There are few services that I love to use. One of these is Mailchimp. It’s a great Email Marketing platform that you easily use and have fun! It’s the company that when you send an Email campaign, it tells you: “Great Job Nikos, have a banana!” These are some of Freddie’s (the chimp) messages that I see every day on my screen.

Anyway, the reason of this post is a video that they posted today on their blog. They talk about the story of “Rudy”, an Email Marketing guy who spams people in order to satisfy his boss. For you that are working in the email marketing (or you want to know more about that) take a look:

Mailchimp has also a Blip.fm account where you can subscribe and listen to their music selections. Good job guys!

1. Tell a consistent story
2. Engage your fans in a conversation
3. Connect the content
4. Fish where the fish are
5. Reinvent business

You can also view the video version here.

It’s one of these times that you find a website that you like. You add it in your bookmarks, you watch all its videos, you buy the book and you even buy one of its notebooks. The 99 Percent is not about ideas.. It’s about making ideas happen. It started in 2009 as a conference and now is a website with videos, articles and tips on how to make your ideas happen.

The creation of 99%, which was launched with our inaugural conference in 2009, sprung from the belief that, as creative professionals, we often focus too much on idea generation and not enough on execution.

There are several inspiring videos on 99%. Seth Godin talks about quieting our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. Jack Dorsey talks about Twitter’s success and Threadless founders say: The Do-First Work Ethic. Take a look on the 99% latest videos.

Stop thinking and start making this brilliant idea come true!

Event: WordCamp 2009 (San Francisco)

Date: Saturday 30th of May

The ‘WordCamp 2009‘ is the event of the year for the bloggers of Bay Area (and the rest of the world). I was there as a volunteer! I was excited to be there, meet people, help on the event and listen to all these different speakers. The list of the speakers was long and very interesting!

More than 700 people attended the event. There were very interesting presentations. John Lilly the CEO of Mozilla spoke about Firefox and the use of blogs. Chris Pirillo talked about Online Communities and Tim Ferriss talked about his blog and his experience with WordPress. The two most exciting presentations were the ones from Matts! Matt Cutts and Matt Mullenweg rock! The one is an expert of Google SEO and page rank and the other one is the CEO of Automattic (WordPress)

Pictures of the event and the video with the highlights!

But who is Chris Pirillo?

Chris Pirillo has been participating in Internet conversations since 1992, having launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and building Gnomedex to be one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded conferences. He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube. When searching Google for “Chris,” his site is listed as the first result. He’s a monthly columnist for CPU Magazine, and has authored books on business and personal technology. Chris also produces weekly video segments for CNN.com Live, where he offers tech advice to a savvy audience. (WordCamp.org)

Take a look on a part of his presentation.

A post about WordCamp 2009 is coming….