04.02.06
Posted in blogvention at 1:48 pm by Brandon
After about a year and a half of anticipation, the time for blogvention nears. Previously, I’ve asked a few people for some tentative thoughts on whether you think you’d like to come to blogvention. This post will serve as the official invitation.
The details of what exactly blogvention is are available at the above “blogvention” link.
I’d like to ask that if you’d like to take part in all or some of the blogvention 2006 festivities, you please email me at brandon[at]badchristian.com with the phrase “Blogvention RSVP” in the subject line. In your email it would be incredibly helpful if you’d include a few key sorts of details, namely:
- Your full name
- If you have a blog, include the title and URL of your blog
- Your home city and state
- A phone number at which you can be contacted
Your phone number will, of course, be kept strictly confidential. The other information will be used to enable the creation of some sort of blogvention nametag so that we can identify each other amongst the other Festival of Faith and Writing attendees.
Also, I am going to make myself available in (or near) the lobby of the Fine Arts Center at Calvin, which is where the Festival of Faith and Writing check-in will take place. I’m going to be there between 9am and 11:30am on the Thursday morning of the festival (April 20th). If you’re not available to check in with me at that time and get your nametag, let me know in your email, and we’ll work out some other time to meet.
It should be noted that the folks in charge of the Festival of Faith and Writing haven’t a clue that anything called blogvention even exists–at least not to my knowlege. So, if you ask them something about Blogvention, don’t be surprised if you get a slightly befuddled response. Instead if you have questions about blogvention, direct them to me or the blogvention planning committee (which is comprised by me).
But, really, there’s not much to ask questions about. Basically, blogvention is a bunch of people jointly attending the Festival of Faith and Writing, who’ll be vaguely identifiable by their name-tags, and who, after the festival winds down each evening will have the option of going out for drinks with their newly minted “blog-turned-real-life-friends.” It should be gobs of fun.
Once I have your email addresses and know who’s coming I’ll try to whip up a more official schedule of where the evening hang out spots will be. (Those of you farmiliar with Grand Rapids who’d care to improve on my previously posted tentative schedule by suggesting different or better places to go out, I’m happy to entertain constructive criticisms.)
I’m pretty excited to meet those of you I haven’t met before, and I’m also excited to see a few of you whose paths rarely cross mine!
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Posted in blogvention at 1:48 pm by Brandon
After about a year and a half of anticipation, the time for blogvention nears. Previously, I’ve asked a few people for some tentative thoughts on whether you think you’d like to come to blogvention. This post will serve as the official invitation.
The details of what exactly blogvention is are available at the above “blogvention” link.
I’d like to ask that if you’d like to take part in all or some of the blogvention 2006 festivities, you please email me at brandon[at]badchristian.com with the phrase “Blogvention RSVP” in the subject line. In your email it would be incredibly helpful if you’d include a few key sorts of details, namely:
- Your full name
- If you have a blog, include the title and URL of your blog
- Your home city and state
- A phone number at which you can be contacted
Your phone number will, of course, be kept strictly confidential. The other information will be used to enable the creation of some sort of blogvention nametag so that we can identify each other amongst the other Festival of Faith and Writing attendees.
Also, I am going to make myself available in (or near) the lobby of the Fine Arts Center at Calvin, which is where the Festival of Faith and Writing check-in will take place. I’m going to be there between 9am and 11:30am on the Thursday morning of the festival (April 20th). If you’re not available to check in with me at that time and get your nametag, let me know in your email, and we’ll work out some other time to meet.
It should be noted that the folks in charge of the Festival of Faith and Writing haven’t a clue that anything called blogvention even exists–at least not to my knowlege. So, if you ask them something about Blogvention, don’t be surprised if you get a slightly befuddled response. Instead if you have questions about blogvention, direct them to me or the blogvention planning committee (which is comprised by me).
But, really, there’s not much to ask questions about. Basically, blogvention is a bunch of people jointly attending the Festival of Faith and Writing, who’ll be vaguely identifiable by their name-tags, and who, after the festival winds down each evening will have the option of going out for drinks with their newly minted “blog-turned-real-life-friends.” It should be gobs of fun.
Once I have your email addresses and know who’s coming I’ll try to whip up a more official schedule of where the evening hang out spots will be. (Those of you farmiliar with Grand Rapids who’d care to improve on my previously posted tentative schedule by suggesting different or better places to go out, I’m happy to entertain constructive criticisms.)
I’m pretty excited to meet those of you I haven’t met before, and I’m also excited to see a few of you whose paths rarely cross mine!
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kate said,
April 5, 2006 at 11:00 am
Do I have to register if I live here? Just checking.
Brandon said,
April 5, 2006 at 11:23 am
Good question, Kate.
I’d say yes, it’d be great if you could let me know you were coming because I’m going to try to have some sort of sticker (or somesuch) that identifies you as a blogger, that can go on your nametag.
kate said,
April 5, 2006 at 12:06 pm
This is going to be hard for me. I am not a joiner.
Nevertheless, I will email you my info. I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to make it to everything (we might have other company in town, FFW is a popular event), but I’ll get to everything I can!
Brandon said,
April 5, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I’d be positively shocked if ANYBODY made it to everything. This (blogvention) is really just sort of an informal “let us gather at the watering hole and break tortilla chips together until we’re on our knees (either in prayer or in-toxicated)” when you can sort of event.
Long story short, blogvention has turned so organic that it’s not much more than a nametag by which you can be identified at the FFW. That way, if bloggers are around at the FFW, we can identify eachother, say hello, and go out for drinks if we so desire.
Hope this alleviates any confusion or angst about convention going!
wildwest said,
April 5, 2006 at 5:39 pm
I don’t have a blog. Guess I can’t show up, huh?
Mel said,
April 6, 2006 at 12:47 am
Did you go to Calvin? No wonder I stuck around on this blog once I stumbled upon it…
wildwest said,
April 6, 2006 at 9:09 am
Yeah. Or are you asking Brandon?
greg said,
April 7, 2006 at 12:32 am
Brandon,
I don’t know if I’ve communicated with you about our inability to attend yet. I’m afraid my trip to Minneapolis for the Consumerism and Christianity conference makes it impossible for me to make the Calvin Festival. I wish it were otherwise. Drink a good beer for me.
Mel said,
April 7, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Well, whomever, I suppose. I’m 2001.
Doctor Omission said,
April 10, 2006 at 9:27 am
Brandon,
I just got wind that you have a blog that gets 10,000 hits a day - I’m surprised I haven’t come across this blog before. What are your plans after graduation? PHD? World Domination? Opening your own brewery?
If I had to choose for you, I’d say turn the world into alcoholics:)
- Thomas Rain
Brandon said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:18 am
10,000 hits is, I think, a bit high. However, I’d be positively thrilled to own my own brewery someday.
stephen said,
April 10, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Mel, I’m 2001 too. How crazy? Brandon, it doesn’t look like I can make it to blogvention. I have a cash flow problem, but I will see you at the summer workshop, right?
wildwest said,
April 11, 2006 at 7:31 am
You mean class of 2001? (Sorry. It’s hard to tell.)
Brandon said,
April 11, 2006 at 8:56 am
Oh, and for the record, I also am 2001–as is my wife.
wildwest said,
April 11, 2006 at 10:38 am
I’m 1986. Pleased to meet you.
Mel said,
April 21, 2006 at 1:26 am
Yeah, class of 2001, Chimes alum
wildwest said,
April 21, 2006 at 7:51 am
Dialogue alum
Mel said,
April 29, 2006 at 1:55 am
In case ya’ll need it: www.calvinspoof.com