Yesterday was Northern Voice 2006: Canada’s blogging conference. James and I attended and it was great to see our blogging friends and geek out a bit. The day opened with Julie Leung speaking about why stories are essential and how to blog effective tales. Next up was Dave Sifry and Tim Bray’s musings on the blogosphere. Apparently a new weblog is created every second of every day. Over 50% of new blogs are still active after 3 months.
Other sessions I attended were
Susannah Gardner‘s I’m Too Sexy for My Blog: Blog Design for Everyone.
Susannah is the author of Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies, a book for business professionals looking for advice and solutions for business blogging. You can get a discount of all Dummies books instore at Chapters/Indigo this month. I highly recommend this book.
I also attended
The Changing Face of Journalism with Mark Schneider, Robert Ouiment and Michael Tippett
Eric Rice’s Everything Casting: Podcasting and Vlogging for the Masses
I wanted to Geek Out with Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble and Will Pate. And I was interested in Five Ways Your Blog Can Change the World, but my back was breaking. I worked really hard last week and to add on a 2-day conference was perhaps a bit much.
Here’s to taking a break.