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Advice for Conference Organisers

If you’re running a blogging or social-media related conference, offer free WiFi and power at the desks. Otherwise, you’re crippling the ability of people to blog about your conference – and thus do your publicity for you.

Yes, I’m at Blogging4Business in London and, after coughing up £20 for WiFi access, I’m finally online.

You can see liveblogging from this morning, including the panel I was on, at the Blogging4Business blog.

The Technorati tag “blogging4business” is worth following, too.

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