The Top Five Constructive Points About the Blog Business Summit
We love constructive comments. Yeah, it makes us all feel warm and fuzzy when people come up to the Reg desk and tell us how much they love the conference. But we grow and learn even more from people who are willing to tell us what they feel could be better about the gathering
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Here’s what we’ve been hearing so far, both from the blogosphere and in the 3D world:
- There are really two conferences here: the gathering of the bloggerati clan and the business folks.
- We need more speakers who are from less tech-savvy companies and have some experience with the institutional resistance that is currently a major obstacle to getting the vast majority of businesses into the blogosphere.
- Businesses need to stop being so obsessed with the “A-list.” Jeremy Pepper thinks we need to pay more attention to other bloggers in specific niches instead of always looking to the Scobles and Jason Calacanises of the world.
- Some of the panels never really got around to their main topic, particularly in the monetizing your blog session. There are some really good tips from Jason Weisberger’s post (link below).
- Jason Calacanis’ announcement that most bloggers suck, especially those who are not highly ranked using traditional metrics was just plain wrong.
Also, we’d like to remind all the attendees to please silence their cell phones and computers during sessions.
Here is a list of folks who are writing thoughtful, constructive things about the conference, both positive and negative:
- Jason Weisberger
- John Koetsier
- James Omdahl
- Pat McCarthy
- ValleyWag Link in, you guys!
- Dave Taylor
- Zoe Goldring
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Just to add myself to the list, I’m also writing notes and musings about (or inspired by) the conference on my own blog, as well as here.
I herby volunteer for the less than tech savvy presenters. Tris and Scott second that opinion, and want me to present on the sidewalk outside.
I thought I was being constructive in my blogging about BBS, but I guess not….
I’ll let you decide.
Mitch: Jeez! Don’t have a cow man
I never said the list was comprehensive. I’ve added you to make it more so.
Oh, now it’s much more comprehensive! ;^>
Wonderful to hear that frank, open dialogue like this!
I’m not sure whether I agree or not with Calacanis point, but it wasn’t that most bloggers suck. You’re taking that bit of conversation (which his speech really was) out of context.
His point was that there is no A-list that prohibits new people from getting great traffic. He was simplifying the larger point of “people who work hard, create great content, and participate in the blogosphere get traffic concept” into something more simplistic. We don’t need to rail on him for something that was fun and light-hearted in person and not so well translated to a quick textual recap.
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