Wrap-Up on Blogs and Dogs

Written earlier today, in the wifiless skies (but, of course, that’s changing):

I’m in seat 13C, somewhere over the Rockies, on my way back to Vancouver. Blogs ‘n’ Dogs was a slightly different kind of conference for me. It was more of a master class, with a small group of attendees and three intensive days of teaching, collaboration and nuttiness.

The attendees had varying levels of blogging acumen, but all were willing to dive in and get their hands dirty. Hopefully we’ve helped them understand the medium better, and how it applies to their various business, arts and other personal projects.

Robert Scales from Raincity Studios deserves tons of credit for organizing a great event and fostering a nice sense of camaraderie among the faculty and attendees. Credit also goes to BNMI, who took a bit of a chance on an extremely new idea.

It was a thrill for me to come to the Banff Centre. It’s got such cachet in Canada’s artistic community–for visual artists, musicians and writers, all roads lead to Banff. I clearly wasn’t there as an artist, but I dug the place’s vibe. Maybe some day I can return in the height of summer.

I figured I’d assemble an ad hoc list of attendees’ blogs and related projects. Keeners may also be interested in checking out the blogsndogs delicious tag, which has a pretty complete set of resources we referenced over the past four days. [more]

• Paydirt Pictures
  – Matt Palmer’s, an attendee, documentary on the Alberta oil sands.
• Jason Toal – attendee
  (seems to be b0rked at the moment)
• Peter Hansen
  – attendee
• Sarah Pullman
  – attendee
• Len Edgerly
  – attendee
• Monique – attendee
• Joelle Dietrick – attendee

That’s all I’ve got at the moment–I know I’m missing a bunch. Feel free to leave a comment with a link if you attended.

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