First of all you have to believe that blogging, podcasting, internet radio and TV all equate to newspapers, magazines, radio and television all being reinvented at the same time.

That’s not all new media is, but that is a very large part of it. People are for the first time in history able to start their own media outlet / brand as either a hobby, or a business for free or very close to free using services like blogger, blogtalk radio, WordPress, YouTube and hundreds of others.

I think something you and many other “techcentric” folks are overlooking that everyone of the events you mentioned save BlogWorld are all built to appeal to the same group, or even niche’s within the same group of people.

The mostly techy / geek set. Using the most conservative numbers there are 30 million fairly serious bloggers out there. Very few of them have ever heard of these events and will never find them when they do a google search because that is not what they are looking for.

Most of them are not techies. They use the technology but have a very limited knowledge of how a blog works, let alone internet TV. They want to learn how to improve their content, build their audience, and quite a few of them have built audiences completely by accident and are thinking about how to monetize it. They have never heard of events like Adtech or Affiliate Summit. (Great events btw).

While BlogWorld certainly attracts some of the usual suspects from the tech crowd, our strength and our goal is to serve the casual and novice blogger, podcaster, etc.

I have said this many times, I feel the future is a big tent event, with tens of thousands of attendees. That is what we are trying to build BlogWorld to be.

Its a little bit NAB crossed with ComicCon. A heavy dose of how to education and business oriented sessions with a lot of socializing with friends, peers, and Rock Stars of the medium’s.

I do agree there is a place for many of the other events out there and lots of them will thrive because they serve their communities, but at the end of the day, most of us belong to a larger community of the blogosphere. And we all have common goals and needs in common no matter what we blog about.

Its late, I’m tired and rambling.

Blog on!
Rick Calvert
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo

First of all you have to believe that blogging, podcasting, internet radio and TV all equate to newspapers, magazines, radio and television all being reinvented at the same time.

That’s not all new media is, but that is a very large part of it. People are for the first time in history able to start their own media outlet / brand as either a hobby, or a business for free or very close to free using services like blogger, blogtalk radio, WordPress, YouTube and hundreds of others.

I think something you and many other “techcentric” folks are overlooking that everyone of the events you mentioned save BlogWorld are all built to appeal to the same group, or even niche’s within the same group of people.

The mostly techy / geek set. Using the most conservative numbers there are 30 million fairly serious bloggers out there. Very few of them have ever heard of these events and will never find them when they do a google search because that is not what they are looking for.

Most of them are not techies. They use the technology but have a very limited knowledge of how a blog works, let alone internet TV. They want to learn how to improve their content, build their audience, and quite a few of them have built audiences completely by accident and are thinking about how to monetize it. They have never heard of events like Adtech or Affiliate Summit. (Great events btw).

While BlogWorld certainly attracts some of the usual suspects from the tech crowd, our strength and our goal is to serve the casual and novice blogger, podcaster, etc.

I have said this many times, I feel the future is a big tent event, with tens of thousands of attendees. That is what we are trying to build BlogWorld to be.

Its a little bit NAB crossed with ComicCon. A heavy dose of how to education and business oriented sessions with a lot of socializing with friends, peers, and Rock Stars of the medium’s.

I do agree there is a place for many of the other events out there and lots of them will thrive because they serve their communities, but at the end of the day, most of us belong to a larger community of the blogosphere. And we all have common goals and needs in common no matter what we blog about.

Its late, I’m tired and rambling.

Blog on!
Rick Calvert
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo

First of all you have to believe that blogging, podcasting, internet radio and TV all equate to newspapers, magazines, radio and television all being reinvented at the same time.

That’s not all new media is, but that is a very large part of it. People are for the first time in history able to start their own media outlet / brand as either a hobby, or a business for free or very close to free using services like blogger, blogtalk radio, WordPress, YouTube and hundreds of others.

I think something you and many other “techcentric” folks are overlooking that everyone of the events you mentioned save BlogWorld are all built to appeal to the same group, or even niche’s within the same group of people.

The mostly techy / geek set. Using the most conservative numbers there are 30 million fairly serious bloggers out there. Very few of them have ever heard of these events and will never find them when they do a google search because that is not what they are looking for.

Most of them are not techies. They use the technology but have a very limited knowledge of how a blog works, let alone internet TV. They want to learn how to improve their content, build their audience, and quite a few of them have built audiences completely by accident and are thinking about how to monetize it. They have never heard of events like Adtech or Affiliate Summit. (Great events btw).

While BlogWorld certainly attracts some of the usual suspects from the tech crowd, our strength and our goal is to serve the casual and novice blogger, podcaster, etc.

I have said this many times, I feel the future is a big tent event, with tens of thousands of attendees. That is what we are trying to build BlogWorld to be.

Its a little bit NAB crossed with ComicCon. A heavy dose of how to education and business oriented sessions with a lot of socializing with friends, peers, and Rock Stars of the medium’s.

I do agree there is a place for many of the other events out there and lots of them will thrive because they serve their communities, but at the end of the day, most of us belong to a larger community of the blogosphere. And we all have common goals and needs in common no matter what we blog about.

Its late, I’m tired and rambling.

Blog on!
Rick Calvert
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo