I interviewed Christiana Briddell, Co-Founder of ThoughtLead.com about The Influencer Project: The World’s Shortest Marketing Conference on The Business of Online Thought Leadership on Blog Talk Radio this week.

After our conversation, it’s also arguably the World’s Shortest Most Valuable Marketing Conference. And it’s FREE.

• 60 Leading Thinkers in Social Media/New Media were given
• 60 seconds to share their Best Ideas for how to increase online influence in 60 Days
• =60 minutes of pure genius. (IMHO)

Here’s a video for you video folks. (I’m so not a video watcher, but this one was interesting)

Also, here’s a link to the press release for more information.

About ThoughtLead
ThoughtLead’s mission is to spread important ideas that positively impact our world through online marketing.

I am delighted to invite you to join me for the Inspiring Women Summit, an unprecedented teleseminar event featuring 52 women leaders and powerful connections with thousands of other women over 8 days – all for free.

Click Here to Find Out More

I will participate on a featured panel during the Summit alongside respected leaders such as Marianne Williamson, Christiane Northrup, Jehmu Greene, Deva Premal, Joan Borysenko, and Marci Shimoff (full list below).

The 8-day program will explore many facets of being an inspired woman including: feminine leadership, entrepreneurship, women’s health, communication, relationships, manifestation skills, sensuality, community organizing, spirituality, and much more. Panel dialogues will focus on questions of importance to women, which will then seed your conversation with other participants.

Each day will also include networking opportunities to advance your work.

Never before have so many top women leaders gathered on the phone to offer their secrets, stories, advice, and encouragement to other women. It promises to be a dynamic week of personal transformation, powerful dialogues, and inspiring circles – all without expense or travel. This event is not like other teleseminar series – you will be an active co-creator and collaborator through breakout groups, collaboration circles, and more.

You can participate live on as many calls as you like and interact with both the leaders and other participants via a state-of-the-art MaestroConference platform.  Or you can just listen to the recordings later at your convenience since all will be taped.

The Summit runs from May 1st to May 8th and is completely free. Please do share this invitation with friends and allies – all are warmly welcomed to participate. While the event is geared towards women, men may participate as well.

Find Out More

I hope to see you at the Summit!

Best,
Michelle Price

p.s. The Inspiring Women Summit gives you personal access to the following inspiring women leaders:

Marianne Williamson, Christiane Northrup, Riane Eisler, Jehmu Greene, Deva Premal, Joan Borysenko, Monica Sharma, Marci Shimoff, Mama Gena, Sonia Choquette, Mona Polacca, Hazel Henderson, Jan Yanehiro, Nina Rothschild Utne, Angel Kyodo Williams, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Margaret Wheatley, Kristine Carlson, Belvie Rooks, Elza Maalouf, Daphne Rose Kingma, Juanita Brown, Marcia Wieder, Anodea Judith, Susan Davis, Beth Wilson, Tami Simon, Rita Lustgarten, Lama Palden, Michelle Price, Dorka Keehn, Lisa Schrader, Claire Zammit, Liana Chaouli, Elayne Doughty, Charlotte Shelton, Durre Ahmed, Agapi Stassinopoulos, Zem Joaquin, Susan Collin Marks, Katherine Woodward Thomas, Johanina Wikoff, Sherry Anderson, Hala Khouri, Suzanne Sterling, Zen DeBrucke, Miranda MacPherson, Osprey Orielle Lake, Sheva Carr, Jalaja Bonheim, Chameli Ardagh, Gail Straub, Jessica Roemischer.

Series Host: Devaa Haley Mitchell

Event Co-sponsors: MaestroConference, MaestroPath, Women on the Edge of Evolution, FemininePower, Wisdom of the World , Sounds True, Unity, Dream University, WOW Magazine.

I discovered Ananda Leeke via a surprising stream of @ tweets that she shared about me and some of the concepts and things I have been up to …how cool is that?

So I jumped over to her “Sisterhood, The Blog” blog to see who this leading edge sister-thinker was and I’m really impressed with what she is up to, too!

Now, I’m going to surprise her right back…by posting her poem “Sisterhood, The Blog” below.

(It’s  included in her new book That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (iUniverse, Inc. - available on Amazon.com – http://tiny.cc/7uFsg).

Sisterhood, the Blog
by Ananda Leeke

Have you heard?

There’s a new feminine frontier where women’s voices emerge from the silence without fear, shame, or judgment.

