BloggerCon at the ASAE Conference 2007

Ben Martin from Virginia Association of Realtors organized a sub-meeting at the ASAE Conference 2007 in Chicago and called it Association Bloggercon 2007.  The idea behind this meeting was to share ideas on how to blog better and reach our intended audiences.

We had abouit 30+folks there and the conversation was very active.  Some of the people in attendance included:

1. Zach Wilson principal at Gulo Customized Internet Solutions - link to Gulo Solution's blog
2. Greg Fine, CAE of Association Forum of Chicagoland
3. Jeff De Cagna from Principled Innovation - link to Principled Innovation's blog
4. Jason Alba, CEO of JibberJobber - link to JibberJobber's blog
5. Sue Pelletier, editor of The Meetings Group - link to Face2Face blog
6. C. David Gammel of High Context Consulting - link to High Context's blog
7. Jason Della Rocca, Executive Director of International Game Developers Association - link to Reality Panic

Many others attended, but I didn't have the opportunity to get their information.  If anyone reading this blog-post attended and would like to be included in it, please submit a comment with your information... I will update the post with it.

The meeting was divided into two conversations:

First we talked about how to get leaders of associations to read, comment and get involved in the conversation that is currently taking place in the blogosphere about associations.  We had many suggestions, including the creation of a central bog that would have RSS feeds from all the blogs with association relevant information.

Our second topic dealt with blogs specific to an association - tips for increasing the level of conversation (comments, more readers, etc).  The blogs discussed here were not about generic nonprofits, these were more specific to a particular organization. 

Ben did a great job in keeping the conversation flowing in an organized manner.  I found the input provided by the attendees very useful... in fact, I've I've already implemented this one:

When you receive a really good comment (or comments) on a particular post, it's a good idea to take the comment and make a new blog-post from it (giving proper credit to the person making the comment) and respond to the comment on this new post.

Ben, thank you for inviting me to BloggerCon - I really enjoyed it and learned a bunch!

Comments

[Greg Fine]

Glad you could make it and hope you enjoyed your time in Chicago.

Cheers!