Ebay Live Boston 2007 Received Community Hall of Fame Award

Exciting news! I could not tell you about it until the event was over! I received one of 5 Community Hall of Fame Awards given out by Ebay this year! The award is for being a good member of the Ebay community, helping others , and names are suggested by former winners and Ebay employees from what I understand. It was a great award to win! I received the honor of directing a $2500 donation to Solar Youth Inc from Ebay. Solar Youth is an organization that teaches inner city kids about the environment through all kinds of great activities. When I saw a video of the kids climbing a local hill and their faces I said you bet this is the one! I also received a wonderful plaque and a crystal award of stars that fit into a plaque, a part of which is to be placed in Ebays corporate HQ. I could not have won this without all my friends at Ebay and my fellow eBay seller friends that pulled this part of me out into the open. I realize I want to do as much as possible to help other people and I was very honored to receive this award which will mark an important time in my life when I realized I need to spend more time helping others. Here are a few pictures for you! -Marty

PS - If anyone from ebay reads this blog post.. Thank you ! So much please thank Meg and Bill for me! :)

Ebay LIVE Boston - Pre Conference Report 6/9/07

Well , it is almost time for Ebay Live 2007 in Boston, Mass! The conference runs June 14-16th but already there are some hints of some important things going on. One interesting thing is that Seth Godin the Squidoo visionary will be speaking. The guy is a guru for sure. I only wish I had more time to digest all he has writen. I will be attending his class at eBay Live and Squidoo will have a presence there.

There are some interesting classes in the schedule for Live. There is one on eBays new media market. It has been a struggle for eBay but it might be an area where local radio commercials become available for bidding fairly soon. I also heard (non-eBay related) that Cable now has the ability to pinpoint ads to your neighborhood. If this is every offered in an eBay like marketplace I can see huge potential for local business.

Speaking of Local business I am curious about the the class offered called "Ebay Local" and wondering if that is an expansion of their home page "Map It" feature or something new, different and Craigslist like? I am in that class!

I will be reporting here LIVE from LIVE so to speak. There are some other areas we are curious about including Rent.com (an Ebay company) since my wife is also a real estate agent.

If you have ideas/comments about live feel free to post! -Marty

(picture if of a Plush DICE radio we have in our store!)