My Blog World Expo Sessions
Whew! Blog World Expo is just a few days away! And between all the great bloggers coming, the apparently packed show floor and the fantastic speakers this could be the largest blogging event ever!
If you haven’t registered yet, I really do recommend it. There are still pretty reasonable flights on Virgin America, and Expedia is still showing decent prices on the main strip at the Luxor and Hard Rock, so you can probably do the whole conference for about 1500$ including travel, admission, food, cabs and parties. Not cheap, but it’s going to be a fantastic event!
In terms of my involvement, obviously b5media is doing an entire day of content (free to all registrants) on Wednesday. I’ll be doing a morning session with Allen from CenterNetworks on how to “thrive as a B-List blogger”. I’d argue that I’m not really even B List anymore (more of a D, since reposting my Twitters doesn’t really count as blogging!) and Allen’s almost big enough (no pun intended) to be an A Lister…
But still!
The session will be some of us interviewing each other, some of us ranting and some of us sharing some practical ways that you can find the “gold in them thar hills” of being a B Lister. End of the day, the A List is where the chest pounding happens and the B List is where great content gets written… So “only” being a B Lister is a good thing ;-)
Later the same day I’ll be sharing a session on how b5media is doing, how we’ve grown and where we’re going. This is, understandably, a closed session for bloggers, journalists, analysts, investors, partners, etc. In reality, I’m most nervous about this session, because I’m talking talking to our “family” (bloggers, team, etc) on one hand, but to the folk who watch us like hawks on the other. Should be an interesting challenge. My gut is I’ll likely play more to the folk who know and love b5 than the hawks, but y’never know!
Thursday will be spent mostly at our booth, doing meetings and interviews and playing poker (in case you weren’t aware, we’re “auctioning” tonnes of prizes, and the best way to win “money” for the “auctions” is at the poker table at our booth - specifically for beating me, where you get double your winnings!).
Thursday afternoon I’ll be on a panel with someone from Technorati and someone from Pajamas Media. You may remember PJM from a year or two ago where they raised funding (as I recall) and then largely fizzled out of the mainstream blogosphere’s awareness. Apparently they’re still around, so it’ll be interesting to hear what they’ve been up to.
The session will likely focus on how blogging, specifically networks, is changing the way folk consume news and such, and thus is changing the MSM. Should be fun and interesting.
Friday will be spent at the booth and such. Saturday will be take-down and hanging with the team. Sunday is travel. Monday is my son’s birthday. Tuesday I’m back at the office ready to close out an the incredible year 2007 has been for b5 as well as for me personally.
As a sidenote, for those who’ve been watching our unfolding Gateway strategy, Spekked.com just released its new revision (we’re doing monthly releases). The team is still bug-fixing, but feature improvements include article pages, a Spoilers section, expanded/improved homepage, new feeds, the ability to login/register and favourite items, as well as an archive for Featured articles. Over the next couple of weeks the team will continue to refine and improve these features in preparation for our last big launch of the year, sometime mid-November, which’ll bring membership/profiles/contributions much more to the forefront.
Have a great weekend all :)
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May 20, 2008 at 1:19 pm
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