Mark your calendar. Tuesday, August 1. DACS General Meeting. Danbury Auditorium.
Mike Kaltschnee.

Mike will be giving an updated talk on last years successful introduction to blogging presentation. He will discuss both blogging and micropublishing, including how to start a blog, why it's important for personal, business and political reasons, and much more. He will even discuss the new phenomena of podcasting.

Mike currently runs several popular blogs, has been featured in major magazines and newspapers, and has more than 250,000 readers. His main blog is HackingNetflix.com and he just interviewed Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

Web logs or BLOGS are one of the latest crazes sweeping the Internet. They are easy to set up and allow anyone who is interested to become an online publisher. They can be used to write on any topics from personal to international. Some are used as simple diaries while others are used by professional writers and journalists. Corporations have them and even some CEOs are using them to communicate with their share holders.

There are more than 8 million Web logs and over 2,000 stories are being posted each minute. Blogs have become a journalistic force, bringing down Trent Lott and Dan Rather, and providing unique coverage of the recent Tsunami disaster.

Over the last several years many tools and websites have appeared to make blogs easy to set up and maintain. You can add pictures to blogs and even create entries by just sending an email from your computer, cell phone, or PDA.

Is this a new form of journalism or the latest personal Website fad?

This question and many more will be answered at the August meeting by Mike Kaltschnee, a DACS member, who has given many excellent presentations in the past. Mike will share his experience and demonstrate the tools and techniques to help you understand the potential of this exciting new technology.

DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with registration and casual networking. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a general question and answer period (Ask DACS) and a discussion of what’s new in technology followed by a short break. The featured evening presentation begins at 8:00.

As a reminder, our General Meetings are free and open to the public so invite anyone you know who would be interested in this topic.