Blogworld & New Media Expo Announced
Aug 20th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Events 
Organizers have announced the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, a new blogging tradeshow, to be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center Thursday – Friday, Nov. 8 – 9, 2007.
The Expo will feature more than 60 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes. The Expo promises sessions on blogging basics, podcasting, video blogging, monetization strategies, increasing readership and blog site “stickiness,” use of RSS (really simple syndication), search engine optimizatio and blogging in the political arena.
“We‚Äôre witnessing a communication revolution. New media is rapidly changing the way people get their news and the way companies communicate with their customers,‚Äù Rick Calvert, Founder and CEO, BlogWorld Expo, said. ‚ÄúThis event is designed to give professional and aspiring bloggers the tools and education they need to take their brands to the next level and to bring the traditional communication world up to speed with the blogosphere.‚Äù
The conference will host several major blogging communities, including business, technology, politics, sports, lifestyle and pop-culture, milbloggers, mommy bloggers and godbloggers.
Exhibitors will include blog publishing software, advertising networks, affiliate program providers, RSS syndication services, news readers, aggregators, computer hardware and software companies, Wi-Fi services, broadband ISPs, web hosting companies, podcasting services, pro audio and video recording equipment and blog consultants.
Details ontopics, session descriptions and registration are all available at the Blogworld site.
hmm– kind of short notice there isn’t it?
I’ll stick with the Podcast and New Media Expo in September this year.
Thank you for the post 8).
FT we announced the event last November and I don’t see PME and our event as being an either or choice. I will be at PME just like I was last year and hopefully Tim and other folks there will see fit to attend BlogWorld.
Blog on!
Rick Calvert
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo
rick@blogworldexpo.com
Sounds great! Finally an event that’s thorough. Looking forward to this.
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