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January 30, 2007 First ever 'S60 Blogger Strategy Session' Posted by Phil Schwarzmann at 04:17 PM | Categories: Commentary

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...

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)

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Thanks Phil for organizing the whole thing!

> Since we're the first in the company to blog publicly,
> we're kinda the ones making the rules

It took me a while to realize that there's nobody in the command chain who could advise us how to do this right, but I think figuring it out yourself while doing it is kinda fun.

I'd say many people within Nokia (myself included) have been blogging for some time, even occasionally about Nokia. :) You guys might be the first doing it "officially" for Nokia. Wish that were my official job. :)

It is nice to see more people within Nokia blogging about Nokia. Makes me feel better about doing it.

Good point PhoneBoy, we're definitely not the first to be blogging about S60! Just the first to do it publicly within the company.

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How did you manage going forward without any strategy before this session? :)

But isnt it so that you are blogging for S60, not for Nokia? How many bloggers of other companies are blogging at S60.com?

How did you manage going forward without any strategy before this session? :)

Heh, well, the was the first time we all got together and talked in person.

But isnt it so that you are blogging for S60, not for Nokia? How many bloggers of other companies are blogging at S60.com?

Yes, we're blogging for S60. At the moment, all the bloggers work for S60/Nokia, but the "User Experience" blog was run by Idean Research.

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