Northern Voice 2008

Thanks to all the sponsors, organizers, volunteers, and participants who made it to Northern Voice this year. A blast as always, and something that will keep our minds whirling with new ideas and new faces.

We've got a post mortem wiki page up that we started gathering ideas on what worked and what didn't. Thanks to Tod Maffin for the live wiki help (and rockin' some tunes throughout the conference). Please do leave us feedback -- comments, blog posts tagged as Northern Voice, and/or direct edits to the wiki page are all appreciated.

Safe travels!

P.S. Ideally we'll do an evening session on Net Neutrality sometime next week. We'll post about it here and on Upcoming.

Many of us enjoyed reading the aggregated feeds from the participants of Northern Voice 2007. So with Northern Voice 2008 coming up soon I asked some people in a local chat if there was going to be a similar group feed of the 2008 participants so we can easily check out the posts of the bloggers at the conference before, during and after the conference.

Jordan Behan Director of Community Relations of Strutta has generously offered to do this on Jaiku.

There will be one blog per attendee (if you want to participate), so if you're an attendee of Northern Voice or Moosecamp 2008 and want more people to read your blog, please send an email to Jordan with the name and feed of your blog and he'll add you to the Northern Voice Feed.

Just blogs, no twitters, jaikus, or flickr feeds or we'll all drown from infoglut.

If you have more than one blog you get to pick which one.

Here's the Northern Voice 2008 Channel website and here's the RSS feed. Enjoy.

Not, uh, like to corporate interests. The conference is sold out, again, for the fourth year in a row. Thanks to everybody who registered.

For the rest of you Johnny-come-latelies, we warned you. We've started a waiting list on the Northern Voice wiki, to which you can add your name and email address.

Update: There are a few slots left for MooseCamp only (i.e. Friday, but not Saturday); register for them while they're still available!

Just wanted to remind everyone that it's 18 days until Northern Voice, and tickets are selling quickly. Really quickly.

I don't want to say anything scary like "We're selling out!"

I mean, it's probably going to happen, and you're going to be all bummed out if you can't get in because you didn't buy tickets in time. All your friends and co-workers have their tickets. And it's really easy to buy tickets right now.

But I don't like to scare people, so, you know, go ahead and make up your own mind. You can wait and see what happens.

(But I wouldn't wait.)

For the third year in a row Northern Voice sponsor Mt Lehman Credit Union has hired awesome Vancouver street artist Basco5 to do posters for the event. Basco5 just posted this draft of the Northern Voice 2008 poster over at Flickr.

What do you think of this years design? Basco5 is taking feedback and we're not quite done with the final artwork yet so if you have some suggestions now would be a good time. I think we're gonna add some pocast-listening critters to the mix somewhere and add 2008 to the Northern Voice type on the top.

Last year the Northern Voice organizing committee also has a lil bit of extra money in our budget and got Basco5 to design and print some awesome streetart stylee stickers for the event. This year our sponsorships are undersold and we don't have the funds but I thought there might be someone out there who would be interested in seeing this happen again this year and coming to the table with some money. If you're interested pls drop me a line... we still have time to pull it together.

 

Hope you're getting your submissions ready since the deadline is on Monday December 10th! We'll be meeting later next week to pick the people who are offered slots on the Saturday, so we won't be able to accept late submissions. We may combine people on a panel, i.e. don't worry if you don't have 45 minutes worth to talk about, and if you want to be part of a panel, put that in your submission. Make sure you put enough detail in your submission; you need to show us you've thought about the subject you want to talk about and can come up with something interesting for people to listen to. Corporate sales pitches are right out; the theme of this conference is personal and educational blogging and social media.

If you want some ideas, check out the ideas page. Or the call for submissions page.

Just a quick post to send out good wishes and support to Northern Voice Alumni D'arcy Norman who filled out his official "Travel Approval Request Form" today. *nudge nudge* We hope you get approved bud and can come back again this year! :)

Here's what he's got to say about coming to Northern Voice...

"Northern Voice has been like a nonstop, open social learning party for me, where I’ve been lucky enough to get the chance to hang out with several of my personal heroes, and jam with a considerable chunk of my blogroll. It’s pushed me to work well outside of my normal comfort zone, trying new stuff and experimenting with things. If that’s not the goal of a conference, I don’t know what is. I am so absolutely looking forward to hanging out with the folks again this year, and seeing what we come up with for a session at the conference."