Yep, that slide really says ‘Better Blogger Workflow’…

So… the conference. I went to Chicago for a conference, not just to go to jazz gigs, wander around and look at public art, travel on the local rail (it’s called the ‘L’ train because it’s short for ‘Elevated’ - who knew?), drink in bars and buy records.

From an outsider’s perspective, this was about as geeky as it’s possible to get. A room full of bloggers, discussing blogging, all of them with their laptops open, all of them learning how to blog in such a way that they don’t have to do anything else in order to make a living. Just blog.

Yes - this was Biz School for Bloggers.

Some amazing speakers, and some speakers that stretched my tolerance threshold for motivational, emotion-laden, ‘you can do it - we can all do it!’ rhetoric. I must be more British than I thought.

But there were some really amazingly practical and useful tips for anyone who wants to do anything on the internet. I’ve told everyone concerned that my plan was to steal their ideas, change a couple of words, and then pass it off to musicians as my own knowledge.

And I have pages and pages of notes - some of it brain-bending stuff, and hardly any of it remotely geeky.

Apparently, in order to be able to blog effectively - you have to go outside and experience the world so you have something worth talking about. How counter-intuitive is that?

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