Where women plant seeds of thought and infinite possibilities in gardens that promote freedom of expression.

Where women reveal their dreams and tell their secrets because a sanctuary of safety has been birthed by each woman’s soul.

Thanks to the Internet and an expanding portfolio of social media tools, women have discovered common ground.

They have become the architects of their own lives.

Their blogs, videos, podcasts, and social networking sites are prime real estate in online neighborhoods that form communities of support.

Their conversations build relationships and bridge gaps.

They make their own news and tell their own stories

The end result is a plethora of networks that serve as launch pads for personal and spiritual empowerment, information sharing, creative expression, healthy living, new friendships, social justice advocacy, career reinvention, and business opportunities.

All of their energy and efforts illustrate one truth:  women are standing in their power and reclaiming their sacred feminine on and offline.

They move with a power not seen before.

It is rooted in being fully

P – Present when they

O – Own their lives as

W – Women who believe they have

E – Everything they need to live out their

R –  Revolution of authenticity.

One thing is for sure, women know their investment in themselves will yield a high return.

So get on board and join the revolution of Sisterhood, the Blog before it’s too late.

Copyright 2009 by Madelyn C. Leeke

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Anada Leek is (www.anandaleeke.com), an author, artist, creativity coach, yoga teacher, Reiki Master practitioner, blogger, D.C. Social Media Examiner (for Examiner.com), social media strategist, radio host, speaker, and innerpreneur, established Sisterhood, the Blog in June 2009.

A Twitter conversation sparked this post a while ago, and I wanted to revisit today (thanks @JDeragon)

Jan Phillips wrote this white paper in 2006, using Michael Stelzner’s white paper on… “How to Write a White Paper” (thanks Michael …designed to help market the book she was writing for 9th Element Group, our angel-funded, short-lived “business of thought leadership” consulting company.

You can download it RIGHT here:

Visionary Thought Leadership. (PDF, opens new window, no registration required)

I think it’s time we revived it, let me know what you think when you read it,  it’s obvious to me now that we were way ahead of our time.

Enjoy the read, and if you like it…
You’ll LOVE the award-winning book companion book we published titled “The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader”
(Amazon.com and in bookstores too)

Also, go check out Jan Phillips and tell her what an amazing predictor she is… (well, I guess we all were – we all added content and insight).  You’ll love her site.  Tell her Michelle Price sent you.

That’s a question I’ve asked for a while now and none of the pretty enlightened leaders I know seem to have a clue either. So, I thought it would be fun to plan to find them and when I do, they’ll appear in this category.

In 2006, I was a partner in a thought leadership publishing venture called 9th Element Press and we published our first award-winning business book, The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader. It was written in record time by one of the most talented women thought leaders I know, Jan Phillips.

To become a thought leader, you have to be an original thinker because thought leaders don’t become that way by thinking someone else’s thoughts. (makes sense).

The Art of Original Thinking engages you in a 3 part process:

• Release the Past,
• Embrace the Present
• Create the Future

It’s truly a ground breaking business book that introduces you to some of today’s most original thinking companies (and I guarantee they aren’t ones you’re used to reading about) and how they are increasing global consciousness and doing well while doing good.If you know a woman who you consider a thought leader, send me a note and tell me why and I’ll consider adding her to this section…

FYI, “reBlog” is for bloggers what “Re-Tweet” is to Twitters.  I learned that today on my internet travels.

Using Twitter to discover conversations about thought leadership, I found this great list of 15 Things Social Media Can Do For You today and wanted to share it.  I couldn’t have said it better myself :

1. Allows you to participate in networks that at one time you didn’t have access to.
2. Gives you access to thought leaders
3. Connects you to employment opportunities
4. Grants you an opportunity to have face-to-face conversations with brands
5. Brings the world closer to you
6. Allows you the ability to build a global network easier
7. Provides a platform to build and promote a personal brand
8. Increases the opportunity to become a thought leader in your area of expertise
9. Provides income opportunities
10. Gives you access to raw journalism often times not available to mainstream media outlets
11. Connects you with business opportunities – partnerships and funding
12. Gives you a platform to be heard, if you’re willing to take time to listen to others.
13. Give you access to information faster, easier and in real time.
14. Makes it easier to share information with your networks
15. Through technology and social media channels you have instant access to communities and networks at all time.

socialmediaexplorer.com, 15 Things Social Media Can Do for You Today, Jun 2009

The OG Online Thought Leader Seth Godin talks at TED about Tribes (What I like to call True Fans – what if you had a Tribe of 1000 True Fans? Never “work” again because you would have your own economy!).

