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13th-Jun-2006 09:12 pm
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About 100-150 people attended the first semi-annual Utah Bloggers Conference tonight. Thanks to utahbloggers.com for organizing this.

After about a half hour of gathering a panel discussion was held on blogging in Utah. The discussion was mostly oriented towards business. 4 of the 5 panelists were business bloggers and one was political.

Panelists included:
  • Cyndie Tetro
  • Phil Burns
  • Phil Windley
  • Tim Stay
  • Pete Ashdown

    Following the panel was a Q & A. Since I noticed the glaring disparity in gender on the panel, and in the room (about 4:1 men), and the fact that only men were asking questions, I asked the question of the panelists if the gender balance on the panel was representative of the percentage of women bloggers in Utah. This evoked a series of responses from panelists and audience memberes alike - women and men - with no clear cut answer being offered, but recognition that this is the way things are in Utah. I did learn, as a reult of the responses, of Blogher, a site that lists women bloggers and that there will be a Blogher Conference in San Diego July 28 and 29.

    Overall the conference was interesting and very informal and comfortable. The organizers are planning another one in 6 months, details to be announced at a later date.

    I met Rob Miller, of The Utah Amicus. It's so great to meet bloggers in person!

    Here are photos of the event:







  • Comments 
    14th-Jun-2006 03:33 am (UTC)
    Anonymous
    Dee, I was sitting at the next table from you and was going to come say hi but I was posting pictures when the thing wound to an end, and then I met Rob Miller, and next thing I knew you were gone. I'm sorry I missed saying hi.

    Charley Foster
    14th-Jun-2006 03:41 am (UTC)
    Oh, I'm so sorry! We've been working sooooo hard the past 2 weeks moving the school in which I teach and we are exhausted, so am getting ready to go to bed now - we really needed to get home. We have 2 more days of extremely strenuous work to do.

    I hope to meet you sometime! Thanks!
    14th-Jun-2006 06:35 am (UTC) - Thanks for the coverage
    Anonymous
    Deanna,

    Thanks for covering the conference. I wish I could've been there, but I'm in the St. George area...

    Steve of http://obiterdictabysteve.blogspot.com
    14th-Jun-2006 11:13 am (UTC) - Re: Thanks for the coverage
    I hope we can think of ways to include folks from all over the state - certainly with technology we should at least be able to provide cyber connections. I've seen it done!
    14th-Jun-2006 08:29 am (UTC) - Women Bloggers
    Anonymous
    Dee, It was nice to have you participate at the Utah Bloggers conference. I highlighted some of the great women bloggers within the Know More Media on my post here:

    http://www.knowmoremedia.com/2006/06/does_the_internet_tear_down_co.html
    14th-Jun-2006 11:18 am (UTC) - Re: Women Bloggers
    It was great to be there! Thanks for helping to organize it. I look forward to the next one! A suggestion: Could future conferences be a little less "techie" and a little more geared towards the "lay" blogger? A lot of us got muddled in the techie talk last night.

    Having said that, I enjoyed myself and learned some things and thought it went very well.

    Thanks for pointing me to your post!
    14th-Jun-2006 08:31 am (UTC) - Women Bloggers
    Anonymous
    Sorry! I meant to introduce myself in the last post as Tim Stay. Thanks for attending.
    14th-Jun-2006 09:10 am (UTC) - Great Question!
    Anonymous
    Phil Burns here, I thought you asked us a great question about women bloggers. I mentioned Janet's blog, and alluded to Provo Labs' three female employee/bloggers (they all get aggregated at planet.provolabs.com) another awesome female blogger is my good friend Tara Hunt, she blogs at http://www.horsepigcow.com and is a huge influencer in the Silicon Valley community and is an organizer for BlogHer. Thanks for attending and thanks for the thought provoking question!
    14th-Jun-2006 11:20 am (UTC) - Re: Great Question!
    Thank you Phil and thanks for your participation last night. I plan to add yours and all the other blogs I learned about last night in my link to Utah blogs (left sidebar of my blog - "Other Blogs & Forums").
    14th-Jun-2006 01:38 pm (UTC) - Re: Great Question!
    Anonymous
    Dee, wish I had met you. I'm also a teacher! Just wanted to let you know I'm linking to you in a post for Blogher about the conference.
    Kalyn
    15th-Jun-2006 01:39 am (UTC) - Re: Great Question!
    Thank you Katlyn! I have so much catching up to do to read all these new blogs I found out about last night!
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