By Joe Klein

On Saturday, the first official day of the Blogworld Expo, Brett and I arrived at the Las Vegas Convention Center bright and early. First order of business was attending the morning State Of The Blogosphere and Opening Keynote addresses delivered by RICHARD JALICHANDRA, CHRIS ALDIN and ANIL DASH. Then it was time for the New Media Creative guys to spend a few hours of working the exhibit floor and connecting with the throngs of new media shakers and mavens who were attending and exhibiting at the conference. Here are a few photos…..

      
JOE, RICK CALVERT AND BRETT      ROGER SIMON AND JOE

      
 ROBERT SCOBLE AND JOE          JOE AND ROXANNE DARLING

    
JOE, NICOLE SIMON & EWAN SPENCE  EFREN TOSCANO AND JOE

     
  JOE AND JALALI HARTMAN        JOE AND THE CART-AWAY GUYS

While on the exhibit floor, we spent some "quality time" at the BLOGGER AND PODCASTER MAGAZINE booth with publisher/Larstan CEO LARRY GENKIN and  the company’s EVO of advertising and development, LENNY FUCHS, who have become good friends and business associates with over the past year. With Brett nowhere to be found at the time, the "three stooges" (Larry, Joe  and Lenny)  took advantage of a temporary break in all the action at the booth to pose for a "new media family portrait."

                      
                         LARRY GENKIN, JOE AND LENNY FUCHS

We had previously arranged for Brett to set up a demonstration of the newly released DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING 10 software at the company’s booth for a blog marketing campaign Brett is conducting for the product. The traffic at the booth was brisk, so the demonstration went well. Brett held three drawings throughout the day for a free full license of the product.

       
    BRETT AND ROB MACNEALY             BRETT AND EWAN SPENCE

My "mainstream media" news anchorman friend Dave Courvoisier had told me that he wanted to check out the blogging and new media scene. He got full press credentials and dropped by the Expo early in the afternoon Saturday. We conducted our own sweep of the exhibits on the floor and  then attended the conference session about Twitter’’s role in journalism, conducted by Robert Scoble, Doc Searls and Laura Fitton. Dave found the panel discussion and interaction from the audience to be very interesting, as did I. After the session, we made our way back to the exhibit floor for another hour of networking and checking out the exhibit booths. Both of us were Inspired enough by it all that we decided to conduct an impromptu discussion about new media in the Blogger and Podcaster magazine booth. Wouldn’t you know it, the Larstan camera crew just happened to be on hand to record our chat.

At the end of the day, Brett and I met with Larry and Lenny for drinks and some business chatting, followed by dinner at the Hilton.  A quick stop at the official Blogworld Party at the  hotel followed (but, for once, I didn’t bring the camera to this bash). Not surprisingly, I ran  into several more old friends. But, after a very long day, the networking blues started setting in.  It was definitely time to disengage from business, relax and play some cards! Lenny and I journeyed into the Hilton Hotel’s casino. After a few hours of battling the blackjack dealers with and, finally, winning a bit of cash, it was time to call it a night (or early morning as was now the case). Brett, meanwhile, was on his way to the airport to catch the redeye home to Charlotte. Exhausted, I headed back to his hotel for a few hours of shuteye.

The final day of the Expo was yet to come. Check out our next post, Same website, same blog…..

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