Tools

Blogs and RSS Feeds

BlogOn Blog
The BlogOn Blog provides running commentary on the conference program and Social Media issues by BlogOn speakers, sponsors, attendees and program committee members. If you would like to post to the BlogOn Blog, you can use trackback urls displayed under each blog post.

Get your own Blog
Don't have a blog of your own yet. BlogOn Event Partner Six Apart is offering a great opportunity for you to get started blogging: 3 months of free TypePad service and a 20% discount for life. Sign up here and use the promotional code 'BLOGON04' at the bottom of the signup form.

BlogOn Stacks
Stacks are custom filtered HTML and RSS feeds prepared by PubSub Concepts. They'll deliver you posts from all over the blogosphere on conference related topics.
* The BlogOn Conference
* Social Media
* RSS, RDF and Atom
* Blogging Tools

To create your own custom stacks in RSS or Atom, check out PubSub's website.

Conference Webcasts

Couldn't make it to BlogOn 2004 in person? We've arranged the next best thing.

Thanks to UC Berkeley's School of Journalism, many of Friday's sessions and presentations of are available by live video webcast for those who can't be on site for the conference.

DecisionCast's Alex Williams will be conducting live interactive audio interviews with many of BlogOn's speakers, presenters and participations.

All webcasts are available free with registration, and you'll have the opportunity to buy access to the edited archives, including speaker presentations, as a discounted rate.

Collaboration Tools

Collaborate with members of the BlogOn community anytime and anywhere. Check out the great collaboration tools we've lined up for you.

BlogOn Wiki
A collaborative workspace for BlogOn participants and other interested contributors. You can even see updates by RSS.

Internet Voice, Video and Data Conferencing
VidiTel delivers instant, secure group voice, video and data meetings from your Windows desktop. Viditel is offering BlogOn participants a FREE month and 60% off VidiTel's regular pricing. Sign-up with the promo code: BlogOn2004

IRC Chat
What modern conference could be taken seriously without a vibrant discussion on the IRC backchannel for attendees and remote participants. irc://irc.freenode.net/#blogon

BlogOn Community

BlogOn on LinkedIn
A special BlogOn group for business networking within LinkedIn, the leading online professional networking tool. Leverage the BlogOn network to find and reach business contacts. Your email address remains private; you will only receive contacts if you opt into the system. Registered BlogOn attendees are automatically pre-approved for membership. Join now.

News Channel

Thanks to our partners at PR Newswire, you can find all the press releases from BlogOn 2004 here.

BlogOn Bookstore

Here's a collection of books on blogging, social networking, marketing and media that our Program Committee members have recommended. If you have recommendations of your own, or perhaps your own book you want to pitch to the BlogOn community, add it to the BlogOn Wiki!

Dan Gillmor's new Book!: We the Media

The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual

Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices

We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs

We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture

10 Quick Steps to Chris Pirillo's Blog Traffic School

Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs

Getting a Job: A Study in Contacts and Careers

Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World