The February 2011 Vancouver Blogger Meetup summary/recap

Normally, Jan Karlsbjerg does these ones. But this time he wasn’t there (I don’t think he likes the idea of panels, but I totally understand where he is coming from). I am grateful to him nonetheless for the unofficial role of Scribe that he takes on, completely selflessly (and kudos to him for that). Here are my quick notes on the panel, and a great summary post by Dave Macdonald.

To be quite honest, I totally thought that the panel about blogging about sex was going to be packed. Nothing further from the truth. While there was a great audience of more than 20 people, I don’t think it was nearly as many people as I expected. I am an abstract theorizer so these are the concepts I gained and learned.

keywords I learned at #sexblogging panel: structure, consent, boundaries, respect, empowerment, speaking from “I” positions

I found that the theoretical lessons that one can draw from blogging about sex apply to all sides of blogging, as indicated above. Dave’s post is absolutely beautiful and a must-read. And more than anything, thanks to Danielle, Phaedra and Monica for opening up the conversation about blogging about sex, and to The Network Hub for space sponsorship. I do think that, along with our Building Communities Online Through Blogging, we are off to a great start with the mix of social and panels at the Vancouver Blogger Meetup.

Learn more about this meetup here (full disclosure: I am the organizer). Thanks also to Shane Birley for helping me as my assistant organizer, as well as Jonathon Narvey who is my other Assistant Organizer but he couldn’t be there last night.