Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

A few of our members have attended some exciting conferences in recent weeks, like SXSW and NTEN. Let’s get some updates from them.

Upcoming meetings & events of interest:

• Thursday, March 27, & Friday, March 28: SpamCon at MIT
• Friday, March 28, & Saturday, March 30: Boston First: a high school robotics competition is at BU’s Agganis Arena.
• April 3 meeting: Meryl Libbey & Rich Cowan on publicizing their blog on Oppenheimer and the H-bomb (and associated book)
• April 10: Pecha Kucha, with social dinner beforehand & live blogging/tweeting during! Led by our own Brett Stilwell.
• April 11: BetaHouse Turns 1!
• April 17: Our own Jared Dunn on his new project, LocalProgress.org
• April 24: ROFLCON and the Laughing Squid are having a ROFLCON kickoff party at the Asgard on Mass Ave in Central Square. Let’s join them for some networking with online comic artists. RSVP required.
• May 1: The folks from Babbledog return with a major update
• Registration now open for the Berkman @10 conference & gala in May!
• See the Berkman Calendar for other upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.

We’re moving the meeting to 6 p to attend a talk by Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer, in Austin West Classroom in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School—a special Berkman@10 event. She will focus on the habits of adult women online: “Today, thanks to the Internet and to the new social media tools embraced by female consumers, American women online represent stunning economic and political power — and a rapidly morphing target.”

Some folks will go for dinner after the talk. Others are heading to the contradance.

The Boston Weblogger Meetup Group is attending and planning to go to Cambridge Common afterward.

Upcoming meetings & events of interest:

• March 27 meeting: Conference repotbacks from those of us who attended SXSW or the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference
• April 3 meeting: Meryl Libbey & Rich Cowan on publicizing their blog on Oppenheimer and the H-bomb (and associated book)
• April 10: Pecha Kucha, with social dinner beforehand & liveblogging/tweeting during! Led by our own Brett Stilwell.
• April 17: Our own Jared Dunn on his new project, LocalProgress.org
• April 24: The folks from Babbledog return with a major update
• Registration now open for the Berkman @10 conference & gala in May!
• See the Berkman Calendar for other upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.

This week, 3/13:

Jon Garfunkel will talk to us about the challenges of good, usable blog archives. He switched his archive format recently in an attempt to provide better access to the material. As well as sharing his experience with his weblog, he will talk about archives on other sites. More info at his post on faceted navigation of blog archives. For a demo, see http: //civilities.net/webzine/archives and
http://campaigntrails.org

Next week (3/20), we’re moving the meeting to 6 p to attend a talk by Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer.

Upcoming meetings & events of interest:

• Access Denied book release & reception, this Friday 3/14
• Next week, March 20, 6 pm: Special Berkman @10 event with Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer. We’ll be attending the event instead of having a competing blog group that night, and probably dining as a group afterwards.
• March 27 meeting: Conference repotbacks from those of us who attended SXSW or the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference
• April 3 meeting: Meryl Libbey & Rich Cowan on publicizing their blog on Oppenheimer and the H-bomb (and associated book)
• April 10: Pecha Kucha, with social dinner beforehand & liveblogging/tweeting during! Led by our own Brett Stilwell.
• April 17: Our own Jared Dunn on his new project, LocalProgress.org
• April 24: The folks from Babbledog return with a major update
• Registration now open for the Berkman @10 conference & gala in May!
• See the Berkman Calendar for other upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.

This week, Barry Rafkind and other folks from Somerville Voices will join us talk about what they’re doing. Somerville Voices is a new collaborative news & features blog for Somerville, and they’d really love input from blog group folks, particularly those of us who are or have been involved in other placeblog projects.

Upcoming events of interest:

• See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
• Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.