I’ll update this post with more commentary later. But, for now, here it is!
Video courtesy of Fox59!
This is a question most bloggers wonder–especially when they are first getting started. While there are plenty of ideas on exactly how often you should blog, we wanted to know how often you actually are blogging.
As we close in on 100 bloggers having completed the 2008 Indiana Blogger Census, I thought it would be a good time to share a little bit of the data we’re collecting. As you can see from the pie chart, Hoosier bloggers are blogging much more than I had anticipated.
Read the rest of this story over at the Blog Indiana 2008 Conference blog.
If you’ve been waiting for a local event to help you learn more about blogging, greatly improve your blogging skills, or to effectively use blogs in your business–your wait is over! Blog Indiana 2008 is a 2-day conference on blogging and social media happening at the IUPUI Campus Center in Indianapolis. If you are new at blogging, a seasoned veteran, or want to learn the best ways to harness the power of blogging in your business, you will not want to miss this conference.
Split into three general categories (Basics, General, and Business), Blog Indiana has something for everyone. The best part is you can attend sessions in any category throughout the conference. With amazing local talent such as Chris Baggott, Jennifer Wagner, Bil Browning, Sarah Robbins, Scott Abel, Ruth Holladay, and many others. Topics covered will include legal issues, corporate blogging, brand consistency, building readership, making money with blogging, politics and blogging, and much more. Check out the sessions page for the complete list.
The conference is taking place at the IUPUI Conference Center in Indianapolis on August 16-17th. This is the first local conference like this and it looks like it will be a very useful and memorable event. Over 25 sessions featuring some great local talent, networking with hundreds of other local bloggers all for $49 makes this a conference you won’t want to miss.
If you register using the special discount code BLOGDISC, you’ll get 15% knocked off the price!
Check out the conference website for more info.
Hope to see you there in August!
A flurry of activity has surrounded our tiny idea to hold a big conference for Indiana bloggers. With the support of title sponsor IU School of Informatics and local blog software company Compendium Blogware, we are excited to announce registration is now open for Blog Indiana 2008!
Blog Indiana 2008 will take place August 16th - 17th and feature topical sessions lead by some very talented local bloggers. So far, we’ve confirmed Chris Baggott, Douglas Karr, Bil Browning, Jim Shella, Jerame Davis, and Tom Britt (and we are hoping to announce several more in the coming weeks!).
Sessions will include topics such as blogging for beginners, using blogs in your business, monetizing your blog, political blogging and more advanced topics. There will also be panel discussions and group discussion topics voted on by attendees during the months leading up to the conference (look for this form coming soon!).
One of our goals with this conference was to bring bloggers together from across the state for an unforgettable experience with a low price tag. At $49 total for both days, I think we’ve done that.
Check out the official site: conference.blogindiana.com
More on this later, but I’ve decided to move my blog from wpstar.com to NoahCoffey.com and refocus my blogging and some online efforts around my name. This is mostly a temporary style until I have time to fully develop the theme of the site.
This past weekend, I participated in Bloomington Startup Weekend. And, while I’m not yet allowed to talk specifics about the resulting company/product we created that weekend, I can share what an amazing experience it was. 100 technologists from around the area gathered together to bring their experience, expertise, and talent to produce a company and community in one weekend. Developers, Marketers, Business Developers, Project Managers, Designers, Lawyers, and more spent 52-some hours at City Hall in Bloomington, Indiana working towards the same goal.
It was a truly unique experience that I would highly recommend to anyone with even the slightest interest. It really does give you an idea of what it’s like inside a startup company, only much condensed. There are highs, lows, excitement, tension… it’s a lot of fun. I’ve been describing it as the only time I’ve enjoyed being annoyed. You kinda have to experience it to know what I mean. Hopefully, I should be able to give out the details of the product and company we’ve created in the coming weeks.
With that said, I highly encourage anyone in the Indianapolis region to head over to IndyStartup.com to proclaim your interest in having a Startup Weekend in Indianapolis. That site will also direct you to the Startup Weekend City Vote project where you can vote for Indianapolis to be one of the next locations (very important).
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