We Are Live!

Hello, Billy Jones, AKA Billy The Blogging Poet, here, live at the first annual Piedmont Blogger's conference, welcoming all of you to the first of what we hope are many great get-toghters as those of us who have built friendships and associations through the web finally meet face to face to discuss our passion-- blogging.

Stay tuned for more updates from myself and others.

schedule

A schedule for tomorrow's conference.

9:00 - 9:20 Enter, meet and greet.

9:20-9:30 Welcome and Intro

9::30-10:40 Politics, campaigns, advocacy, and governance

break

10:50-12:00 Journalism and personal media

break

12:10 - 1:00 Blogs as culture and community *

end of planned program

LUNCH

We have the room all day. Anyone who wants to reconvene after lunch for conversation, tutorials, etc. may do so. Hoggard and I will be available all afternoon.

* This session was inspired by the fact we are meeting in art museum, and that made me think about blogs not just reflectling local culture, but being part of it, and helping restore local and regional conversations in an era of commoditized, nationalized culture. These blogs also informed that thought process.

In the venue...

Hoggard and I are in the auditorium of the Weatherspoon.

We will not have wi-fi on Saturday, but there is a terminal with an Internet connection, which I am now using.

On Saturday, anyone who is here can contribute to this blog in real time.

Also, those of you with blogs that run on Blogger, TypePad, and other hosted apps can use this terminal to update if you wish.

And we can show on the big screen the blogs of bloggers as they speak.

Welcome PBC04

This is the blog set up for the Piedmont Blog Conference.

What: Discussion of weblogs and politics, weblogs and media, weblogs and...

When: Saturday, August 28, 2004, 9 AM

Where: Greensboro, NC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, corner Spring Garden and TateFree parking in back
Directions, map.

Who: Candidates, bloggers, media, readers...moderators include Matt Gross, Ruby Sinreich, David Hoggard, and Ed Cone

How much: Free

RSVP/questions/comments:

Ed Cone efcone@mindspring.com 336 378 2516
David Hoggard dhoggard@triad.rr.com