads of the video, check out Erik Boles blog, where he’s put up a mirror of the large 780mb version, and a Quicktime version that runs in at 207mb and an iPhone version at 22mb.

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I can’t believe how many amazing people I am meeting at this conference. Attending wasn’t to learn new things and so I won’t yet comment on the presentations, but the people are amazing.

So far I’ve met Lorelle, Vic, Jim Kukral, Deb Ng, and others. I’ve been Twittering like mad on Twitter.

More to come when I pull out my laptop.

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