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Shel Israel, co-author of Naked Conversations will be leading the opening session at BlogOrlando 2007. Shel is a good friend and I'm delighted he'll be making the journey from California to sunny Orlando.
As the event draws closer we'll be posting complete session intros and the finalized schedule. Stay tuned.
Jeremy Harrington has worked up a new I'll Be There button for the 2007 edition of BlogOrlando.
You can grab the code here:
BarCampOrlando is being planned, via a party of course. The initial get together is on Saturday, June 23rd. I imagine we'll be able to follow along on the BarCampOrlando site.
Annie and the rest of the BlogPhiladelphia crew have posted an initial list of sessions for their event. Check em out and then go register.
We have two more confirmed session leaders for BlogOrlando 2007:
Mindy McAdams - University of Florida
Judson Collier - Macteens
Mindy is the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Florida and will be part of the Journalism/Media track which is shaping up nicely.
Our resident Disney expert and Saturday host, John Frost from The Disney Blog, suggests that we choose a park other than Magic Kingdom for our Saturday adventures. While I am a big fan of Animal Kingdom, it closes at dusk. That leaves Epcot or MGM. Tough call.
EPCOT has great food/beverages, the Illuminations show and favorites rides like Soarin and Finding Nemo. MGM has Tower of Terror and the new Stunt Show....hmmm. Still a tough call.
What are your thoughts?
Session tracks at BlogOrlando will focus on:
- Local/Florida
- Marketing & Communication
- Journalism/Media
- Society
- Developers
- Newbies
Now all of these will not be concurrent. Most likely the day will split up with two or perhaps three concurrent tracks. The tough part is figuring our what not to overlap :-)
Things are coming together!
After a busy morning of e-mails, IMs and tweets I can list some confirmed session leaders for BlogOrlando 2007. The titles of the discussions are still being finalized as well as the schedule, but at least you can see some names now :-)
Confirmed 2007 BlogOrlando Session Leaders:
Dave Coustan, Atlanta, GA - Earthlink
Annie Heckenberger, Philadelphia, PA - Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation
David Parmet, Pound Ridge, NY - Marketing Begins at Home
Ike Pigott, Birmingham, AL - American Red Cross
Ryan Price, Orlando, FL - Ryan Price Media
Connie Reece, Austin, TX - Every Dot Connects
John Rife, Orlando, FL - Finding America
Alex Rudloff, Orlando, FL - eMurse
Danny Sanchez, Orlando, FL - Orlando Sentinel Community Blogs
Sessions will include: Social Media & Tourism, Blogger Relations, Crisis Communication & Social Media, Podcasting, Videoblogging, Community Blogs & the Media, Community Building....just to name a few.
I'll be posting the names of other confirmed speakers as we get them. There are about 10 more names to add to the list!
I just created a Twitter account for BlogOrlando: http://twitter.com/blogorlando
Annie Heckenberger just sent out the official announcement about BlogPhiladelphia which will be held on July 12-13, 2007 in Philadelphia of course.
Here are the details:
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) and uwishunu.com are pleased to announce the inaugural BLOGPHILADELPHIA.This two-day “unconference” will be open to bloggers and non-bloggers alike. There will be a few panels featuring leading tech pioneers spanning a wide spectrum of technology platforms and social media experience. We also plan to bring together a good cross-section of experts to lead break-out sessions covering various areas of social media: avatars, blogging/vlogging, mobile/sms technologies, online & mobile social networks, podcasting, PR in the world of CGM, virtual communities, community-edited news sites, social bookmarking, and of course, where and how marketing fits into all of this.
Whew! Overwhelmed yet?
Well, don’t be! As we all know – there are no established experts in this evolving field. That’s why the unconference format is a great opportunity to catch up with other like-minded individuals and innovators and swap intel.
And of course, while you’re here in Philly, we’ll getcha a cheesesteak and then run it off with a ceremonial Rocky-esque run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You better believe that’s going up on Blip.Tv and Youtube.com!
I've been working with Annie behind-the-scenes on this event for quite a while. Their plan was to model this after BlogOrlando, which BTW will be held on Sept 27-29 this year :-)
I'll be in Philly, will you? If I lived in the Northeast I'd probably hop on the train to head down, but a train trip from Orlando to Philly would be an adventure in itself.
