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Opening pieces of Northern Voice 2006. I would have thought the auditorium would be a wee bit more packed. First up was Starting with Fire: Why Stories Are Essential and How to Blog Effective Tales by Julie Leung. There was something very refreshing in the presentation style (pure images, a pointed presentation lacking word bullet points. The imagery was moving, but it seemed a bit to go more on about the virtues and values of storeis and less about how stories are donw via blogs. There were a handul of blog examples tossed up at the end (hope I got the URLs correct): http://www.blogs.salon.com/0003522 http://www.theworldisnotflat.com http://mysonnicholas.blogspot.com http://www.2020hindsight.org/category/1945 http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com http://ferrytale.blogspot.com http://postsecret.blogspot.com http://unkemptwomen.blogspot.com I would have liked ro see more on this and the hows, methods, etc. She did offer up a delicious tag stream of references: http://del.icio.us/julie_leung/storytelling The next headliner was Sifry on the Blogosphere, Dave Sifry interviewed by Tim Bray. [...]

Day One of the Northern Voice conference, and Nancy White is running a great session on the important assets of online interaction. I hastily set up my iRiver to get a recording, may be noisy due to proximity to projector fan. And I rushed the editing. http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/nancy_white_nv06.mp3 [52 minute MP3, 24 Mb] Some sloppy written notes as well are below, most likely she will post on her Online Interaction blog updates feb 20 2006: Nancy posted her slide images– not as some bloated PPT but as a flickr set. Rock on! Nick Noakes combine the slides and audio into a windows media video (weighing in at 112 Mb) available at http://www.archive.org/details/ConferencePresentation Beverly Trayner listened to the audio and posted a distilled series of summary notes and comments. First, share the chocolate! Struggled with facilitating online community in mid 1990s. Why did what worked in f2f world fail in online? Why [...]

I’, lagging a bit in writing up today’s MooseCamp experience, the day session before the Northern Voice 2006 Conference. All in all, it was a full and tiring day. On one hand, it was a bit like a standard conference format; the sessions seemed to fly on by and lack significant time to reflect and absorb. It started with the EduBlogger Hootenany, with fellow blogmiesters Brian, D’Arcy, and Scott. This was in some sense a secondary follow-up of the Social Software Salon we did yesterday at UBC. Instead of carefully planning out a scripted presentation, we set up in the middle of the room, joked around and almost spontaneously, a conversation started from the audience. I am thinking more about this as conference sessions as conversations rather than transmissions. It was extremely rich, and ended all too abruptly. D’Arcy has already posted a nice comprehensive summary. There is more too [...]