It’s time I finally recap my experience at Blogworld 2009 in Las Vegas.
In one word “Awesome”.
Since I’ve been working for myself consulting and building Charles & Hudson I spend a huge amount of time alone and behind the computer screen and not nearly enough time building face-to-face relationships and hearing from folks who have something to share about blogging and the business of blogging.
The conference started out with a keynote from Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati. I’ve been a Technorati user for years and often referred to it to see who linked to me and to measure the reach of my blog. In the past year or two I’ve become much less reliant on Technorati as Google started indexing blogs and I started pulling in real-time referral data from my RSS reader, Google Alerts and Sitemeter. Jalichandra is convinced that Technorati has changed with the market and will again be a leader in the blogosphere. Time will tell but if I no longer reference Technorati since my authority fell back to 1 and never updates.
The greatest bit of serendipity from the show started from the keynote when I happened to be seated behind Rebecca Orlov. Rebecca and I had emailed briefly through her Blog Out Loud organization in Los Angeles and at the keynote she was furiously tweeting the event. I couldn’t help but notice her laptop screen was opened to her Blog Out Loud Twitter account so I made an introduction. As nice as she was online she was even sweeter in person and we’ve since struck up a great friendship which was enough to make Blogworld a success for me. Fortunately there were many more people to meet and things to learn. [continue reading]
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