We are adding another social media event to our calendar for January.  Softduit Media will be covering WordCamp: Las Vegas in between CES 2009 and Affiliate Summit West 2009.

We will only cover one day of this event due to conflicts with the events of Affiliate Summit, but this looks like another great opportunity to learn more about WordPress, interact with larger segments of people and groups that are also doing some great things in Social Media and more.

Here’s the schedule for Saturday at Las Vegas WordCamp. 

Plus, there is information there on an unrelated contest sponsored by our friends at Affiliate Summit.  Their giving away Gold Passes this week!

You can learn more at our post on There’s Something About Harry titled

Win a Free Affiliate Summit Silver Pass Worth $349!

Softduit Media is pleased to announce coverage of Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Affiliate Summit West will take place January 11 – 13.

This will be the first year that Softduit Media will cover Affiliate Summit.  Our readers can follow coverage of this affiliate marketing conference and tradeshow through several Softduit Media properties including:

• Top10Tech
• Top10Tech WebTips
• The LiveWriterz

Plus, Softduit Media will also provide excerpts of key areas of coverage here at Softduit.com.

Softduit Media will once again this year travel to cover the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Softduit has covered CES annually since 2007.  This year Softduit will cover the show across multiple sites and venues including Softduit Media properties:

• Top10Tech
• Maven Mapper’s Information
• Solar Gold Mine Digest

Once again this year Softduit Media will also be working with our partners at New Media Creative and Izea at this event using tools and support made available by Sony and services through Utterli. 

Softduit Media will also work on unrelated projects with Mevio while in Las Vegas as well.  Softduit Media previously worked with Mevio in April of 2008 covering River Run, which included interviews with Joan Jett and coverage of news events of the River Run fire that broke out during the 4 day event.

Contact for Interviews or Meetings

If you will be attending or exhibiting at CES in 2009, and would like to coordinate or request an interview of your company, products, or services, please contact Brett Bumeter by leaving a comment here or contacting Brett through LinkedIn, Facebook or Utterli.

The Izea Insider program will officially kick off in January of 2009.  Brett along with other Izea Insiders will

• travel the country working to raise the profile of bloggers across the blogosphere,
• bring best practices and experiences to the blogosphere, and
• help companies, clients and advertisers learn how to effectively navigate successful paths through social media.

As part of the program, Brett will gather together a large team of bloggers, podcasters and social media gurus to work together, and help each other.

We have set up a website at http://thelivewriterz.com/ for the purpose of coordinating this activity along with groups on LinkedIn, Facebook and Utterli.  If you are a blogger or podcaster, work in social media or are interested in becoming a blogger, podcaster or social media guru yourself, leave a comment here or contact us today, and we can get you started in the right direction through TheLiveWriterz and with the help and support of Izea!

WordCamp Birmingham was organized by Andre Natta, publisher of the hyper-local Birmingham blog, “The Terminal”.  Mr. Bumeter was a featured speaker at the event providing training at the event for the use of Microsoft’s WindowsLiveWriter. 

WindowsLiveWriter is a free desktop program that can be utilized to publish to a number of blogging platforms including, WordPress, Blogger, SharePoint, WindowsLive and many more.

He stated, 

“This is just the beginning for blogging. People are getting better and better at this skill set, quality is improving, and we will soon have millions of people generating great content around the clock.”

• Brett Bumeter

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008 - Day 5: Brands Enter The Blogosphere

Update 9-27-08 - Here is an overview of what we covered along with some great information to get you going with WindowsLiveWriter.

WindowsLiveWriter - Blogging with any Blogging Software Has Never Been Easier

I will be covering how to use WindowsLiveWriter to manage multiple blogs and how to use it with WordPress (among other blogging tools).

Whether you write for 1 blog or 10, Whether you use WordPress, Blogger, Moveable Type or Type pad or many others, Windows LIve Writer can speed up your work, polish your presentation and much more.

Table of Contents
Sep 19, 2008 - EXECUTIVE & ENTREPRENEUR CONFERENCE
Sep 19, 2008 - CITIZEN JOURNALISM WORKSHOP
Sep 19, 2008 - BLOGWORLD CONFERENCE
Sep 19, 2008 - REAL ESTATE BLOGWORLD
Sep 19, 2008 - B5MEDIA BLOGGER SUMMIT
Sep 19, 2008 - GODBLOGCON
Sep 20, 2008 - BLOGWORLD CONFERENCE
Sep 20, 2008 - GODBLOGCON
Sep 20, 2008 - PARTNER PROGRAMS
Sep 21, 2008 - BLOGWORLD CONFERENCE
Sep 21, 2008 - GODBLOGCON
Sep 21, 2008 - PARTNER PROGRAMS

Note the actual BlogWorld Conference is on the 20th and 21st with several breakout sessions on the 19th that can be added in an ala carte fashion.

In past years, this was known as the Podcast and New Media Expo, but the name has changed to the New Media Expo.  Tim Bourquin runs the show and does a fantastic job every year for attendees, exhibitors and everyone involved.  This is one of the best shows to meet people, learn the best new techniques and tools, and have some great in depth discussions on where we are all going in the New Media industry.

Moving the show from Ontario California to Las Vegas Nevada will definitely add some zing to this show and help it to grow faster, so I am expecting this show to have some record turn out compared to past years.  Since the show is taking place in Las Vegas in August, all exhibitors will be able to save a great deal of money on their Vegas visit.  This is the slow season for Vegas and there are lots of great hotel deals out there.  Many people have picked up comped rooms, super cheap deals and even if you are booking last minute (like I always do) you can still get to and from Vegas at rock bottom prices. 

Here are just a few of the areas covered in depth at the conference every year:

• Audio & Video Recording Devices
• Video Editing Tools and Services
• Audio Editing Tools and Services
• Content Hosting & Delivery
• Microphones, Mixers and Recorders
• Pro Audio & Video Equipment
• Subscription Tools & Services
• Advertising & Monetization Services
• RSS & Delivery Services
• Media Playback Devices
• Content Creation Computers
• Virtual World Content
• User-Generated Content
• Mobile Content & Delivery
• Digital Asset Management
• Portable Media Devices