TED is my favorite site for learning who the leading thinkers are for today. Seth Godin is the Original Thinker and I read his blog updates FIRST in my inbox. Enjoy and EXPAND your thinking!

It’s about time somebody wrote this book. And, David Silver is the one to write it. I like it because it’s practical. David breaks down 18 revenue channels for online communities, and none of them are advertising. Interesting huh? Want to know what they are? Listen in to this interview and you will see. Better yet, grab a copy of the book for your library. It’s a keeper.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK BUSINESS PLAN: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth. (He’s got my attention

USA Today says, “If entrepreneurship is a religion, then Silver is its high priest.”>

In The Social Network Business Plan, social network expert, David Silver presents and explains 18 cutting-edge methods to create revenue for social network websites–none of which are advertising.

He also predicts the demise of seemingly successful online communities such as MySpace and Facebook that rely on advertising as non-sustainable modalities.

David says the future new products and services will be introduced, talked about, rated, reviewed and recommended – or killed – by online communities.

Listen in on The Business of Online Thought Leadership internet radio show

Do people who know how  NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)  or hypnosis works have an unfair advantage  on Twitter & Facebook, among other social networks?

I think they DO.  (Ummm…I KNOW they do. Some of my best friends are master NLP and persuasion artists and they have LOTS of Twitter followers who do what-ever-they-tell-them-to-do .

If there was anyone who would know for sure, it’s Richard Bandler.

You know, THAT Richard Bandler. The one considered the “Grandfather” of NLP. And a REALLY great hypnotist.

I was talking with a colleague and she happened to mention his new book, Richard Bandler’s Guide to Trance-Formation (she’s his publicist). I mentioned how fascinated I’ve always been with NLP and the ability to understand someone’s mental map and how they think. And how cool it would be to actually meet Richard Bandler.

What I told her I didn’t have was a simple explanation for what NLP actually is, and how it works.

I’ve read a lot of books that went into laborious details about it, gave all these long drawn out explanations on all of the terms, complete with illustrations of eyes looking up, looking down, looking left and down, looking right and up (reminding me of that rhyme we used to say in elementary school “Look UP, Look DOWN, Look at my THUMB, Gee You’re DUMB…LOL!).  I think they called them “accessing cues”…

All it did was make me dizzy and not want to think about it. So many unread pages….

So she sent me an email one day not long after and asked if I would be interested in interviewing him.  (umm..YES!!)

I got a copy of the book, and I must say that in the first 3 short chapters, I actually GOT what NLP is. Forever.

If you’re interested, it’s how we represent the world in our own mind – the map or model we create to make sense of and navigate around the world AND the distinct way we each process our experiences.

Does understanding how you process experience give someone an unfair advantage on Twitter when they want to persuade you to “click here” to “see”, or “listen” to or “download and read”?

Does knowing how to use certain words that are more hypnotic and trance-inducing than others make a difference in whether you actually take any action at all?

Good questions.  Listen to my interview on The Business of Online Thought Leadership Radio with Richard Bandler and hear what he has to say about social media, hypnosis, trance and NLP.

It’s right here:

Does Twitter Put You In A Trance? Dr. Richard Bandler tells you the truth

Today on The Business of Online Thought Leadership talk radio, I snagged an interview with leading thinker Sandy Carter, IBM’s Hippest Marketing 2.0 Chick, and Vice President, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and WebSphere Marketing, Strategy, and Channels.

Sandy is also the new author of the book “The New Language of Marketing 2.0: How to Use ANGELS to Energize Your Market”. She is responsible for IBM’s cross-company, worldwide SOA initiatives and is in charge of one of IBM’s premier brands, IBM WebSphere.

She is known for her innovative Marketing 2.0;  she’s led the brand to win 14 industry marketing awards in the past year!

Listen in and learn what Big Blue is up to – how they are using the tools of Web 2.0 and social media to open and sustain conversations with their customers and prospects.  You’ll learn how they got over 50,000 customers to give them input on a new product, and how they used Twitter to increase the attendance at a series of Road Show LIVE events.  In fact, they attributed at least 5,000 attendees overall to Twitter!

Here you go, enjoy:
The New Language of Marketing: How to Use ANGELS to Energize Your Market