Over the Easter weekend I’ve been preparing, off and on, a slide presentation as a framework for a workshop I’m doing a couple of weeks from now on corporate blogging. The occasion is the annual Australian meetings and events industry conference, to be held just up the road from where I live, on Australia’s Gold Coast.

I’ve done a version of this presentation before, but with a tighter timeframe than the forty five minutes I’ve been allocated. It’s still too short for all I’d like to cover, but it’s a good opportunity to get the word out about business blogging.

It’s been a surprise for me that it has not been easy to find a range of blogs from the meetings and events industry.

I would have thought there would be quite a lot of blogs from the industry and with an industry point of view, for example blogs relating to conference organising. An interesting one, which has a strong position in the Google rankings for ‘meetings industry blogs’ is MiSoapbox  - nominating itself as ‘the event planning blog’. The About screen advises that

MiSoapbox is a daily digest of professional observations and informal industry discussion created by the editorial teams of Successful Meetings and MeetingNews.

So it’s a group blog: which may help to explain why, having enjoyed reading a couple of posts on display - New York is Full of Hidden Talent, for instance - I was frustrated by not being able to check archived posts. Whenever I clicked on one of the categories, I got a basically blank screen with the cursor hanging as if there were more to be downloaded - which there was, but it wasn’t coming any time soon, it seemed.

I’ve sent an email and I’m hoping they get the problem sorted out in the next couple of weeks, because I’ve mentioned the site in the presentation disc I sent off today to the MEA Conference organisers. (Happy to report that the problem has been sorted out - DW)