I have been planning a new (hopefully interesting) addition to my blog with a new series of monthly blog interviews – the “iDea” series. The monthly iDea posts will feature interviews with prominent bloggers across a diverse range of subjects (e.g. web 2.0, word-of-mouth, etc…)

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I’ve had a chance to meet with bloggers from different fields (from Genealogy to web 2.0). Marketing impacts all of us and I know there are a lot of untold marketing best practices (e.g. web 2.0 tools) that I’d like to unearth via iDea.

Why is iDea different?:

i. Blogger-to-blogger (blogger community/marketing focus)
ii. 10 questions only (follow-up comments possible)
iii. 1 interview/month

How does iDea work?:

i. iDea interview details will be posted on the 1st day of every month on my blog. You can send in your questions to me (via email: vjmario@yahoo.com) over the first two weeks of the month.

ii. Final list of 10 questions will be consolidated and sent to the featured blogger.

iii. Interview will be posted on the last day of the month. It’s that simple.

iDea series’ Blogger of the month – July 2006

Without further ado, I’d like to introduce to you the 1st blogger to be featured on the iDea series, my good friend — Jeremiah Owyang.

As I often repeat, Jeremiah is one of the reasons I blog today. He is a Corporate Web Strategist and Business Blog Evangelist. He publishes his blog at “Web Strategy by Jeremiah“. (http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/).

You can get a better idea of Jeremiah’s areas of interest through the white paper he co-wrote on “How Business & I.T should work together to manage “web 2.0” tools“.

Next Steps:

i. So feel free to just email me (vjmario@yahoo.com) the questions you’d like to ask Jeremiah on all things web 2.0 & marketing.

ii. Last date for questions: July 14th, 2006 (Friday)

iii. Date I’ll publish the interview: July 31st, 2006 (Monday)

Jeremiah, thanks for agreeing to be featured on “iDea”. Are you ready?