Got back last evening from the
Sixth Annual Milblog Conference and I think it was the best one I've attended thus far! (I think I might say that every time I attend,lol, but seriously..great panels this year,I learned a lot and IMHO Andi ,and
Military.com and
USAA.com did an Awesome job once again!:)
Donald Rumsfeld's talk opened the conference
and then the first panel, Social Media and the Military, was a Great panel!
LTC William Caldwell spoke to the conference from Afghanistan, and here's the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan page
LINK
and this was a very meaningful panel, Gold Star Families.
My picture of the member of the member of the House Armed Services committee ,
Rob Wittman,who spoke live ,didn't turn out, but his short speech was also very good.
and the last panel, War and Film, was Also excellent. After this panel, I Really,Really wish I could go to the
GI Film Festival next weekend,but darn it, it's my weekend to work:(
I know a lot of folks who attend don't sit in on every panel, but if I get up at 4:30 a.m. and drive over 2 hours after paying the $75 to attend the conference, you can by gosh bet that I'll be sitting in to hear all the panels and soak up every minute of it! and I'm never disappointed! I learned so much yesterday, it was well worth my time.
Saw a lot of old friends, of course since I don't go up the Friday night before I miss a lot of the socializing. I still got the chance to speak to Most of the folks I wished to have a chance to say hello to,(sorry I missed LL though!:( and then I also got to meet a great many other random folks for the first time.
Sat next to a guy from
Footnote.com at lunch and that was a most interesting conversation!
Of course saw Blake from
Cooking With The Troops ,he had a great display table at the front of the room with a wonderful video display!
Chatted with some
Soldiers Angels folks during the course of the day briefly, and sat with my dear friend
Lisa from Soldiers Angels during the conference.
Learned a little about the
Home Depot Foundation (and thanks,y'all for the great lunch!:) had a brief chat with a young woman at the
Army Strong Stories table (which will probably lead me to finally do a blog post that's been hanging in the back of my mind since my step-son's deployment)
This
military wife asked a number of good questions during the course of her conference, I'm looking forward to checking out her blog more in depth. I also spoke with a military wife who should hopefully be emailing me with some more info about something she has in the works:)
Once again, the great folks at
YouServed featured a
livestream of the panels, and I think you can find links to those videos now right
here
I close with a pic that has nothing to do with the conference, but on the way home, I saw a hot air balloon drifting over the interstate, pretty cool :)
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Update: 'geek' excitement on my part:) I cross-posted a version of this post over at
Hooah Wife & Friends
and that post was linked in the May 3 edition of
STAND-TO!
(bottom left side
"What's Being Said in Blogs" The Sixth Annual Milblog Conference was Great! Awesome! Woot :)
