Sue and I met at the Green Bean to discuss this year's iteration of ConvergeSouth.

I think the world has talked enough about a lot of the things people talk about at these things. The energy and freshness of Dave's original BloggerCon, and of our own little regional version, has become the stuff of daily life. It's all happening, which makes pontificating about it a little redundant.

But that doesn't mean a conference dedicated to creativity on the web for all people is DOA. In fact, the more it focuses on "all people," the more alive it is.

Which is to say, I'd love to see a lot of hands-on, how-to sessions. A good model would be Tom Lassiter's 2007 video-on-the-web teach-in, where experts and noobs worked together in harmony. If we could do that for a lot of different areas -- video, social nets, blogging, etc -- it would be worthwhile.

Plus some guest stars and music and film and all that other stuff that ConvergeSouth is becoming.

It would be great to get some broad support, in terms of money, ideas, and volunteers.

Comments

[Anton Zuiker]

I'm looking forward to it. Once again, the Triangle BlogTogether crew will attend in force. Let us know how we can help.

[Sue]

Hi Ed, it was a great low-fat breakfast (once again). Perhaps we can use your blog space to elicit some solid themes for ConvergeSouth this year. Each year we really do have a theme: last year it was "The Fifth Estate." It'd be great to have some community input on a theme for this year. Got some?