The Second International Jewish Bloggers Convention
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
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Dear Blogger,
We’d like to invite you to register for the upcoming Second International Jewish Bloggers Convention – “Uniting the Jewish Community through Social Media”, Presented by Nefesh b'Nefesh and Powered by WebAds.
The convention will be held in Jerusalem and Online on Sunday, September 13, 2009.
It will include workshops, panels, special guest speakers, the comedy of Benji Lovitt, and of course dinner (in Israel).
In Israel there will be a NIS 50 entrance fee.
You can view the convention schedule online and register at http://www.JBloggers.org.
You can participate in the twitter conversation at http://www.twitter.com/jbloggers #jbloggers .
Take this opportunity to once again meet your fellow bloggers, learn more about how to use the latest Social Media tools to improve your blogging and increase your readership, and find out how blogging is changing and affecting the Jewish community.
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Looking forward to seeing you there, it promises to be very interesting.
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B"H
Honestly, I am not sure if I am going to participate in this again. Workshops, Benji Lovitt ... all that sounds rather boring to me. I am not one of those English speaking comedy freaks and don't think that any of those Kilimnicks and Lovitts is particulary funny.
That's my personal opinion and others are welcomed to disagree and find them funny.
Hm, special guests speakers will be those who are not controversial and know how to behave and shut up. The light national religious clan and some "Israel Matzav". Nothing juicy but rather sleepy.:-)
I really don't know if it is worth coming to Jerusalem for this event.
We will see ...
Monday, August 10, 2009
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I don't think I want to bother this year--NIS 50 to listen to pre-programmed speeches and people who are really not funny or interesting...nahhh
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteIt is not the 50 Shekels !
I would be willing to pay if there was an interesting programme but it looks like NbN is presenting the same boring stuff from last year.
Who is in the panel ?
The family blogger Treppenwitz and the hardly dressed leftist Oleh Girl from Tel Aviv ?
I can surely live without them. Well, I am not expecting the Toldot Aharon Rebbe (well, this would be some excitement) but at least a bunch of serious informative topics.
Miriam, I hope you come. I think you'll find my part entertaining.
ReplyDeleteBenji
B"H
ReplyDeleteTo be honest:
I am not sure !
B"H
ReplyDeletePerhaps you'll consider going for one reason.
To attend the workshop with the Foreign Ministry Rep. and give her and them a piece of your mind about how you refuse to be a puppet for the government.
I am encouraging every and any blogger who does not identify as "establish," to go and be heard.
Plus, if you go, I may include you in my secret plan...
;-}
B"H
ReplyDeleteDon't tell me your are going this time. The Kvetcher is already on the panel and I still remember him last year gossiping and refusing the conference in a "vicious" way. It really looks like they got him this time. Maybe NbN is paying for his ticket and thus make him to shut up.
I just wonder how people can be bought so easily.
Why are you going now ?
To yell at the guy from the Foreign MInistry ?
This won't help you, as the guards will shut you up.:-)
So, what is your secret plan ?
Kidnapping the Ministry guy ??? :-))))
I really don't think I am going.
ReplyDeleteDon't go to yell at the ministry guy. Go to express your views. Then see what happens.
Will this convention be just some pseudo convention as a cover for an NBN promotion and/or money making scheme?
I am concerned that they are not really interested in having various voices heard. Many did not like having the Foreign Ministry rep. there last year, and said so.
But, many also were star struck to have Bibi there and were slobbering all over him because don't have a clue as to what to do when around famous people.
I think for the most part, bloggers are happy just to have a place to gather for social reasons. So, they don't really care if this is a real convention or a sham.
Steve who organizes it, is a good guy with good intentions. But, still, we'll have to see what happens.
The verdict is still out in my opinion.
Who is the Kvetcher?
I saw David Abutbul will be gracing them with his presence once again.... Is that who you meant?
B"H
ReplyDeleteI am not participating and I tell you why. NbN surely has a good intention but what really bothered me last year was how some bloggers made themselves so important. They thought that they are something and this kind of arrogance disturbed me.
