Six Apart on the Road
Starting this week, Anil and I will be making the rounds on various panels discussing particular aspects of weblogging.
We'd love for these conferences to be an opportunity to meet our users, learn about what they're doing in the space and answer any questions they might have about our products or about the company.
We're especially looking to find out more about the needs of those audiences as we plan our upcoming release of Movable Type Pro, which will be aimed at intranet, marketing, nanopublishing, and power users.
If any of these topics interest you, be sure to check these conferences out. And if you can attend, come up and say hello to either Anil or myself.
Blogs and the formation of new online communities (June 6)
PlanetWork, June 6-8, San Francisco, CA
"This panel will explore blogs as "the new community" and the foundation of an emergent media. We will explore the use of blogs for individual expression as well a tool for connecting people and sharing ideas. We will also discuss the challenges and opportunities blogs present from the perspective of information discovery, delivery and management." On the panel with Mena will be Jason Shellen (Blogger/Google) Dave Sifry (Technorati) Rebecca Blood (rebeccablood.net)
Blogging Technologies And Platforms: Today And Tomorrow (June 9)
ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, June 9-10, Boston MA
"Blogging has been around at least since 1999, yet it's rapidly growing in both power and popularity. What technologies are driving blogging, and how are blogging and weblog technologies driving the evolution of the Web -- plus journalism and other categories?" Moderated by Doc Searls (Linux Journal). On the panel with Anil will be Dan Bricklin (Interland, Inc), Bob Frankston, Michael Gartenberg (Jupiter), John Robb (Userland), and Jason Shellen (Blogger)
Intro to Business Blogs (June 12)
E-Commerce Special Interest Group June 12, New York, NY
Anil joins Rick E. Bruner (MarketingFix.com), Elizabeth Spiers (Gawker.com), Aaron Bailey (601am.com ) and John Lawlor (Blogs4Business.com) in a panel discussion on weblogs in business. Questions to be asked: Why is blogging a popular new media phenomena? How should you conduct PR to blogs? Can you make money off a blog? How? How do you see blogging evolving in the next three years. Followed by networking, roundtable discussion and audience Q&A.
New Platforms, New User Experiences (June 8)
Supernova, July 8-9, Washington DC
"The environment that drove the Internet's personal computer and static Web pages -- is ten years old and showing its age. Native Internet content forms such as Weblogs and rich media applications are evolving rapidly. Innovation is shifting from the PC to an array of devices, from mobile phones to home media servers. Adjusting to these changes involves a novel combination of design, technology, and business savv, so as to create experiences that match users' expectations and needs." Moderated by Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing). On the panel with Mena will be Kevin Lynch (Macromedia), Merrill Brown (RealNetworks), John Ko (Cincro) and RJ Pittman (Groxis).
Some very interesting discussions are sure to result and if we're lucky, we might just find some time to sneak in some mentions of weblogging.
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It's a bit further into the future, but have you considered the Gnomedex conference on July 25th/26th in Des Moines, Iowa? Evan Williams was speaking there last year, and I'm sure you'd be more than welcome. I'd go if I wasn't stuck on the wrong side of the Atlantic. See http://www.gnomedex.com/ for more.
Have you considered that there are quite a few more computer literate people here in Atlanta than you'd think. A trip here might win the hearts of many more.
Atlanta would be quite a decent destination. I know of at least 125 people from just one school that I know would most definitely attend, not to mention the many others in the surrounding area.
Just a thought.
And what about Europe, where there are computer literate people as well and they seem to be using using other tools according to http://www.idlewords.com/crawler/crawl_report.pl MovableType rank 3rd in the English blogging community, but only 9th in the non-English community
And some provider getting good press releases:
http://www.01net.com/article/209834.html
Thanks to everyone for the feedback... right now we're not planning on hosting any conferences ourselves, just attending ones that've already been arranged, but we'll keep an eye out for any events that give us a pretense for visiting our users around the world.
You would be in DC the week before I get married, wouldn't you? :)
I wasn't planning on attending the conference (paying for a wedding and all), but I am taking the week off and getting down into the DC area is never a problem.
Hi, I met and talked with you at O'Reilly about NECC, National Education Computing Conference in Seattle at the end of June. I am working with a group to organize a panel/meeting of education related webloggers at NECC. We have a meeting room booked and would enjoy having you attend. Many of these attending use tools other than Movable Type and are not fully aware of all the features of Movable Type. If you would like to be part of this and be on a panel, please let me know.
Your business blogs panel seems to be about how to make money out of blogs. I suppose that's one meaning of business blogs.
But I had thought that a blog would be a very useful interna tool for almost any business. Right now I get a pile of junk via e-mail that is only moderately time sensitive and would be far more appropriate to put on a blog.
One example of a good internal business blog is the UofToronto SARS page. I can see many other applications of this type. This use of blogs positions them as a business communications tool, like a RIM pager, instead of 'new media'. A less glamorous point of view, but perhaps more profitable.
But my own organization, and probably many others, are far too conservative to use a tool that isn't already widely accepted as a successful business tool. So I suppose you all have a lot of evangelizing to do.
hi
when is the think pad available cuz i am about to sign up for a moveable blog and i think the pad sounds like a good step but i dont want to wait for a long time
hi
when is the type pad available cuz i am about to sign up for a moveable blog and i think the pad sounds like a good step but i dont want to wait for a long time
I second the Des Moines idea.
I found movable type a bit hard o manage with too many entries - we are updating design pretty often and rebuilding all pages is a bit inconvenient. But all the rest is just perfect.