After seeing the success of South by Southwest Interactive’s Community Blog, we decided to put together a similar blog for the upcoming 2007 Portland AAN convention.

The folks at sxswi did a great job - but we’re alt-people! We can do better.

So, in addition to the free-for all community blog postings about meetups, Portland adventures and othermessage-board-esque content, Portland2007.AAN.org will feature coverage of convention sessions, nightlife and industry musings from AAN members like yourself.

We’re also creating a print newsletter from the content on this blog, as a real-time example of creating content once and publishing it in multiple mediums.

If you’re reading this post, it’s likely that we’ve asked you to contribute a post regarding convention sessions and/or your thoughts to the blog during the AAN convention. If you’ve stumbled across this randomly, and would like to contribute, please let us know!

I’ve created some sample posts on this blog to illustrate the various ways folks can use the blog.

Please let me know if you have any questions - or ideas on improving what we’ve already started!

Sincerely,

LauraFries.com
Web Director, AAN