BlogWorld and New Media Expo, the world’s largest social media conference is coming to Las Vegas October 15-17, 2009.

The over 280 speakers includes keynotes by: Guy Kawasaki, Kara Swisher, Chris Brogan, Laura Fitton, Jeremiah Owyang, Scott Monty, Brian Solis, Wendy Piersall, Ted Murphy, Chad Vader, Don Lemon, Leo Laporte, Joanna Drake Earl, Kevin Pollak, and Jay Rosen.

The 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, beginning with the exclusive “Social Media Business Summit” conference on October 15th and continuing with the BlogWorld & New Media Expo and Conference October 16th-17th. This is first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media including: Blogging, Podcasting, Social Media, Online Video, Music, TV, Radio, Gaming, Entertainment and Communities.

In addition to the only industry-wide new media industry exhibition, BlogWorld & New Media Expo features the largest new media conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business.

If you are currently blogging, podcasting, vlogging, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or researching ways to leverage new media for your large or small company, then you need to be at the only comprehensive new media convention–BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at: 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109

Connected Social Media Syndication BlogWorld and New Media Expo, Corporate blogging, BlogWorld, Brian Solis, Chad Vader, Chris Brogan, Don Lemon, Gaming, Guy Kawasaki, Jay Rosen, Jeremiah Owyang, Joanna Drake Earl, Kara Swisher, Kevin Pollak, Las Vegas Convention Center, Laura Fitton, Leo Laporte, music, new media, online video, podcasting, Radio, Scott Monty, social media, Social Media Business Summit, Ted Murphy, TV, Vlogging, Wendy Piersall

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

BlogHer was one of our favorite conferences of 2006. Why? Beause it was different. You had mommy bloggers talking with tech bloggers and political bloggers. There’s a myth that there aren’t many bloggers who are women and BlogHer is going to explode that myth — last year, nearly 1,000 bloggers attended BlogHer. Here, Maryam and me have a conversation with BlogHer co-founders Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort and Jory Des Jardins about blogging trends and their plans for the 2007 BlogHer event in Chicago.

Robert Scoble Classic ScobleShow, Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0 blogging, BlogHer, Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, Lisa Stone, Maryam

Keith McAllister, former executive vice president of CNN, discusses how the news media is being impacted by the blogging community. His thoughtful perspective offers suggestions for how his company MOCHILA, a professional media marketplace for feature content can help old media and new media work better together.

Jennifer Jones Connected Social Media, Marketing Voices, social media blogging, Keith McAllister, MOCHILA

BlogHer was one of our favorite conferences of 2006. Why? Beause it was different. You had mommy bloggers talking with tech bloggers and political bloggers. There’s a myth that there aren’t many bloggers who are women and BlogHer is going to explode that myth — last year, nearly 1,000 bloggers attended BlogHer. Here, Maryam and me have a conversation with BlogHer co-founders Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort and Jory Des Jardins about blogging trends and their plans for the 2007 BlogHer event in Chicago.

Robert Scoble Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, ScobleShow blogging, BlogHer, Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, Lisa Stone, Maryam

Pheedo’s founder and VP of marketing, Bill Flitter, came over to PodTech to talk with me about advertising in RSS feeds, among other things happening in the blogging industry.

Robert Scoble Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, ScobleShow Bill Flitter, blogging, Pheedo, RSS feeds

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up to, and what Ross is seeing from his office in downtown Palo Alto.

Click here for transcript.

Robert Scoble Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, ScobleShow, Technology blogging, Ross Mayfield, social media, Socialtext, Web 2.0, Wiki

Is your blog awash with comment spam? ShortCuts blogging expert Todd Watson shows how to get rid of the stuff. This week’s links: the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam and the official Google blog on preventing comment spam.

More info:

www.ibm.com/ShortCuts

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