So last week I hosted our first ever "S60 Blogger Strategy Session". We met for an afternoon of info-sharing, brainstorming, and strategizing (I don't that's a real word) - then off to downtown Helsinki for some drinks and dinner. About 13 people in attendance, only two of our bloggers were unable to attend, which is honestly a miracle considering our bloggers are spread out over the globe.

I think the event was a huge success, we covered a lot of ground, we could have easily been there all day chit-chatting about blogs. 2006 was our first full year on the blogosphere and was an enormous success and I know we'll be continuing that success into 2007. Here was the agenda for the day...

13.30 - 13.45 | Introductions
13.45 - 14.30 | Blogging guidelines, standards, and etiquette
14.30 - 15.00 | Advanced MoveableType
15.00 - 15.05 | Break
15.05 - 15.45 | Plugins, improvements, and add-ons
15.45 - 16.30 | S60 Blogging strategy
16.45 - 17.30 | Taxi to downtown
17.30 - onwards | Dinner at Ravintola Helmi

Since we're the first in the company to blog publicly, we're kinda the ones making the rules. We spent the beginning of the session going over guidelines, writing tips, online etiquette, posting standards etc... In the next few weeks I'll be finalizing an official "S60 Blogger Guidebook". After that we went into advanced features of MoveableType. Then everyone complained when I only left five minutes for a break, so we extended it to fifteen.

On to plugins, improvements, add-ons and other ways to develop the blogs. The first half of 2007 should see a lot of cool new additions and features added to the blogs. Then with the time left over we all talked and discussed all sorts of blog-related issues. Finally we hopped in some cabs and went downtown for a nice dinner. All-in-all a really nice event and we'll be doing this every six months or so.

I had my camera with me and of course, completely forgot to take photos, here's a couple pics of the very end when everyone was leaving...

From left to right: Oren (of the S60 Multimedia Blog), Harri (Nokia blog guru), Tiia (in the blue, S60.com), Markus (grey shirt with glasses, Creating Carbide C++ blog), Jussi-Pekka (brown sweater, corporate communications & Web 2.0 guru), Neil (far right, Mobile Security blog)

The world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry, 3GSM World Congress, is coming February 12-15 to Barcelona. S60 will of course be well represented with our stand, device showcase, and demos. I'll be there blogging, taking pictures, recording interviews for the "Voice of S60", and working at the device showcase and S60.com demo.

So who's all gonna be there? Shoot me an e-mail if you're going, I'd love to meet up! (phillip dot schwarzmann at nokia dot com)

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