Monday, March 06, 2006

Blog Summit Agenda

The tentative agenda has been firmed up, and I think the cheddarshpere will agree it's shaped up to be a interesting afternoon.


Inaugural WisPolitics/WisOpinion Blog Summit
March 18, 2006
1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Country Spring Hotel

Attendance is free and open to all interested parties, but they must register in advance by contacting link@wispolitics.com

**12:55 p.m. Short introduction by Jeff Mayers, president of WisPolitics.com

**1 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. State of Blogging keynote by Ann Althouse

**1:25 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. The Legalities of Blogging by Jennifer L. Peterson, attorney, LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn. Short speech and question-and-answer period.

**1:45 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. ``Why blog? Defining the phenomenon from a citizen bloggers' perspective'' Owen Robinson of Boots & Sabers and Jay Bullock of folkbum's rambles and rants lead a discussion with other citizen bloggers.

**2:15 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Moderated panel discussion: How will history view early blogging? An academic view. Jessica McBride, journalism instructor, radio talk show host and blogger, UW-Milwaukee; John McAdams, blogger and Marquette professor of political science; and Ken Mayer, UW-Madison political scientist.

**2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Moderated panel discussion: Impact of blogging on election 2006. Participants: Ed Garvey of FightingBob.com, Charlie Sykes of WTMJ-AM, state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, and Brian Fraley, GOP strategist and blogger.

**3:15 p.m. Presentation of the WisPolitics staff choice for 2005 Wisconsin political blogger of the year. TO BE ANNOUNCED.

3 Comments:

At 10:07 AM, Simon Blue said...

This looks like a serious agenda with a lot of good content and discussion. Good job putting it together.

 
At 2:21 PM, Dean said...

I'm excited about it. I have to work that day but I'll have time to take in most of that before getting back to work at 3:30. Hopefully, you won't be surrounded by so many fans that I'll get to meet you, Brian.

 
At 6:38 PM, Anonymous said...

And Free Beer!

 

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