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ParentBlogging Conferences: Now With More Chest Hair

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Brian Reid in Uncategorized

I wrote last month that the world of blogging confabs — where blogger talk to each other, and marketer try to talk to bloggers — was opening up to dads with the launch of the Modern Media Man event in Atlanta this autumn. This was a big deal because though there are bunches of mommyblogger conferences (I can’t keep them all straight), fathers are generally on the wrong side of the velvet rope. (And even when they *do* get it, it tends to be a fish-out-of-water kind of thing.)

So I’m curious about the news that the Type A Mom Conference now has a dad track at their autumn event (in Asheville, NC). While it is tempting to whine about being splintered off into our own little ghetto, I’m actually tickled that the effort has been made.

The big question, though, is whether the dadblogger community is large enough, connected enough or conference-mad enough to really have an impact at multiple events. The M3 conference and the Type A conference will be separated by 2 weeks and 200 miles. Can both thrive?