What a day!

Finally, day two of blogs n dogs, the moment we've all been waiting for.

Since my original conversation with Slav, back in August of this yeah, when we first spoke about doing this event and she suggested to go do dog sledding (we were trying to find something that rim with blogs). I've been looking forward to this day!

Today, 24 participants and faculty members of "blogsndogs" went on a two-hour dog sled tour with the fine people of the Howling Dog Tours outfit out of Canmore, Alberta (about 20 minutes drive from Banff).

Our guide, Sidney, also the manager of the company told us she's been doing this for 6 years. Howling Dog Tours currently have over 200 dogs. They do on average 4 trip per day. Each trip cover a distance of approximatly 10kms, it takes just about 2 hours with a fun hot chocolate, jerky and dried fruits break. The cost of the tour is $125 per person, and you can have up to 3 person per sled. If you are feeling adventurous, you can even take a turn guiding the sled! One more item off my 43 things list.

Eric Rice, was filming and podcasting during the sledding for his next installment of his Backstaging show from Banff. Check out the flickr tags on "blogsledding" to see some of the pictures taken today.

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Another fine sunny day in beautiful Banff, Alberta. Day two of blogsndogs is underway. I woke up early and had myself a big breakfast!

Kris Krug and I are geeking out, podcasting and getting ready to go dog sled.. I am so excited, I barely slept.

"blogsndogs" is on the current and the past week hot tags on flickr

What is eMarketing?

Term referring to the Internet and e-mail based aspects of a marketing campaign, such as banner ads, e-mail marketing, search engine optimization, Pay-Per-Click, and other tools. Also referred to as "Online Advertising."

A full definition can be found on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-marketing

It's all about Visibility in 2005

• 888 millions users (14% of world population)
• In North America 65% of web user have access to broadband (high speed internet)
• 44% of internet users and one-quarter of all adults, now say they use online banking.
  

Roland Tanglao, Eric Rice and Will Pate took the lead with the first session on technology.

Here's some of the key points of blogging technology presented in this first intro workshop.

• tagging and tags
• RSS
• aggregator
• flickr
• Bloglines

Welcome to Banff and the Banff Centre!

The faculty and the particpants of Blogs n Dogs met tonight in a casual wine and cheese mixer.

Will and Amy

View some of the pictures I took using Sarah Pullman's camera (a Canon Powershot S400).

We had a long day of travel; Will, Erik and I made our way from Vancouver. We decided to drive the 850+ KMS to Banff since we had to bring the podcasting and computer gear.

What a drive, I love the Rockies!

Now, we are all in Kris Krug's room, geeking out on the BNMI open wireless network.

Currently playing with us, we have Sarah Pullman, Travis and Susannah of Hop Studios, Eric Rice, and a few other folks.

Susie Gardner, co-founder and creative director of Hop Studios Internet Consultants will be joining the faculty, replacing Alexandra Samuel who could no longer commit to the event due to work and personal reasons.

Susannah is also a freelance writer and author; her latest books is “Buzz Marketing With Blogs for Dummies.� and she recently published “BitTorrent for Dummies,� co-authored with Kris Krug. She is also the co-author of “Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Dummies,� from Wiley Publishing, and “Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004,� also from Wiley Publishing. He expertise and experience with blogs will be a great addition to our panels

November 7th marked the last day participants could submit their entries to enter the contest to attend the Blogs n Dogs event.

This week, we looked at the various submissions narrowing them down to the following 6 participants.

Marc Sirkin

Monique Trottier

Stacie Zaychuk

Jake McKee

Derek K. Miller

David Peralty

The BNMI Accelerator program is happy to offer a scholarship for one person to attend the event.

You can win a "scholarship" to the Blogs'n'Dogs workshop in Banff (excluding airfare) by entering a contest.

The prize is a scholarship which includes the workshop fee, activity fee, accommodation and meals, and the airport transfer fees to and from the airport to Banff. (In short, all expenses are paid except airfare).

To enter, go to the bottom of this page and enter your URL, a brief description of your blog, your goals in blogging, subject matters and what you hope to learn at the workshop.

Well it is official, Blogs n Dogs is happening!

Registration is opening on October 19th 2005. Complete the online form to attend the event.

Once registered, please take a moment to fill out the participant form, this will help the faculty better assess the needs of the participants.

We hope to see you all in Banff, December 4th.

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