{"id":317,"date":"2008-03-13T14:08:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/03\/13\/personal-nv-musings\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T22:08:20","slug":"personal-nv-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/03\/personal-nv-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal <span class=\"caps\">NV<\/span> Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/northernvoice.ca\">North\u00adern\u00adVoice<\/a> organ\u00adiz\u00ading com\u00admit\u00adtee\u2019s post-con\u00adfer\u00adence lunch. The con\u00adfer\u00adence motto is per\u00adson\u00adal blog\u00adging and social media but lots of people who attend or speak are inter\u00adested in the pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal or cor\u00adpor\u00adate aspect as well. As a res\u00adult, one of the per\u00aden\u00adni\u00adal top\u00adics we talk about is who the con\u00adfer\u00adence is for, and what do par\u00adti\u00adcipants want to listen to. I touched on some of this in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/02\/ebbs-and-blogs\/\">Ebbs and Blogs<\/a> post\u00ading. Per\u00adson\u00adally I\u2019m more inter\u00adested in the per\u00adson\u00adal blog\u00adging aspects than the com\u00adpany <span class=\"caps\">PR<\/span> aspects (<abbr title=\"Your Mileage May Vary\"><span class=\"caps\">YMMV<\/span><\/abbr>, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Which raises some inter\u00adest\u00ading ques\u00adtions \u2014 why would per\u00adson\u00adal blog\u00adgers come to a con\u00adfer\u00adence? I can think of a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to learn more about tech\u00adniques, e.g., how to pod\u00adcast, or how to embed&nbsp;video<\/li>\n<li>to get ideas for content<\/li>\n<li>to learn how to write bet\u00adter, to express ideas better<\/li>\n<li>to meet up with people with some related interests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess there are a lot of people who blog who would nev\u00ader come to a blog\u00adging con\u00adfer\u00adence because what and how they blog is enough for them and they don\u2019t see any need to change any\u00adthing. But there are also people who don\u2019t do well in crowds, so one issue I see is how to encour\u00adage people who are less com\u00adfort\u00adable at con\u00adfer\u00adences (even small ones), how to make them more com\u00adfort\u00adable. I don\u2019t know what the answer is; I\u2019m an intro\u00advert but it sel\u00addom stops me going places, so although I sym\u00adpath\u00adize with those for whom it\u2019s a prob\u00adlem, I\u2019m not sure of what to do to help. If, indeed, any\u00adthing can be done at the con\u00adfer\u00adence organ\u00adiz\u00ading level to&nbsp;help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the North\u00adern\u00adVoice organ\u00adiz\u00ading com\u00admit\u00adtee\u2019s post-con\u00ad\u00adfer\u00ad\u00adence lunch. The con\u00adfer\u00adence motto is per\u00adson\u00adal blog\u00adging and social media but lots of people who attend or speak are inter\u00adested in the pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal or cor\u00adpor\u00adate aspect as well. As a res\u00adult, one of the per\u00aden\u00adni\u00adal top\u00adics we talk about is who the con\u00adfer\u00adence is for, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/03\/personal-nv-musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cPer\u00adson\u00adal <span class=\"caps\">NV<\/span> Musings\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-vancouver","tag-northernvoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}