Conference Blogging

Easton at BusinessBlogWire was at the University Private Equity Summit, and blogged the event.  He took away some lessons. Among them:

• Liveblogging is difficult unless you're a world-class typist.
  
• Wouldn't it be nice to make a conference wiki and enlist the help of
  conference attendees in preserving an excellent record of the event?
• I think we'll start seeing more and more conferences - no matter what
  they are about - done completely (or at least in large measure) online.

Not sure I agree with Easton on the last point.  I think we'll see more conference blogs, but there's something valuable about being in the same room with the folks you're perhaps wanting to do business with. Aside from that, let's face it -- there are a lot of parties at these things, and nobody wants to give those up, especially when the boss is paying.

I did something like this with the Missouri Governor's Conference on Tourism.  It was fun, it was a great experience.  And if I do say so myself, it's a pretty good repository of information about what went on at the event -- not bad for a one-man band without an Internet connection in the room.

Comments

[Easton Ellsworth]

Good point about the continued existence of "real-life" conferences - people will never be able to pass up free food and other perks :). And there's also that important element of personal face-to-face connection and interaction that you can't duplicate (at least not yet, not by a long shot) with digital video, microphones and Web access.

Thanks for the link to what you did at the Missouri tourism conference. It'll provide a good point of reference if Know More Media decides to blog another conference. I had spotty wireless Web access at the summit last Friday, so my posting was erratic - I know a little of what you must have gone through!

[Matt O'Neill]

Hi,

I'm in the UK and am finding the market for conference blogs is growing rapidly.

Not sure you need to be a 'world class typist' though. The main lesson I learnt from the first commercial conference blog was that it helps if you've got an assistant. This was particularly pertinent as I was trying to do audio interviews and photography at the same time.

Overall, very hard to do by yourself if you're creating mixed media with it. (btw, the event blog was at http://activate.typepad.com.reachout).

Great to see other people like yourself thinking about it!

Matt

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