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By Joe Klein

The 2009 Blogworld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas has come and gone over a week ago. But since then, the articles, blogs, comments and videos streamed out in droves during a week that saw a great deal of other new media developments that emanated out of another event, the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, that, unfortunately, we weren’t able to attend.

As we have done with our blog posts of previous new media related events, we’ll do our best to provide our own recap, which is, for the most part, a mash-up of our own experiences and those of others that have been posted online since Blogworld ended.

New Media Creative associates BRETT BUMETER and I both arrived early for the conference, on Wednesday afternoon. After settling into our digs at the Las Vegas Hilton, we decided to skip dinner and opted instead to proceed directly to the pre opening night LAS VEGAS TWEETUP at the Hilton’s Tempo Lounge, which started at 6:00 PM. We also wanted to meetup with our old friend ANDY EVANS, who is the CEO and founder of London-based NET COMMUNITIES and PODCAST VOICES. By the time we arrived at about 7:00, our friend Andy had also arrived and it was great to see our old mate for the first time since 2007. The meetup was in full gear with at least a couple hundred early-arrivers already drinking and networking to the max. A few tweets reported that over 300 tweeps attended this lively gathering, which was hosted by the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. There were drawings for free rooms and dining certificates at the hotel.

We hung out at the LV Tweetup for a couple of hours, played a little blackjack with Andy and then moved on to an impromptu soiree at the Wynn Hotel that was tweeted out by Brian Solis and a few dozen of his closest friends. This get-together was supposed to be in one of the hotel’s dining rooms, but too many wild and crazy bloggers and tweeters showed up, so everyone was re-routed to a large outdoor balcony patio overlooking the hotel’s famed LAKE OF DREAMS which features a pretty incredible three dimensional multi-media show on a small man-made lake with a large cascading waterfall. After this event, it was definitely time to head back to the room, relax for a bit and then catch some ZZZZ’s before the Expo got officially underway.

Here are some pictures from Wednesday night’s Tweetup and party at the Wynn…..

TIM STREET, ANDY AND JOE	JOE, TED MURPHY AND BRETT

JOE, JULIE VASQUEZ AND BRETT	JOE AND NICOLE SIMON

ANDY, EWAN SPENCE AND JOE	TODD COCHRANE, BRIAN YUHNKEE AND JOE

WARREN WHITLOCK AND JOE	VICTOR CAJAIO AND JOE

ROBERT GAINES AND JOE	TED MURPHY AND ANDY

ANDY AND FRIENDS AT THE WYNN	CC CHAPMAN AND JOE AT THE WYNN

LAKE OF DREAMS AT THE WYNN	LAKE OF DREAMS AT THE WYNN

LAKE OF DREAMS AT THE WYNN	LAKE OF DREAMS AT THE WYNN

Here is a YouTube video shot a couple of years ago of ”Winnie,” a giant animated frog who sings during the Lake Of Dreams Show. We missed this portion of the show while we were at the party, so it was cool to find it online. The video appears to have been shot from the same patio balcony that Brian’s party gathered on. This attraction really is a “must see” at The Wynn Las Vegas!

Thursday, it was off to the races, with the first full day of Blogworld conferences. (The exhibit floor didn’t open until Friday.) We dropped in on several, while, at the same time, met up with old friends and networked with new ones. There was a pretty nice luncheon for the full access show attendees that day, which also featured a “mini-panel” discussion with the head of social media at the Ford Motor company, SCOTT MONTY and columnist and tech market blogger KARA SWISHER . Not too sure whether having this little panel while people were still eating was such a good idea, because people were pretty much into having lunch and chatting it up with others at their table and not all that into listening to a new media and blogging business discussion as they ate. Not to mention, it was pretty hard to hear. Still, Scott and Kara had some good points to make and case studies to pass on. Oh, and the baby greens salad, steak and asparagus lunch wasn’t bad! Kara posted an article and video interview with Scott Monty which you can view here and a separate story and video interview with Blogworld co-founders RICK CALVERT and DAVE CYNKIN which can be accessed here.

Our long time podcasting and blogging pal, MICHAEL BUTLER, also known as THE ROCK AND ROLL GEEK and director/host of the MEVIO MUSIC NETWORK, arrived from San Francisco just after lunch. We picked him up and returned to the LVCC just in time for the mid-afternoon keynote panel with web strategist JEREMIAH OWYANG, founder of IZEA TED MURPHY and “e-mom” WENDY PIERSALL. The panelists offered up a lot of dialogue and blogging, social media and the Federal Trade Commission’s new guidelines regarding endorsement disclosures. (The FTC story is one created quite a stir in the blogging community earlier this month, and was the subject of major news coverage the week before Blogworld.)

THE RNR GEEK

THE AFTERNOON KEYNOTE PANEL

Michael, Brett and I left the panel discussion a little more than half way through to wander the halls and drop in on a few other sessions going on at the Expo. Of course we bumped in to a variety of old friends and colleagues at every step of the way and I got Michael to shoot a few more photos.

