Northern Voice 2010 kicks off today. Last year I made the trip up to UBC for both days of the conference but this year's date change has made it difficult to take Friday's off so I'm skipping today's adventures and will, instead, watch the
twitter stream from afar.
The conference has become a great place to meet bloggers and get some great tips and ideas for the year while also giving me the opportunity to see people that I generally don't see throughout the year (namely local bloggers and social media types). I usually over pack for the day carrying a backpack with more stuff than I really need but this year, I'm going to try the conference on a much lighter note while also putting my N900 to the test. The plan: to pack only the phone, extra batteries, a charger (just in case), my Kodak pocket cam and perhaps, if the weather holds up, my DSLR. Hopefully that'll mean a variety of coverage including more
video, perhaps a little
live streaming (which I've only attempted twice before) audio and
pictures. We'll see how the experiment goes.
If you're looking for full coverage, I advise you stay tuned to Twitter (hash tag #
nv10), flickr (images tagged
nv10 &
northernvoice) and for more in-depth updates like live blogs, I suggest checking out
Miss 604.
Asking for help is not my forte though when I have to, I don’t mind asking. The hurdle I can’t seem to get over is the asking for help over the web. It doesn’t feel quite right – like it’s not quite personal enough but frankly, I need your help.
After the Credits, the podcast that I cohost with the fabulous Dale and Colleen is getting some attention and has been nominated for 2 great awards.
Canadian Blog Awards
This is one I didn’t nominate us for but found out about it via
Hummingbird604. I was a bit surprised but passed it along to all my friends thinking we’d never make it past the nomination round. Go figure, they voted for us and we did make it to the finals. I urge you to take a quick moment and head over there to
vote for us! Yes, it’s an honour to be nominated but it would be even
better to win!
Vote for “Row Three” HERE!
Best of 604
The other set of awards is the Best of 604 which is organized by Vancouver blogger extraordinaire
Miss604. This one, I’m not ashamed to say, I nominated myself but then, I figured that with the rich (and it’s
very rich) community, we’d be among a list of a few dozen. Surprisingly, we’re in the running among a rather small group which is both exciting and terrifying. What does make me feel better: it’s a very elite group.
Vote for “After the Credits” HERE!
So please, my one request for the year, head on over there and share in the love! And feel free to pass along the link – the more the merrier! ;)
Since I had to dress up again today, I decided to go a little pink. It just feels like the right colour for summer.
You'll notice a pretty big change on the blog today namely that's it's naked.
Thanks to fellow local blogger Raul, it's come to my attention that today is CSS Naked Day and I've decided to join in the efforts with thousands of other bloggers, mostly as a thank you to the folks who put in so much darn work and effort so that our blogs can look fabulous - in some cases, at the touch of a button!
Now I just have to remember to dress myself up again tomorrow!
So I'm sitting here between session, madly trying to catch up on uploading audio and a little birdie comes by and shares some wicked information.
From a few of the sessions, I've noticed that there are some folks at the conference that aren't local to Vancouver but I didn't realize that some people came from so far away.
I'm sitting here trying to figure out who came the farthest but frankly, my geography skills suck so I'll let you figure that one out for yourself. Here's the list:
Abbotsford
Bellevue
Berkeley
Bowen Island
Burnaby
Caledon
Calgary
Chilliwack
Coquitlam
Duncan
Edmonton
Fairbanks
Fort St. John
Fredericksburg
Gibsons
Kalamazoo
Kamloops
Lions Bay
Los Angeles
Lynnwood
Millburn
Monroe
Mountain View
New Westminster
New York
North Vancouver
Olympia
Ottawa
Playa Del Rey
Port Coquitlam
Port Moody
Portland
Prince George
Reston
Richmond
Richmond Hill
Roberts Creek
Salt Spring Island
San Francisco
Sausalito
Scottsdale
Seattle
St Thomas
Surrey
Toronto
Vancouver
Victoria
White Rock
Here are the regions (12) people are from:
Alaska
Alberta
Arizona
British Columbia
California
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
Ontario
Oregon
Virginia
Washington
Had to sit behind the presenter on this one because the room was PACKED. Thankfully, I did manage to record the presentation...
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Audio to follow. No audio for this one. Forgot to press record. OOPS.
Alright, so this didn't go over as well as planned but I think we'll be good for the second session. I'll still post my notes...once I clean them up. On the other hand, we WILL have audio! Soon at least.
3:30 - As promised. The presentation audio!
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As a test of new technology that I'll be using on a "grander" scale on Sunday during the LIVE OSCAR BLOG (check out all the details) and partly because I want to give something back to the blogging community, I'll be putting myself to the test and blogging all of the sessions I attend at Northern Voice this weekend. Coverage will start with the first session "Bloging 101" at 10:45 tomorrow morning and I intend to cover everything I attend (at the moment it's everything) and the Friday schedule looks like this:
10:45 - 11:15 Blogging 101
11:15 - 11:45 Podcasting 101
11:45 - 12:15 Videoblogging 101
13:30 - 14:00 Wiki 101
14:00 - 14:30 Live blogging 101 (<== appropriate no?!)
14:30 - 15:00 Traffic, Stats, SEO 101
15:30 - 16:00 Tagging 101
16:00 - 16:30 What Next?
I'm also hopeful that I'll have a chance to record the various sessions on my handy H4 and share those with the masses. I'll be playing that by ear but at the moment, that's the plan.
As for Saturday, I've been trying to devise a schedule but there are a few things that I'm not 100% on yet and which will be fairly spur of the moment but once I have a general idea, the same principles will apply.
It's official. Today I registered for Northern Voice and requested Friday, Feb. 22nd off. I'm all set to go!
To add to the excitement, I also got some fancy, FANCY business cards in the mail from one of the other contributors - they're SO darned professional looking! - so I'm pretty much set to go!
Just got word that the movie website has been nominated for the Blogger's Choice awards.
If you love us too, be sure to give us a vote! :)
