Blog seminar cancelled
October 6th, 2005
I blogged too soon . Johnnie , Freddie , Max , James and I are not going ahead with our Blog Business Seminar after all.
Why not? I don’t think we have really rationalised the decision, but when James, Johnnie, Freddie and I met recently, we no longer had any enthusiasm for the idea, and Max had already decided to resign from the project. From my perspective, the reasons to go ahead are the same, but the reasons why not are even more compelling: Our Social World , other commitments and existing blog-related business.
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Our Social World: I couldn’t attend Our Social World, which is a shame. I spoke to Geoff, one of the organisers before the event, and he seems like a wonderful chap. The agenda seemed pretty interesting - even if some material duplicated other conferences ( Reboot for example), I think it was a breakthrough event for the UK. Yet not many delegates attended. Perhaps it was the venue, perhaps the publicity ( ). In any event, OSW reminded me, at least, that conference production is a hit or miss business and that is one of the main reasons I stopped being a conference producer in the first place.
by other OSW speakers also left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth, at least at the time we made the decision to cancel (now of course, that feels like storm in a teacup).
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Other commitments: Max has resigned (temporarily, at least) from the 173 project to concentrate on his PhD. Freddie just got married. Johnnie has plans in Australia for the end of the year. I have committed to SpeakersBank for three dates in November. And if you know James, you know he is going to be a pretty busy chap very soon.
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Existing blog business: Johnnie already runs a successful blog training called Open Sauce Live with James Cherkoff of Collaborate Marketing . To me, there doesn’t seem much point in cannibalising Open Sauce, plus I am talking with James C about working with Collaborate.
So that’s it. Buoyed by our 15 minutes of Sunday Telegraph fame, “Let’s run a seminar” sounded great. It was a back of an envelope idea (they are usually the best kind), but with a some more thought, we have decided to shelve it. Perhaps we will think again in the New Year. Watch this space.
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