Had a great time this weekend guys! shall finally have time to edit some footage tomorrow as I have been overloaded with work since I got back. Looking forward to next year! whats it gonna be Paris? Annecy? Copenhagen? :)
Thank all you guys for organizing the event and see you soon! cheers Gabe B. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jeffrey Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just thought I'd communicate a bit with everyone to "complete" Vlog Europe > 2007, say some things that should be said, and tell you about what's next. > > First, the links: > > Video uploads from the event: http://vlogeurope.blip.tv There's more tagged > videos to see at: http://blip.tv/posts?search=vlogeurope07 , which we'll > move over to the main site as soon as we can. > > You can see the photos pouring in on the flickr site here: > http://flickr.com/photos/tags/vlogeurope07/ > > Next, the weekend: > > We had a great event. Halle_02, our venue, was fantastic, and we were > thrilled to broadcast the event with our sponsor BlogTV.com and see some > visitors that couldn't make it to Heidelberg like Richard Bluestein, David > Howell, and about 100-150 others throughout the day. We couldn't record the > sessions on BlogTV due to technical limits within Firefox (crashed our > browsers every time we hit record), but there is footage of the sessions > that will eventually make it to the Blip site. > > We covered a lot of ground in the sessions on Saturday, including Aske Dam's > presentation on evolving public media, the inevitable money conversation, > great software/gear discussions that included presentations from our sponsor > Sanyo on the Xacti, and a really great session in which we curated our > favorite videoblogs in real-time. We were a small group, but the > conversations were among the most powerful I have seen in a conference > setting and everyone played a starring role as the day unfolded. > > Day 2 was a "Vlog Treasure Hunt" in Heidelberg. I could say lots on this but > think Jan's video explains it best: http://blip.tv/file/364227/ The video > results are trickling in as we get home and have editing time. > > Some things to say: > > Firstly. I don't think Deirdré Straughan and Andreas Haugstrup Petersen were > thanked enough for their organization of VlogEurope '06. Having just done > this one, I understand what a major undertaking this is and have oftentimes > thought about how little gratitude you two received in return. Your efforts > were not unnoticed and were most definitely not taken for granted. > > Next, we really want to thank our sponsors BlogTV.com , the Sanyo Xacti and > Voicebank, TechSmith Screencasting software, and Blip. All of you have been > really great to us, really easy to work with and have taken a true stand for > the videoblogging community. Your support will pay dividends that have only > begun to unfold. > > I also want to thank Joel Carner (http://joelart.blip.tv) for opening up his > well-appointed home to us, giving up lots of time for the event, and for > getting it together. > > Also thanks to Jan McLaughlin (http://fauxpress.blogspot.com) for jumping in > and getting all the audiovisual issues handled. > > And Raymond Kristensen (http://dltq.org) is someone all of you should know. > I don't know anyone else more committed to videoblogging in Europe. He spent > the entire weekend creating a foundation for a bigger, better and more > impactful Vlog Europe, and I really look forward to helping him fulfill his > goal of having a strong independent videoblogging organization in Europe. > > And a final thank you to all the participants, coming from everywhere in > Europe, America and Japan. We discussed hard and played hard, and I hope all > of you will be with us next year. > > What next: > > We've already started the planning for Vlog Europe '08, taking to heart all > that did and didn't work with previous Vlog Europes. The discussion has only > just begun, but we know we'll schedule better dates next year and give more > opportunity for "organic" discussions about videoblogging. We're even > considering ditching the formal sessions and just letting the discussion > come out organically as we "invade" another European locale and do our > videoblogging thing. We realized that the most important aspect of this > event was seeing each other – catching with old friends and welcoming new > friends into the fold, feeding off of each other's creativity and commitment > to videoblogging, and perpetuating what we identified as a "cult of > sensibility" that has emerged within these past years. > > Stay tuned for more great news to come! > > Jeffrey > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
