You're welcome! I only just escaped a financial scalping myself. I was scolding myself for not having got my act together to buy tickets earlier, then it turned out for the best. Same with another trip last year. Could have lost about $1500 altogether.
On 14-May-09, at 10:04 AM, John Coffey wrote: > > > Hey Rupert, thanks for reminding me I still have 2 plane plane tix > to St Louis for the event Bill Streeter was going to do last summer. > Nothing like pissing away $500. > > JC > > --- On Thu, 5/14/09, Rupert <rup...@fatgirlinohio.org> wrote: > > From: Rupert <rup...@fatgirlinohio.org> > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Blog World Expo and New Media > Conference [ Vloggercon 2009? ] > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 10:49 AM > > I'm not sure it's a question of nobody wanting to run it. I think > it's more a question of people not wanting to travel halfway across > the country/world to attend a vlogging event. > > You know that I love this community, and so I'm not being negative > about it. Just being realistic about what I see as people's > priorities and interests. > > Bill Streeter tried valiantly to organise Vloggercamp last year, and > there was a lot of interest from people signing up on the wiki - but > in the end people just weren't motivated enough to pay the > registration fee, let alone buy plane tickets. > > Pixelodeon got quite a few people attending because it was all about > screening lots of videos in a posh venue. But even then most of the > people who attended were from the West, I think. And that was two > years ago, and things have changed in the vlogosphere and in the > economy. > > The original Vloggercons and Vloggies worked because of the excitement > of vlogging being so new. I wish I'd been able to attend. > > There's a small number of people here who do attend podcamps, new > media expo, etc. The people who make their living from social media > that you see on Twitter constantly tweeting about the latest social > media trends and business opportunities, and telling you how to blog > and make money from blogging. But this doesn't include the majority > of vloggers, I don't think. > > And I'm not sure that most of the vloggers I know would be that into > attending a big corporate Las Vegas expo as opposed to something much > more intimate. > > What does anybody else think? Maybe Jeffrey could pipe in with his > experience of organising VlogEurope? > > Rupert > http://twittervlog. tv > > On 14-May-09, at 5:47 AM, Steve Garfield wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > When I was in NYC this weekend we were talking about the history of > > vloggercon and if there was going to be another one. > > > > People want to have another one, but no one wants to run it. > > > > I was talking to hte folks at Blog World Expo and they are > > interested in adding in Vloggercon to their October event. They > > would handle all the registration. > > > > Blog World Expo also now combines New Media Expo. > > > > Are people interested in this? > > > > Oct 15-17 Las Vegas. > > > > http://www.blogworl dexpo.com/ > > > > Air and hotels are cheap. > > > > Let's talk here about it here and if there's interest I can talk to > > them about getting a room or two for a vloggercon conference track > > within thier conference. > > > > Thanks, > > --Steve > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
