By Miiko Mentz
Internet Geek Girl Stephanie Agresta interviews Blog World Expo’s Dave Cynkin at the Las Vegas TechSet party on September 19th, which took place at Bare, Mirage Hotel’s adult poolside bar & cabanas. Stephanie talks to Dave about the evolution of Blog World Expo, now in its second year. Dave is a co-producer of Blog World Expo along with his partners Rick Calvert and Libby Durfee.
Blog World Expo, an industry trade show and conference for all things blogging and new media, took place last month at the Las Vegas Convention Center where a roster of 248 speakers came together to educate, learn, share, converse and network with both seasoned and first-time bloggers, podcasters and new media enthusiasts. Our very own Brian Solis spoke on a few panels, as did Stephanie Agresta and Bub.blicio.us guest blogger Larry Chiang.
New to this year’s Blog World Expo was a pilot-program, the Citizen Journalism Workshop, which offered workshops on journalism writing, content and style; another about how to find good stories online by using investigative journalism techniques; and one on how to reduce your risk of a lawsuit.
In addition to the Citizen Journalism Workshop, there was a Citizen Journalism track that included a session on Microjournalism: Breaking News in 140 Words or Less, where Laura Fitton, Robert Scoble and Doc Searls discussed the impact that micro-publishing, such as Twitter, has had and where it might be headed. The Bub.blicio.us video crew caught up with Scoble and Searls after their session and we will post that interview, along with a few others, later this week and next, so stay tuned.
Despite a struggling economy, the companies and bloggers came out in force and it was a great conference; and the TechSet Las Vegas party was the perfect kick-off.
TechSet Las Vegas was produced by Stephanie Agresta and Brian Solis, and sponsored by Canvas on Demand, Empressr, (mt) Media Temple, MindTouch, ShareThis and Tagga. I want to thank all of them for a fabulous event and I look forward to covering the next one.
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