This sounds like a great idea, Steve. Economies of scale. The ability to be self-contained, but within a wider festival. People have been reluctant to fork out $$$ to travel to a videoblogging conference alone - perhaps this would provide enough incentive.
Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 17-Dec-08, at 5:12 AM, Steve Garfield wrote: Hi, Are people interested in having a Vloggercon in 2009? I've got an idea. A Mashup of Conferences? June 24-27 at UMass Amherst Bill Densmore out at UMass has reserved the campus for June 24-27 for a conference. 'A Mashup of Conferences' We were talking about calling it something like 'A Mashup of Conferences' and inviting lots of people to co-host their conferences there that weekend. In 2006 he ran Media Giraffe conference on journalism, MGP2006. TOPICS and GROUPS I'd already thought of the possibility of having a Podcamp Amherst out there. He's going to corral the media and education people. What do you think about getting a bunch of Social Media people to join in? I'd help in getting multi media/video production people... Kind of like a pirate ship conference. In addition to social media, video, podcasting I was also thinking about Etsy crafts people, moped riders, and photographers, like that... a wide range... Also, it'd be fun to schedule hikes and social events around it too. LOGISTICS COSTS Ballpark cost estimates are: Meeting rooms: $6K A/V: $2K UMASS has tons of free WiFi LODGING Dorms would be available too for a very reasonable rate as well as hte Campus Center Hotel. Campus Center Hotel FOOD Food would be available at campus center for people to buy. TRAVEL Traveling to UMass BTW, AMTRAK runs to Amherst DC - NY - HARTFORD - AMHERST - MONTREAL LOOKING FOR IDEAS I'm looking for what your ideas on this might be... Interested in organizing, sponsoring, streaming? Leave a comment. Link to blog post: link http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008/12/mashup-of-conferences- june-24-27-at.html --Steve http://stevegarfield.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
