Great Ideas conference launches show blog
The Great Ideas conferences, taking a page from this year’s ASAE show blog, has launched a blog of its own for this year’s events in Orlando, December 4-6 and San Diego, February 26-28. (The conferences are another ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership venture, so the idea that they’d follow the success of their earlier online venture isn’t too surprising.)
Run by some of my favorite Web reads (Kevin Holland, Amy Smith, David Gammel, Kathi Edwards, and Micki Rops), it’s already off to a great start, I think. There are already a couple of posts I’d like to comment on, and it’s just beginning.
These folks know how to do it right, and it’ll be fun to follow this one, especially given the great things I’ve heard about The Center’s conferences. I’m still waiting for IAEM’s Expo! Expo! blog to gain some traction. So far, there hasn’t been much to talk about, IMHO. But I remain ever hopeful…
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November 12th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Sue, where’s the love for the Godfather of the Association Blogoclump? :>)
November 14th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Sue–Happy to report that the Expo! Expo! blog has achieved some excellent traction, garnering an average of 130+ readers per day, with a total of 1200+ unique readers, above and beyond crawlers.
Given that it’s a blog about a single event, and not a vertical, I think that’s pretty good!
November 15th, 2005 at 11:04 am
It may be getting traction traffic-wise, Ted, but I’m still waiting for some content that’s a little more than brochure-speak. I know it’s hard to have much else to talk about before the show (ASAE ran into the same problem pre-show), but personally, I’d like to see a little more meat on the editorial bones.
November 15th, 2005 at 11:43 am
But how do you define “meat”–if these readers are coming back, it would follow that they’re getting what they want (and therefore, what is “meat” to them).
A weblog is just a format; I think that it can be used for a lot of useful purposes, including giving people practical information.
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