Face-to-Face
Nothing beats face-to-face! It was great presenting with these 4 weblogging guys whom I never would have met, let alone presented with, were it not for the power of weblogging. I think we had a dynamic group of attendees. Many already had weblogs and everyone brought a lot to the table. Lots of good discussion, ideas, and suggestions were offered. Will gave an overview of his weblog work, I followed with my weblog projects, Tom honed right in on the importance of reading and writing to the whole process and explained RSS and other technical aspects, and Steve got everyone up and going on their very own weblog. Of course, none of this would have happened without the guiding hand of Tim Lauer. He amazes me. He has really put together quite a setup with weblogs at his school. I love the fact that the first 15 minutes of their faculty meetings are devoted to teachers posting about their classrooms. I think the participants learned a lot. I did, too! Face-to-face is terrific!
Thanks to Thor (of the fine company Clarity) who provided the weblogs. The process they have set up was easy. Weblogs were up in no time!
It would have been nice to have more time to talk with the group. I did connect with two for a few minutes between talks. One was Rena Shifflet and the other was Michael Lackner. I had already seen some of their work. It’s wonderful! That will be on another post I’ll make a little later- gotta run to a session.
Here’s a pix of the group….. weblog fever coming up!
June 22nd, 2004 at 10:47 am
Always great to meet fellow Bloggers face-to-face. It’s usually NOT what you’d expect it to be which is why it is so much fun.