You sure have a lot of personal stories to tell. I am waiting for my stories to happen :D - Yasser

I got a chance to work at MIT :-) - Ricardo Vidal

I interviewed one of my heroes, Felsenstein, and one of the researchers I most admire, Rod Page. Unfortunately not in person, but I guess they will invite for some coffee or tea if I ever show up on their door. - Paulo Nuin

I got the job at PLoS in the comments of one of my blog posts: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - Bora Zivkovic

I'd like to share these stories too; giving a talk in a couple of weeks to postgrad students on the benefits of reading + writing blogs - Neil Saunders

Got invited to SciFoo - Pedro Beltrao

+1 Pedro: I got invited to write an article for Nature, and then got invited to SciFoo - Richard Akerman

Thank you, guys, for the great stories. I will share these with students this week. - Berci Mesko, MD

I was invited to write a column on 3QuarksDaily; as a result of the Open Science stuff I posted there, I was interviewed by Mitch Waldrop for Scientific American; as a result of that interview, I was invited to give a seminar on OA; as a result of that seminar, I was invited to join the advisory board of the Berglund Center at Pacific U. Also, I would never have met the BioGang if I'd never blogged. - Bill Hooker

Too many to mention. Highlights include people I've been able to get to know both virtually in person, the ability to participate in events I probably would not have otherwise. Specific highlights would include Scifoo and being interviewed by Jon Udell. And if I can put a plug in for Twitter, I kinda applied for a job on Twitter :) - Deepak Singh

Specifics - invitation to SciFoo, invitation to Science iin 21st Century and being at the conferences were real personal highlights. Meeting smart and interesting people online and in person. More generally the communication and connections have changed and are still changing the way I think about things. - Cameron Neylon

as a student, I'm impressed when the author of a paper I discuss contacts me to continue the discussion. otherwise, as a librarian, I've gotten to discuss interaction issues with a few vendor reps and I've gotten a few speaking gigs out of it. - Christina Pikas

Couple of things: I got my mentors (convinced few smart people to become my small advisory board); got involved in scientific collaboration (with Cameron); I was interviewed by a polish magazine about Science 2.0. When article about S2.0 was published, I was contacted by people building science-business collaboration platform in Poland (there's something coming next year); most importantly learned quite a lot and changed career plans - but that doesn't sound very cool, does it? ;) - Pawel Szczesny

I was interviewed by ABC.com for a piece they wrote about customer service agents because of a blog post I'd written about my days as a CS rep. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

funding from Submeta, superb collaborators, trip to UK, invitations to speak at confs, consulting work and just plain fun - Jean-Claude Bradley

My invitation to SciFoo 07 - Pierre Lindenbaum

Should probably add speaking gigs, or was that because of friendfeed? - Deepak Singh

I got my current job because of my blog and through reading other blogs. Started talking with the guy who hired me over IM because of a few blogs that he had done regarding cat litter and RIM Blackberry cell phones. - Alex Scoble

I'm just a newbie so don't have any stories to share...yet. Over on Nature Network, Martin Fenner is asking a similar question of the NN bloggers - http://tinyurl.com/5mrxaj - Helen Jaques