Tag: #bwe08

Step One To Blogging… Listen

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One more thing from Blog World Expo, this time on IT-Pro, and what business and enterprise could learn from the conference attendees… While blogs are still considered to be written by individuals from their own viewpoints, a number of companies have presence online in this space – and it’s proving to be a worthwhile investment. That was among the messages from the many professional and corporate bloggers at the recent Blog World Expo. Indeed, at one time, a corporate website was the exception, not the rule. This has obviously changed, and most people expect businesses to become more involved in

Personal thoughts on this year’s Blog World Expo

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As I’ve mentioned before, I couldn’t make the August ‘blog conference in Las Vegas,’ namely Tim Bourquin’s New Media Expo, due to commitments for the Edinburgh Fringe, but the second year of Rick Calvert’s Blog World Expo was on my radar as a potential gig to go to. Thanks to some work comissioned to report on the conference, I was all set for a lightning trip to Las Vegas. Flying out on Friday morning from Edinburgh, returning from the Nevada city on the Monday afternoon left little time for the body clock to get remotely close to the right time-zone

Blog World Expo Report – The Professional View (via BBC News)

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I’ll be doing a more personal look from my time at last weekend’s Blog World Expo in the next few days, but I’ve (a) got some catching up to do after spending a carbon-footprint decadant long weekend in Las Vegas and (b) the paying gigs come first. In the meantime you can get my professional thoughts via BBC News. The advertising slogan says that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But at Blogworld Expo it was more likely to appear online, either written up on a website, as a photo on image sharing sites such as Flickr, or as

Off To Las Vegas and BlogWorldExpo

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I’m writing this in the American Airlines Lounge at Heathrow, after the first leg of the trip to Las Vegas. Edinburgh to Heathrow just proves Terminal 5, and specifically transfers from T5 to T3 (where the American flights are) is pretty hellish, and much worse than T1 to T3 ever was (and I have to say I think today’s transfer went very smooth). Anyway, from here it’s on to Dallas, then into Las Vegas. Should be getting in around 8pm local time, and after stopping off to freshen up at the Excalibur Hotel, I’ll be heading to the TechSet party.