Category — Australian Blogging Conference

I’ve got about 4-5 posts to do on the (un)conference from last Friday but will first mention that next year it will most likely be held in Melbourne around August/September. It was also noted that the 2nd Australian Blogging Conference will be held on a weekend to help those unable to make it on a weekday due to work commitments.

I can highly recommend attending as it was an excellent experience on many levels. So if you’re interested in blogs, citizen journalism, and social media then be sure you leave your diary open.

As mentioned previously, the Australian Blogging Conference is on this Friday in Brisbane at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus.

The event will be dealing with a whole range of varied topics with informal unconference discussions, is free to attend and there is already an impressive list of people who are confirmed to be participating.

It would be great to see as many bloggers there as possible. Though, those unable to make it will I’m sure be adequately covered with live blogging, review posts and podcasts.

I was very excited yesterday to read via Duncan Riley that Peter Black from the New Media Law and Policy blog Freedom to Differ has announced the Australian Blogging Conference will be going ahead in Brisbane on Friday 28 September at the Queensland University of Technology.

This conference is very encouraging. As mentioned previously here at The Local, Australia has been behind overseas blogging trends in many ways but this year it seems we are all focused on catching up.

Being Brisbane based, I’ll definitely be attending and hope to meet other bloggers there. A Technorati search shows 29 blog posts already linking to the conference blog so it looks like it will be popular. For people who can’t make it in person, there is already a Twitter channel set up to keep up you in the loop in real-time during the event.