How Not To Do A Conference Blog

Please, not like this (sorry Mike…my opinion). Unless you are called Heath Row, usually stream-of-consciousness live blogging (transcript-type) from a conference is not the best idea. People keep forgetting: byte-sized chunks. That’s the blog meme, that’s the promise. Also, coherence, and a post pegged around a central theme…

My contention: don’t fool yourself…there’s very little news or real analysis coming out of any of these conferences, unless it is something like CES. You’re doing your blog readers a disservice by making it difficult for them to make out what you’re trying to say.

Yep, there a different vibe to live blogging, but just branding it “live” should do the trick, and stick to bringing that energy out…if you’re posting after a 5-15 minutes delay, it is fine, usually (Keep in mind, I am only talking about conferences like those that happen in our industry). I am beginning to realize that audio blogging, combined with these text blogs, would be a good way to do it, and I am going to try it at an October conference I am at…

At the cost of tooting my own horn, here’s how I usually do it from conferences…

Example 1, example 2, example 3 & example 4

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