Northern Voice is a wrap

This year’s Northern Voice was my second. I thoroughly enjoyed both events and look forward to next year. I suspect that 2010 will prove to be a bit problematic due to another event happening at that time of year but, hey, that’s still a long way away.

Following last year’s conference I told all of my clients who were blogging that they needed to go next year. So as soon as NV08 was announced, I sent them all an email and encouraged them to register. I think that I sent the email to about a dozen or so of my clients. Only one came, Heidi, which is a shame, but a start. I got the chance to speak to her about the event and I think that she enjoyed it thoroughly and, like me, left the event with lots of ideas. 

Every year the organizers try to do something different and this year the Internet Bootcamp was on offer during the first day. I think that of all the talks that were given, this session was the most valuable for bloggers who are just dipping their toes in the blogosphere. As an educator Heidi is using the Web and social media to reach out to kids and teachers and help create a better educational systems. Heidi is already pretty tech savvy and has been blogging for a while, but these sessions were hopefully able to answers some of her questions.

I do hope that this session will return next year and encourage would-be bloggers to attend NV09.

See you next year. 

Written by Christine , February 24th, 2008 |
Posted in: Blogs

1 Comment so far

  1. Boris Mann February 24th, 2008 11:17 pm

    Hi Christine — thanks for letting your clients know. One of the things we might be able to facilitate is more of a business-focused session of Internet Bootcamp throughout the year, now that we are a society and can potentially get funding.

    P.S. I’m talking to the ngenworks folks about maybe doing some EE training. I’ll let you know.

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