Example: The "MyShrapnel" Lady or "Treppenwitz". Shrapnel was a pain and Treppenwitz was so terribly full of himself. I am not going to suffer through them again.
Only because there is such a conference, the participants shouldn't think of themselves as celebrities.
The Kvetcher is David Kelsey ! He is "Failed Messiah"'s best buddy and together they are the haredi hating front.:-)
If you want to know how to make your blog better know, just watch ED DALE on Youtube. The "Thirty Day Challenge" or read Yaro Starak. The NbN conference will probably give the same advice in those workshops.:-)
I certainly do not blame you.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking to give the "convention" one more chance to be open to non-mainstream, "insider," "establishment" bloggers like myself.
By going inside, it can be shown once and for all, that there's hope or that we need to expose this for a sham, that has no business being called a bloggers convention, if it's just going to be a cover up show.
I'm already suspicious when A7 people are involved.
Was David Kelsey on one of the panels? I remember Esther Kustinitch was {My Urban Kvetch}.
Last year, I talked about the gaivah being so thick you could cut it with a knife.
I certainly don't like the Haredi bashing either...
Most people I spoke to this year told me to get over it, and go and have a good time.
I am not going to, and may or may not blog about why.
Thanks for the tip about Ed Dale.
B"H
ReplyDeleteNo, David Kelsey was not there at all last year. Just the opposite: He led a war against the conference on his Kvetcher blog.:-)
This is what most people say:
"Go and have a good time".
So, they have a good time. But I have to say that I was quite bored last year and already then decided not to come anymore.
As I said, many bloggers were so full of themselves and I believe that if their readers knew about the blogger personality, he would just run away.
It looks like the conference is mostly sponsored by this commercial company (Ad....something) and, of course, the participants will be a kind of brainwashed using those particular ads in their blogs.
To me this looks like one of those cheap trips you go on and have to listen to a promotion lecture during the trip.
I don't think that they have anything to add to Ed Dale, Chris Garrett or Yaro Starak.
Go to their sites and you won't need the conference. Only the food you have to buy yourself while reading.:-))))
Shabbat Shalom !!!
Thanks again for the tips.
ReplyDeleteI think you provided a pretty accurate depiction of the convention,...unfortunately.
If being full of yourself means sitting in the back so you can sneak over to the food table, GET READY FOR MORE SELF-IMPORTANCE, BABY!!!
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDelete@ Benji
If there are no further arguments available then we (me ?) are being accused of taking the food. Quite primitive !
So, don't offer anything to eat. And if, don't accuse people of taking anything or too much.
But don't worry; this time you can have all the food by yourself !
Miriam, I was making fun of myself. Now I KNOW you haven't read my blog. : )
ReplyDeleteI hope you come!
B"H
ReplyDeleteI have read your blog sometimes but then you didn't mention any food.:-)
Miriam Woelke,
ReplyDeleteYou are misrepresenting the Kvetcher's posts on the conference last year. The Kvetcher was distraught that there were no bloggers that were not either dati or Zionist on the panel. He felt the title "International Jewish Bloggers Conference" was unfair, given that the presenters and panelists (he claimed, I don't know) were not a cross-section of the Jewish people.
He went this year, because he was invited speaker, which of course adds the diversity he felt was lacking. The emcee of his panel was also secular.
B"H
ReplyDeleteWhatever his reasons were, I still remember his bad language in the articles. Including a comment to Aussie David where the Kvetcher said to him: "Fuck You".
The Kvetcher then was already accused of being offended because no one had invited him as a panel member. I think that this was very true.:-)
However, he was on the panel this year but I don't think that this made the convention more interesting. I watched the video and just skipped most parts because I almost fell asleep.:-)
Furthermore, one of the exceptions to "diversity" made very clear last year by the sponsors was that bloggers expressing anti-Israel type bashing anti-aliyah sentiment would not be included.
ReplyDeleteI bash the government, courts and policies all the time, so I can confirm that this did indeed mean the the land of Israel or concept of Jewish sovereignty over Israel. Thus self hating, supposedly Jewish bloggers aiding and abetting the enemy in Ramallah or eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem were not invited last year.
This was one of the few things I appreciated about the convention planning.