Two blogging events tomorrow if you live in the Bay Area. I will be at both (and speaking at one). BTW, I am looking for more speaking opps as it's a good way to spread word about the non-profit project and evangelize my love of blogs (see About):
Event 1: Emerging Role of Blogs in PR
On Tuesday, June 14, 7:30-9:00 a.m., the PR Roundtable of the Business Marketing Association (BMA), Northern California Chapter, will feature a discussion on blogging and its emerging role in the PR business. BMA hosts CommPros Content Creator Mar Junge and Evelyn Rodriguez, author of the eclectic weblog, Crossroads Dispatches http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com. Rodriguez was a Global PR Blog Week 2004 participant, spoke at New Communications Forum in
January and is scheduled to speak at BlogHer in July. Rodriguez' blog posts now draw upwards of 440 links from 288 unique sources [1].
BMA Roundtables are free for members, $10 for nonmembers, payable at the door. Breakfast is additional. Hobee's is located at The Pruneyard, 1875 S. Bascom #190 (next to Cinema 7), Campbell, CA 95008. To make a reservation, contact Hayes Marketing President Larry Hayes (larry -at- hayesmktg -DOT- com) by 5 p.m. today, Monday, June 13.
(This event is fairly informal "roundtable" format with lots of Q&A.)
Event 2: Bloggers as Journalists Salon
Jean Chen, Chris Nolan, David Peskovitz ponder Web logs
Tuesday, June 14, 6-8 p.m. (panel starts promptly at 6:45)
In the wine cellar of the London Wine Bar, 415 Sansome St. (near Sacramento St.), San Francisco
Three noted journalist bloggers will discuss Web logs and the future of journalism at a Society of Professional Journalists salon at San Francisco's London Wine Bar on June 14. The advent of blogs as disseminators of news has led many to question if it is wise and appropriate to treat bloggers as journalists and accord them the rights and privileges accorded to journalists in more established media. If anyone with an Internet connection can be a journalist, critics ask, then what is to stop anyone from refusing to disclose sources or seeking access to accident scenes?
Panelists Jean Chen (of Pop & Politics), Chris Nolan (of Politics From Left to Right) and David Pescovitz (of BoingBoing) will engage in a spirited discussion of the journalistic issues raised by the emergence of blogs.
David Greene, co-chair of the SPJ FOI Committee and executive director of the First Amendment Project, will moderate.
The SPJ salon runs from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 14, in the wine cellar of the London Wine Bar, 415 Sansome St. (near Sacramento St.), San Francisco. Admission is free. Social and professional mixing (no-host bar) begins at 6 p.m., and the panel starts promptly at 6:45.
R.S.V.P. Diane Keaton at diane -at- forestweb -DOT- com
[1] According to Technorati. I'm trying to get folks away from asking about "number of hits", which isn't that relevant to blogs with RSS feeds.
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