Lotusphere 2008: Blogging community birds-of-a-feather

December 20 2007

OK, I promised not to repeat the 8 AM Thursday time slot from Lotusphere 2007 for this.  We're running the LS08 "Lotus Blogging Community" birds-of-a-feather on Wednesday night at 5:45 PM in the Swan (Osprey 1&2, basically same place as LS07's).  You'll be able to attend the BoF then run off to ____________, site of the big Wednesday night party. [I might be able to disclose this soon!]

This is the fourth Lotusphere that we'll hold a BoF for the blogging community.  For those who haven't attended before, please do!  Much of the impact of this BoF is about those of you who read blogs, not just about the bloggers ourselves.  We want to learn how to grow the community, how to encourage more voices, how to track blogs better, and what the utility of the various blogs is.  I expect we'll also be congratulating the winner of the LotusUserGroup.org blogger award.  Hope to see you there!

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Lotusphere2008  Add/View Comments [12]

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  1. 1  Declan Lynch http://www.qtzar.com | 12/20/2007 2:58:18 PM

    Doesn't this clash with SpeedGeeking ?

    yeah, I know it's hard not to clash with something that a lot of people will want to go to...

  1. 2  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/20/2007 3:04:28 PM

    hmmm, let me check. That is ultimately why I moved the BoF to Thursday AM last year...

  1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/20/2007 3:36:20 PM

    And I've checked. It turns out that Speedgeeking, despite what the website says, is on Tuesday night, not Wednedsay night. Working with the web team to get that updated (as well as to remove the call for abstracts!).

  1. 4  Gregg Eldred http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf | 12/20/2007 9:42:13 PM

    I am still amazed at the number of people in our community that don't know about blogs, or if they do, how little they use them (contribute, is what I am meaning). Are we not hitting the appropriate topics or conversation points?

    I think that this will be a great BoF.

  1. 5  Stuart McIntyre  | 12/21/2007 12:30:45 AM

    I seem to remember it was actually 7am last year Ed, or maybe it just felt that way!

    I have to say that the room was pretty full in 2007 (at that time of the morning). Are we all going to fit in this time around?

  1. 6  Paul Mooney http://www.pmooney.net | 12/21/2007 5:22:44 AM

    em.. myself and a few others (*cough* Deving / Rolling and others) will be very grateful for that after the state of us last year.

  1. 7  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 12/21/2007 7:58:26 AM

    From the LS 07 schedule:

    Thursday, January 25th 7:00AM - 8:00AM: BOF508 - The Lotus Software Blogging Community (Not Just Bloggers!)

    That was pretty rough for me, too. I had a late night at Jellyroll's, then I had to blog!

  1. 8  Sean Burgess http://www.phigsaidwhat.com/ | 12/21/2007 8:44:01 AM

    I must agree with Paul that a few of us were looking a little more than ragged at last year's BoF. I bet Devin doesn't take his eye off his fridge this year!

  1. 9  Keith Brooks http://lotustech.blogspot.com | 12/21/2007 1:18:47 PM

    I overslept last year badly overslept too, after 3 days/nights of late and early BOF's.

    So thanks for an afternoon/evening timeframe.

    Looking forward to it.

  1. 10  Vince Betro  | 1/9/2008 9:40:16 AM

    So Ed, where's the Wednesday night party gonna be this year?

    PS my first "contribution" to any blog site ever! Kinda cool!!!

  1. 11  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/9/2008 11:05:08 AM

    @10 Vince, welcome.

    The party venue hasn't been announced yet. It's not where people think it will be.

  1. 12  Vince Betro  | 1/9/2008 11:40:32 AM

    Where do people think it will be?

    Thanks Ed.