JOE WITH THE BOURQUINS	LEWIS HOMES AND JOE	JOE AND CHRIS BROGAN

CHRIS HEUER AND JOE	MIKE MCALLEN AND BRETT	ROB WALCH AND JOE

We needed to end up at final event of Blogworld’s first day, the day’s closing keynote presented by new and social media guru CHRIS BROGAN. This was my first “announcer gig” of the conference for me, and my first public appearance as “New Media Joe.”  After a few opening remarks by Blogworld’s CEO and co-founder, Rick Calvert. I was introduced to the full room and “did my thing” with the Chris Brogan intro. Fortunately, I managed to get the crowd pretty worked up for what turned out to be a pretty insightful session by Chris. As tweets from the those in attendance (and others following the Blogworld stream online) flashed on screens behind him, Chris inspired those gathered for the keynote with his thoughts, observations and numerous tips for achieving blogging and social media success. The video of Chris Brogan’s entire closing keynote can be viewed by clicking here. Here are a few photos of the keynote, including one of good old New Media Joe introducing Chris to the adoring crowd!

“NEW MEDIA JOE’S” FIRST GIG!	CHRIS BROGAN INSPIRES THE CROWD

CHRIS BROGAN	MICHAEL AND CC AT THE KEYNOTE

After the closing keynote, we returned to the hotel for a recharge and to “freshen up” for the night that was just ahead, which was upon us in a flash. We picked up our pal Andy and headed over to the BELLAGIO Hotel, where we decided we would rather partake in their very elaborate buffet (which includes lots of sushi and seafood delights which we favor) so we didn’t have to worry about picking through “party food” later on. Besides, we were totally famished. After a pretty scrumptious feast, we proceeded on the THE BANK nightclub in the hotel, where the very hot TECHSET party, hosted once again this year by BRIAN SOLIS and STEPHANIE AGRESTA, was already raging on at full steam. Although the music was quite loud, and the crowd was pretty rowdy, everyone there seemed to be having a great time, including us! Here are some pix of the gang at Thursday night’s party at The Bank nightclub…..
 
 
 
 
 

We hung out at this fling for for a couple of hours before heading out and back to the Hilton. Our big mistake (or, more accurately, mine, as I was driving) was heading east on Flamingo Road from the strip to Paradise Road. Ongoing construction (which I thought had ended many weeks ago) still had the popular thoroughfare down to one lane in each direction and it took us well over half an hour to travel the three or so miles from the Bellagio Hotel back to the Hilton. Butler and I were exhausted by this time, but our mates, Brett and Andy still had lots of energy left and wanted to party some more! So, upon arriving at the Hilton, I opted to loan my car (and some spending cash) to the two “kids” so they could continue to revel through the night! God only knows (or maybe even he doesn’t know) what kind of escapades they chose to partake in until all hours!

Michael Butler and I proceeded to the Hilton’s Tempo Lounge (where the Wednesday night Tweetup took place) for a nightcap, and as fate would have it, ran into our good friend TODD COCHRANE and his own cohorts from RAWVOICE, who were in Vegas themselves to man their company booth and host their own Blogworld party on Friday night. We hung out with the Raw Voice crew for about an hour, and it was time to pack it in for the night. But, where were Andy and Brett, pray tell?

With the two main days of the Blogworld Expo still ahead of us, we knew that were was much more to come…..

In Part Two of our Blogworld Expo recap, we’ll share our experiences from the event’s two big days, Friday and Saturday. This “really big post” will also include loads of additional photos and links to numerous other reports that have been posted online over the last week Look for the next installment to be up and running right here, same company, same blog, in the next few days, if all goes as planned!

Until we post again, we’ll end this one with two pretty cool videos. First, the promo video for the 2009 Blogworld and New Media Expo posted online by the events organizers, Rick Calvert and Dave Cynkin…..

Next, my own personal favorite Blogworld promo video that I came across while poking around on YouTube! Great job and a great example of getting out the word using viral video!

 

 

 

NEW MEDIA CREATIVE associate BRETT BUMETER was recently selected to be part of an elite group of IZEA INSIDERS.

IZEA established the IZEA INSIDER program to forge a stronger bond with the blogger, podcaster and new media community, and provide insight and innovation for established bloggers already working with IZEA.

Brett has worked with IZEA in multiple capacities since the company’s formation in 2006.  Most recently he worked to build buzz for the launch of the latest voice recognition software from NUANCE, DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING PREFERRED 10.

Brett’s well-executed and aggressive blog marketing campaign has, to date, generated in excess of 128% more impressions than original projections, and the impressions continue to mount.

IZEA, an aggressive blog and social media marketing company, runs a number of online sites and manages a blogging network of over 200,000 active blogs which offers advertisers the means to connect with tens of millions of readers every week. Brett has most recently been involved in an ambitious blog marketing program that was tied into a successful Sears campaign involving several highly visible bloggers.

The program that Brett is currently working on kicks off early in the new year, but our aggressive blog and affiliate marketing guru has hit the ground running, launching a group called THE LIVE WRITERS.

Brett conceived THE LIVE WRITERS to help bloggers hone their blogging abilities and, at the same time, develop effective monetization strategies for their blogging endeavors.

Brett and New Media Creative founder JOE KLEIN will be attending CES 2009 and the AFFILATE SUMMIT WEST conference in Las Vegas in January and will be reporting and blogging from those events. Check back next month for updates, and more.

As always, we’re pleased and proud about Brett’s accomplishments in the vital and rapidly expanding areas of blog and affiliate marketing, not to mention his ever-expanding expertise in the areas of social media and SEO. For more about Brett’s endeavors through his own company and to check out his latest blogs visit his SOFTDUIT MEDIA website

Stay tuned to hear more about Brett’s continuing efforts in these and other campaigns in the coming months and for news and announcements about new projects and campaigns from NEW MEDIA CREATIVE!