Between Bill and I (I grew up in St. Louis), I wager we can make that $500 worth every penny. St. Louis can be an insanely great town, but you have to know where to go.
2009/5/14 John Coffey <[email protected]> > > > Hey Rupert, thanks for reminding me I still have 2 plane plane tix to St > Louis for the event Bill Streeter was going to do last summer. Nothing like > pissing away $500. > > JC > > --- On Thu, 5/14/09, Rupert > <[email protected]<rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>> > wrote: > > From: Rupert <[email protected] <rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>> > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Blog World Expo and New Media Conference [ > Vloggercon 2009? ] > To: [email protected] <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 10:49 AM > > > I'm not sure it's a question of nobody wanting to run it. I think > it's more a question of people not wanting to travel halfway across > the country/world to attend a vlogging event. > > You know that I love this community, and so I'm not being negative > about it. Just being realistic about what I see as people's > priorities and interests. > > Bill Streeter tried valiantly to organise Vloggercamp last year, and > there was a lot of interest from people signing up on the wiki - but > in the end people just weren't motivated enough to pay the > registration fee, let alone buy plane tickets. > > Pixelodeon got quite a few people attending because it was all about > screening lots of videos in a posh venue. But even then most of the > people who attended were from the West, I think. And that was two > years ago, and things have changed in the vlogosphere and in the > economy. > > The original Vloggercons and Vloggies worked because of the excitement > of vlogging being so new. I wish I'd been able to attend. > > There's a small number of people here who do attend podcamps, new > media expo, etc. The people who make their living from social media > that you see on Twitter constantly tweeting about the latest social > media trends and business opportunities, and telling you how to blog > and make money from blogging. But this doesn't include the majority > of vloggers, I don't think. > > And I'm not sure that most of the vloggers I know would be that into > attending a big corporate Las Vegas expo as opposed to something much > more intimate. > > What does anybody else think? Maybe Jeffrey could pipe in with his > experience of organising VlogEurope? > > Rupert > http://twittervlog. tv > > On 14-May-09, at 5:47 AM, Steve Garfield wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > When I was in NYC this weekend we were talking about the history of > > vloggercon and if there was going to be another one. > > > > People want to have another one, but no one wants to run it. > > > > I was talking to hte folks at Blog World Expo and they are > > interested in adding in Vloggercon to their October event. They > > would handle all the registration. > > > > Blog World Expo also now combines New Media Expo. > > > > Are people interested in this? > > > > Oct 15-17 Las Vegas. > > > > http://www.blogworl dexpo.com/ > > > > Air and hotels are cheap. > > > > Let's talk here about it here and if there's interest I can talk to > > them about getting a room or two for a vloggercon conference track > > within thier conference. > > > > Thanks, > > --Steve > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
