Back from Blog World
by Michael HoffmanTuesday, September 23rd, 2008
I was in Las Vegas over the weekend for Blog World and New Media Expo. It was terrific, mostly because of the people who attended, some of the best bloggers and new media people around. We had @chrisbrogan, @msaleem, @jasonfalls, @lizstrauss, @stoweboyd, @guykawasaki, and many many others (@name is Twitter handle).
Some of the conference highlights were the session with Tim Ferriss (4 Hour Work Week) and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.
The best way for sure to get the gist of what I learned is from Twitter. In every session people were Tweeting their notes.
If you don’t know Twitter, sign up. It’s basically micro-blogging — blog posts of 140 characters or less. It is also a social network, in that you follow the posts of specific people and they follow you. But you also have tags on Twitter, so everyone writing on a same topic can add a tag (in Twitter a tag starts with a #) and you can see a live stream of all posts with that tag.
So, for example, check out:
#bwe08 — this is the main conference tag
My session tag was #nminside
We had notes like this:
Blogging is a promise, if you’re not willing to fulfill that promise, you shouldn’t blog #nminside #bwe08
Q: How do we control comments? Brand control issues, we’re moving towards a world of radical transperancy #nminside #bwe08
Another interesting one was #cred and #asse9
If you aren’t sure what to do with these, go to Twitter Search and type in the tag with the #
And if you are not, follow me on Twitter @Michael_Hoffman and @See3
