Webnames.ca Staff
The 6th annual Northern voice personal blogging and social media conference took place this past Friday and Saturday at the University of British Columbia. I attended once again; although I was unable to go on Friday, Saturday’s experience was no less awesome.
The conference got a LOT bigger this year, and as such the organizers moved into the high-tech Life Sciences building on the UBC campus. This building was great for the talks, and Q&A style portions of the conference as the lecture theaters are fully equipped. They had crazy projectors, and one of the rooms even had a built in PA system with microphones set up at each seat; very nice!
This year’s keynote speaker Chris Messina put on a charismatic and impassioned talk about the open web, where the Internet heading and what the Internet can become. His style incorporated interesting personal anecdotes and observations from the industry at large.
Then, there were the sessions, and really only two of the Saturday sessions stuck in my mind. The first real interesting one was “A Four Letter Word For Sex”, which I won’t describe much more then that, as the topics were a little on the taboo side. Yet, the subject sparked a very interesting Q&A session, with some smart and provocative questions for the panelists. Funny enough, one of the panelists couldn’t make it, as they came down with Mono.
Also new to this year’s conference – the Northern Voice organizers filmed everything to make it available online. In fact they streamed most of it live as it was happening. So if you missed the conference, but wanted to hear the speakers, fret not because it all will be available online in a little while. In the meantime, you will have to make do perusing Flickr sets and photos submitted to the Northern Voice Flickr group.