Over the weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Northern Voice blogger conference with some friends of mine and had a wonderful experience sitting in on the various talks given on a wide range of topics from design theory to photography technique, and the value of stretching your artistic horizons, and how this all ties into the internet and blogging.
The Northern Voice conference is sponsored by a number of local internet companies and hosted by gracious volunteers such as: Darren Barefoot, Kris Krug, Brian Lamb, Cyprien Lomas, Boris Mann, Dale McGladdery, Lori Pike, James Sherrett, Travis Smith, Julie Szabo, Roland Tanglao, and Lauren Wood.
Both days were packed with entertaining and informative presentations. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend all of them, but the events have been fairly well documented, so I don’t feel too left out. Of course there will be another one next year, so don’t sleep on it!
Northern Voice is one of many tech industry events that go on in Vancouver that support our growing population of professional internet geeks, among whom I count myself a member. Some have accused Vancouver of being a city with no overarching identity, but if great events like this keep popping up then the mantle of ‘west coast tech mecca’ would be ours to lose.
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I’m not so sure this is a tech industry event. Sure, it had some stuff for developers, but it had a great deal for educators and a great deal for actual bloggers. I think the analogy of early car enthusiast is valid: in the beginning, there were ONLY techie people involved. As it got easier, you had people driving cars who had no idea how they worked under the hood, but who drove at amazing speeds, to amazing places. This conference isn’t restricted to those who can take apart a blog and build it from the ground up. It’s not an INDUSTRY thing at all; it’s a conference built around the experience of blogging, as experience.
That’s a good point, I think what I meant is that the local tech industry people were behind it, and are also behind many other events. But you’re correct, don’t assume you need to be a developer to show up to Northern Voice!