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title: "Notes on Northern Voice 2006"
description: "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..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2006/02/12/notes-on-northern-voice-2006/
date: 2006-02-12
modified: 2006-02-12
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
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# Notes on Northern Voice 2006

![](http://buzzmarketingwithblogs.com/images/cover.gif)Yesterday was (http://2006.northernvoice.ca/): Canada’s blogging conference. (http://www.upinontario.com) and I attended and it was great to see our blogging friends and geek out a bit. The day opened with (http://2006.northernvoice.ca/speakers/starting-with-fire) 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

(http://buzzmarketingwithblogs.com/)‘s I’m Too Sexy for My Blog: Blog Design for Everyone.

Susannah is the author of (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=somisguided-20&camp=15121&creative=330641&path=ASIN%2F076458457X%2Fqid%253D1139783122) 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.