Ivy and Kat

Originally uploaded by jicarney.

Well, BarCamp was great fun, and informative to boot. Here we see Ivy and Kat leading a session about Music City Bloggers in the smaller, less formal venue at Cafe Coco, behind the Exit/In.

I was delighted to meet Newscoma in person, and found her just as delightful as in our many online conversations. We both work for small-town newspapers and sometimes vent about it to each other. Methoblogger Gavin Richardson and his lovely bride Erin were there (Gavin liveblogged it). I met Hutchmo briefly, and, like an idiot, completely forgot to thank him for his help in getting our Times-Gazette bloggers added to the Music City Bloggers blogroll.

I also met Rachel of Women’s Health News, and spoke briefly with the famous WonderDawg.

I got some good insights on blogging to pass along to our T-G bloggers, especially from Brittney Gilbert‘s presentation, and I think I’m going to turn a few of the presentations about corporate blogging into a news story for the T-G.

I did not stay until the bitter end or for the live music (which is going on as I write this, back home in Shelbyville), because I have to preach tomorrow. But I had a great time.

More photos are here.

UPDATE: I knew I was going to forget and leave someone out: Squirrel Queen.