I’ll be at Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas in September. Gotta say that I wouldn’t be going if it didn’t coincide with another obligation in town. But since I’ll be there, I’m interested in seeing if a sharper distinction can be made between blogging and flogging. You can see the split by looking Blogworld’s own promotional jive. On the one hand there’s this…
…if you want to influence decision makers, sell a product or service, if you want to promote yourself as an industry expert, or build your brand using new media… |
And on the other hand there’s the Citizen Journalism Workshop, with a program developed by David Perlmutter, Ph.D. In addition to being the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at Kansas University’s School of Journalism with a distinguished adacemic pedigree — and a blogger — David is busy doing research on a grant from Knight Foundation to “study the relationship between reading blogs and newspapers”.
Generally speaking, I’ll be a lot more interested in the latter than the former.
Looking forward to seeing some of ya’ll there.
[Later…] I just learned that I might be on a panel. You can guess what I’ll be saying. Though I’ll be listening too.
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