Blogging Conferences in Las Vegas
GodBlogCon is a Christian conference in the United States aiming to bring together GodBloggers, creating community and helping bloggers become better contributors in the new media. This year the conference is being held in Las Vegas, November 8 and 9, connected with BlogWorld and New Media Expo. The conferences are being supplemented by an executive and entrepreneur conference on November 7, 8 and 9.
Speakers at Godblogcon
Al Mohler – Pioneering the New Media for Christ
John Mark Reynolds (Scriptorium Daily) – Focus and Motivation
Mark D. Roberts – Taking Your Ministry to the New Media
Rhett Smith – New Media Ministry to the Myspace – Facebook Generation
Joe Carter (Family Research Council) – Identifying Impact in Culture for Christians in New Media
Bonnie Lindbolm (Intellectuelle) – Communicating Biblical Womanhood
Paul Spears (Scriptorium Daily) – Trafficking in Substance
Dustin Steeve (Scriptorium Daily) – Basics of Blogging
La Shawn Barber – Writing Well in the New Media
Kevin Wang (Zeit Studios) – Design Desiderata for the Godblogger
Jeff VanderGiessen (Mars Hill Church) – Developing a Pod and Vidcast Ministry
I’ve been informed by Des Walsh, a fellow Aussie blogger, that he’s speaking at the entrepreneur’s conference. Anybody else planning to be at any of the conferences in Las Vegas? Or been to the earlier Godblogcon events? What did you think?
Postkiwi Duncan Macleod posts on life, faith and culture in Australia, drawing from his involvement in the creative industry, the Uniting Church, the blogosphere, generational research, the emerging church and life on the Gold Coast.
Duncan is the editor of The Inspiration Room, a site showcasing advertising, design and other work produced by the global creative community.
2 Responses to “Blogging Conferences in Las Vegas”
By Des Walsh on Oct 3, 2007 | Reply
Rick Calvert, who is organising BlogWorld Expo, told me the GodblogCon is a very well run operation, supported, I heard him say, by a university in California. Blogging on religious themes and as a form of evangelism is much bigger, in my observation, in the US than in Australia – which of course is true of blogging generally (I’m talking more in terms of impact and pervasiveness – I don’t know how it works out on a per capita basis). And with Las Vegas swarming with bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers etc, and the expo on and access to that as part of the deal for GodblogCon attendees, it should be a great venue for anyone wanting to get a fast ramp-up to being a blogging contender.
By Rhett Smith on Oct 3, 2007 | Reply
This should be an interesting year. I spoke at the GodBlogCon it’s first year which was 2005. Much smaller, and hosted by Biola University at Biola. This is the first year it has teamed up with or brought under the umbrella of Blog World and New Media Expo. So I’m not quite sure what to expect, but I know that it will be a great time of interacting with other bloggers, etc.
Rhett