Unfortunately, BlogHer Greensboro has been cancelled. I had registered and was planning to attend. However, I will still be attending ConvergeSouth and I look forward to it.

I’ve been talking about it for quite a while now, but with Blog World Expo almost here, I wanted to go ahead and post my full appearance schedule. Please let me know if you are going to be coming to any of the following. I look forward to meeting a lot of new people.

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Book Store on Second Floor (RSVP on Facebook)
Book Signing: “Managing Online Forums”
Joined by Rohit Bhargava, Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy & Marketing at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. He’s the author of “Personality Not Included” and we’ll both be signing copies of our respective books.

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM: Room 219
Panel: “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets”
Joined by Rick Calvert, Founder of Blog World Expo, John Chow of John Chow dot Com, The Tech Zone and TTZ Media and Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Room 227
Panel: “Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media”
Joined by Lee LeFever of Common Craft, Jason Falls, Social Media Explorer, Doe-Anderson and Blogger, SocialMediaExplorer.com and Darren Rowse, Owner, ProBlogger.net, Co-Founder and VP Training, b5media and Co-Author, “ProBlogger: The Book.”

If I may borrow a line from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

My book signing at Blog World Expo will be a dual signing, as I’ll be joined by Rohit Bhargava, the Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy & Marketing at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. He’s the author of “Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get It Back.”

The signing is on September 21 at 10:00 AM and will be at the bookstore on the second floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Immediately before, Bhargava will be giving the opening keynote for the day, joined by Timothy Ferriss of “The 4-Hour Workweek” and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. (My brother is quite envious, as he’s a huge Linkin Park fan).

As I’ve mentioned, I’m going to be on a panel at Blog World Expo called “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers and Sock Puppets.”

When I was on on Blog World Expo Radio on Friday, Rick Calvert, the founder of the conference, told me that a fourth panelist had joined the lineup. It’s Jeremy Schoemaker, better known as ShoeMoney. In addition to myself and Mr. Schoemaker, the panel will also feature Rick and John Chow.

One of the reasons I wanted to bring this up was so that I could point to today’s post on his blog, where he is asking for feedback on what we should talk about. So, if you have any thoughts, please feel free to let him know. It should be a great panel.

As Tropical Storm Hanna heads for me, I’ll be interviewed live on Blog World Expo Radio today at 3:00 PM ET. The Blog World Expo conference is fast approaching. If you are attending, please come to my panels and/or signing! My schedule is on the book website.

I’ll also be appearing on Zane Safrit’s show on Wednesday at 10:30 AM ET.

So, if you’re free, please tune in and participate! Thanks.

I’ll be doing a book signing at Blog World Expo on September 21 at 10:00 AM. I don’t know the specific location, but I’m sure it’ll be at wherever they have their book store. I know 2 people will be there. We’ll see if any others show up! It is very conveniently scheduled as the morning keynote ends at 10:00 AM and no panels start until 11:00 AM. So, if you’re free, please drop by. I’d love to meet you.

Also, I wanted to mention that I have a live interview, this Friday, August 29 at 8:00 PM, on New Media Pro.TV. I’m not sure if I will be on video or not, but either way, my voice will be live and, if you’re around, I’d love to have you listen in.

Finally, the deadline for voting in the SXSW 2009 Panel Picker is Friday, as well. If you have voted for my panels, thanks so much! If you haven’t, I’d definitely appreciate it if you gave it a look. The two panels are: “Content Theft and Copyright Infringement on Your Online Community” and “Are You Ready to Manage an Online Community?

I really appreciate all the support.

It’s been quite a while since I did a book coverage summary post, so I have a lot to highlight. First and foremost, there are a number of new reviews.

Chris Brogan, Jake McKee (Community Guy) and Jim Kukral all reviewed the book. Jim’s review was a video review and you can watch it on his blog. Chris Brogan’s review was mentioned by Heidi Miller on Talk It Up!

Dr. Jeffrey Barlow, of the Berglund Center for Internet Studies at Pacific University, reviewed the book for their electronic journal, Interface. There were also reviews posted by Brandon Eley, Book News and Rico Mossesgeld of Contract Worker.

I have new text interviews with Community Spark, as well as Josh Klein, in addition to a podcast interview with Startup Spark. I also participated in a private, live text based chat event with 30 plus assorted bloggers of the b5media blog network, providing advice on how to promote your blog via forums and how to create communities around your blog.

The book was mentioned on phpBB Guru, a Russian phpBB support community, Slashdot and ivanpino.COM. It was also mentioned by Lee LeFever of Common Craft and Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer and included in AMACOM’s Book Blast newsletter.

Finally, Alejandro Reyes of Successfool.com, mentioned in book in a short video on his Twitter and at the beginning of an episode of his Successfool.TV web show.

Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest in the book!

For anyone who was monitoring it, Darren has confirmed that he will be attending Blog World Expo and speaking on our panel, “Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media.” Excellent news.

Also, I just wanted to post a reminder that SXSW Interactive panel voting ends on August 29. If you are so inclined, I would definitely appreciate your vote on my two panels, “Content Theft and Copyright Infringement on Your Online Community” and “Are You Ready to Manage an Online Community?”

The panel that I will be on at Blog World Expo, “Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media,” has been moved from September 20 from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM to September 21 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Also, I’m happy to say that I’ll be on a second panel at the conference, earlier that day. From 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, I will be on a panel called “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers and Sock Puppets,” with Blog World Expo founder Rick Calvert and John Chow of John Chow dot Com, The Tech Zone and TTZ Media. The panel description:

Is your community out of control? Do you have cyber stalkers insulting you every time you post?

This session will help you deal with these cyber bullies.

So, I’m really looking forward to all of that and hoping to meet some of you out there!

The SXSW Interactive Panel Picker is now online. This system allows you to rate the panels that people have proposed. I proposed two panels myself. They encouraged us to ask people to vote for our panels, so I wanted to mention it. If you have any interest, please feel free to give them a look.

The first panel is “Content Theft and Copyright Infringement on Your Online Community,” which I proposed with Jonathan Bailey of PlagiarismToday.

On this panel, we’ll talk about what you should do when someone uses your online community to infringe upon the rights of another. This includes prevention and the management of plagiarism and copyright infringement on forums, communities and social spaces. How to discourage, minimize and deal with it, including being proactive and handling reports.

The second panel is called “Are You Ready to Manage an Online Community?,” which also includes Martin Reed of Community Spark and April Burba, the Associate Producer of Dungeon Runners, an MMORPG from NCsoft and the former Community Manager for Tabula Rasa and City of Heroes, also MMORPGs from NCsoft.

For this panel, we’ll talk about what you should be prepared for before you manage an online community. What do you, as administrator, need to be equipped with? We’re not talking technology, we’re talking you as a person. What do you need to know, be ready for and what common pitfalls can you avoid?

I’m hoping the response to these is possible as I’d love to do a panel at SXSW. Fingers crossed!