Blogworld & New Media Expo

I've actually known the outline of this for some time, but was sworn to secrecy. My good friend Rick over at The Real Ugly American has been working like mad to pull a brand new, world-class event for bloggers together. A trade show, a place to meet and greet, a forum for sharing ideas or a convention. Any or all apply and more. This is going to be a very big event and is meant to become an annual event. Here is the new website for the expo, it will be growing and changing as the project evolves. Rick tells me that they will be the host for the 2007 Weblog Awards, too. I think this is an idea who's time has come. Here's Rick:

We held our idea very closely but we had to approach several important vendors before we made our announcement. We also needed to find a couple investors. It didn’t take long before we recognized a pattern. Every person we told about this idea had the same response “I Want In!”. Now when everyone you know in your professional life has this kind of reaction to your idea, especially when many of them have heard a million ideas and worked thousands of shows you know you are on to something.

We named the show BlogWorld right out of the gate. It’s just something us tradeshow people do. There is a world for just about every industry you can think of.

When I started telling a few of my closest blogger friends about the idea they were all excited as well. However several people told me you have to include all new media. The techy bloggers and business bloggers said you have to include social media. Sounds good to me. It’s all related and blogging is really just the tip of the iceberg. Vlogging, podcasting, internet radio, social networks, and who knows what in the future is going to continue to change the way people get their news and make buying decisions.

So the name has evolvled to what you see today. BlogWorld & New Media Expo.

In the upcoming days I will be posting more about how this show came about and dropping a lot of names of people we have gotten involved. But I will sign off for now and look forward to hearing what my fellow bloggers have to say and to seeing all 57 million of you in Las Vegas next year. Particularly the 30 million sploggers out there. I never met a robot before and I’m curious to see what you guys look like.

Here's part of the email Rick sent me about this:

 Although this is a non partisan even non political event we fully expect to have
political candidates from both parties attending and speaking at the event as part of our
?blogs in politics? track as well as hundreds of traditional media outlets covering the
show, and bloggers of different levels of celebrity from every major topic, business,
technology, politics, sports, lifestyle & culture, celebrity gossip, Godbloggers,
Milbloggers, etc.

We are projecting 4,000 attendees our first year and 20,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space
along with a comprehensive 2 day conference covering all of the hot topics bloggers,
vloggers, podcasters, internet radio broadcasters and other new media content creators
want to discuss.

We will be hosting the 2007 Weblog awards and of course will have a major party. The big
idea is for this to be the event for the blogging industry with every product or service
any blogger or other new media entrepreneur could ever want.

Las Vegas, baby! Next year, November 8-9, 2007. Mark your calendars! Congratulations on bringing a great idea out, Rick.

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  By Quilly Mammoth, Wednesday, 15 November , 2006 @ 9:36 pm

  I can’t wait the Crabitat’s display booth.

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