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January 9, 2007

WashingtonPost.com Blogging Summit

I was invited to the inaugural WashingtonPost.com blogging summit, held at the Washington Post auditorium in DC. Tammy Marcoullier, a former colleague of Shannon's from AOL is now a consultant for the Post and has been following our blog. It was her idea to have me attend, and I'm glad to have had the experience.

Essentially the summit was for DC-area non-political bloggers to come together to discuss blog-specific issues. The three-hour summit was divided into three segments. First was a panel comprised of top Washington Post executives, with we bloggers asking questions and offering suggestions. Second was a libel attorney discussing libel and defamation issues particular to bloggers. This was a very interesting and enlightening session. I didn't stick around for the third hour, as Shannon was home with the boys and feeling pretty tired.

I'd guess about 100 people attended, and it was very cool to see the diversity of the topic represented. As we walked in they were scrolling through all the bloggers' home pages and putting them up on the screens. It felt great to see our blog up there!

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Posted by Stephen at January 9, 2007 10:31 PM