First Blogging Conference in Savannah is Announced

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They’re calling it Un-Conference ‘07.

BlogSavannah has announced they will be hosting a conference for all things bloggish 25-27 January ‘07 right here in Savannah. Here is an excerpt from their conference page:

At this 1.5 day event we will provide a very friendly, laid back atmosphere in which to learn about, talk about, and disect the blogosphere both in the Low Country and the world around us. With each session being led by a noted blogger and the sessions being relevant to the blogger cause, we are hoping to start an annual tradition of technology and friendship! The cost is FREE and all you have to do is register and show up!

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Getting Internet Face Time

When I was in the Navy I learned about an interesting success concept. When it came to the subject of furthering their careers, a lot of time seemed to be spent by officers discussing the subject of “Face Time“.

Face Time was time spent face to face with the commanding officer or other senior military leaders. The idea being the more time you were right in front of the skipper, the more easily your name would come to mind when he had to sit down for fitness report competitive rankings. And the more he was thinking about you when he was trying to decide which of his fine officers to rank first, you had a greater chance of getting a higher ranking.

As an aside, I had a roommate who held to a corollary of the Face Time principle which said, “Negative face time was still face time.” Personally I wouldn’t subscribe to his idea. I don’t want to be known as a screw-up. But he has a point. When some celebrity does something stupid or gets arrested (or gets arrested because they did something stupid) it makes the papers and gets their name out. Even so, I wouldn’t recommend that approach.

Anyway why to I bring this subject up?

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