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August 1, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

Last week I attended BlogHer 2007. For full disclosure, Edelman was a sponsor as were a number of Edelman clients. Lucky for me, it was right in my city and all I had to do was hop on a bus to get there. BlogHer welcomed bloggers from around the world to Navy Pier, but plenty of folks joined online.

Here are a few ways to follow a conference online if you can't attend in person.

1. Do a search for the conference name or tag using Google Blogsearch or Technorati and then subscribe to the RSS feed using an RSS aggregator.

2. Is the conference doing a webcast or offering live blogging coverage? The links can be found on the conference website and offer a great way to interact in real time.

3. Head to Flickr and follow the conference through photos. Everyone seems to have a camera phone and photos start going up as soon as the first plane lands in the conference city.

4. If it is a conference full of folks on Twitter, you can use Twittermap to follow the short bursts of information.

posted by leah.jones

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