I’m a high profile blogger?
I was rather surprised today to get an email inviting me to a meeting with the co-President and co-Founder of Wainwright Bank, Robert Glassman. Apparently Wainwright, as a socially progressive bank, is reaching out to the local progressive blogging community and I was one of the small group of people they sent the initial invitation to. I’d like to think that this is indicative of my status as a high profile blogger, but I imagine it has more to do with the fact that I’ve written about Wainwright on several occasions.
I suppose, when you think about it, I may not actually be that bad of a choice. I may not have the most popular blog around, but it definitely has a readership, and that readership is continually growing. I’ve also got some first hand experience on the value of blogs as marketing tools, and I have more direct experience with internet marketing through my position at Triworks which, while not a marketing company per se, certainly requires me to think about internet marketing and the issues related to it.
At any rate, they also asked me to spread the love and forward the invitation on to other progressive bloggers in the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville area. I’ll be sending it along to those bloggers whom I already know of course, but there are certainly others out there that have slipped my mind. So if you fit into that category, feel free to contact me and I’ll forward the invitation to you (I’m not about to publish the cell phone number I was given to RSVP to…). It’s just too bad that Bruce isn’t around any more…
April 24th, 2007 22:58
I’m in Newton, but my blog is definately progressive a good amount of the time. I’d like to see the invitation.
April 24th, 2007 23:41
I’d be interested in seeing it too! Thanks!
April 26th, 2007 17:15
And me three! I’ve promoted Wainwright many times on LiveJournal and Universal Hub, but they didn’t invite me. Waaah.
April 27th, 2007 11:09
Ron:
I’m the guy who instigated the meeting with considerable assist from Sam Seidel.
I’m sorry that we missed inviting you to the meeting. I’m sure there will be more. The folks at Wainwright do appreciate your continual plugs for the bank.
~Simon
April 28th, 2007 12:33
[...] I’m sure some people are just dying to know how the meeting I was invited to with the co-President and co-Founder or Wainwright Bank, Robert Glassman, went. First off, two of the other bloggers who where there, Shai Sachs of Progressive Democrats of Cambridge and Joseph Porcelli of Neighbors for Neighbors, have already written up some excellent posts about it, and you can probably expect to see more in the near future from Jessi as well as maybe over at Cos’s blog, Sam Seidel’s blog, or Anali’s First Amendment. But for now, here’s my take on it. [...]