Jody DeVere, president of Ask Patty, featured speaker at Six Apart Automotive Business Blogging Conference.
Detroit, MI (PRWEB) September 20, 2006 –- Six Apart announced that Jody DeVere, President of AskPatty.com Inc., will be a featured speaker at their Automotive Business Blogging Conference in Detroit on October 30, 2006. The Six Apart conference will be held at the Westin Southfield in Detroit, Michigan. Registration can be found at the Six Apart website at http://www.sixapart.com/business/seminars/.
Six Apart, maker of the world's premier blogging software, including Movable Type, Movable Type Enterprise and TypePad Business Class, is presenting a comprehensive series of half-day seminars to discuss the benefits, challenges and best practices of business blogging.
The Ask Patty business blog, ( http://askpatty.typepad.com) launched May 21st, 2006, provides a safe place for women to get advice on car purchases, maintenance and other automotive related topics online. Women purchase over 50% of all vehicles sold in the United States each year and influence 85% of the buying decisions, spending over $80 billion. Ask Patty answers the need for women who need answers to their automotive questions. Women can also search for Ask Patty certified ‘female friendly’ dealerships in their area on the Ask Patty.com website.
GM’s Fast Lane blog will also a featured section of the Six Apart conference as well.
Following registration, Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist of Six Apart, will discuss building your strategy and establishing policy in corporate blogging. Jody DeVere of Ask Patty will speak next, focusing on connecting with the automotive audience through community activation. The case study on how GM hit the Fast Lane with corporate blogging will complete the session. There will be cocktails and networking following all speakers.
“We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of companies deploying business blogs, and the reason is simple: They’re a safe, simple way to help companies communicate more effectively,” stated Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist for Six Apart.
“I am excited to be speaking at Six Apart’s Business Blogging Conference,” says Jody DeVere, President of Ask Patty. DeVere continues, “I am an avid user of my TypePad blog and Six Apart has a wealth of tools available to the blogging community. I encourage other automotive professionals to attend and learn from our experiences.”
These events bring together blogging experts and professionals from different industries and provide attendees with a chance to participate in seminar sessions that will showcase the ways blogs impact business and allow for better communication with the audiences that your organization cares about. Whether it's talking to employees, partners, current customers or potential customers, blogging gets results.
You can purchase advanced registration for $75 until October 16, 2006 by going to the Six Apart registration page. Standard registration begins October 17, 2006 and will be $150.
About AskPatty.com, Inc:
Ask Patty provides women consumers an opportunity to send questions about car buying, selling, repair and maintenance to a panel of expert automotive women and is a safe online place to share and discuss their car buying experiences. Women can submit posts directly to the Ask Patty website by going to the http://www.askpatty.com. The Ask Patty advisory panel of automotive expert women is headed up by Deborah Renshaw -- professional NASCAR driver, and is comprised of women who hold various leadership positions in the automotive industry.
Women purchase over 50% of all vehicles sold in the United States each year and influence 85% of the buying decisions, spending over $80 billion. Yet, shopping for and buying a car can be a challenge for women who are first time car buyers or for women who had a bad experience in the past with a car salesman or dealership.
Ask Patty is a safe place for women to get advice on car purchases, maintenance and other automotive related topics. Women can Ask Patty for automotive advice on the Ask Patty "Get Advice" blog by clicking here: Ask Patty Blog); Patty will typically reply back to you the same day. Selected questions and answers will be answered by the panel of automotive women experts for the benefit of all women.
AskPatty.com is endorsed and in partnership with CarsMagazine.com, (http://carsmagazine.com), a member and 2006 corporate sponsor of the Women's Automotive Association International based in Detroit, MI, (http://www.waai.com), on the Women's Board of the Car Care Council, (http://carcare.org), a SEMA member (http://www.SEMA.org) and a member of the SEMA Business Women's Networking Group.
About Six Apart:
Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart has grown into a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan.
The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. In June 2006 Six Apart introduced a preview version of Vox, a hosted personal blogging service that will be publicly available in late 2006. For more information, visit the Six Apart corporate blog at http://www.sixapart.com.
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