Presenting at Community 2.0 in Las Vegas on Wednesday

I’m headed to Las Vegas tomorrow night for the annual Community 2.0 Conference.

The focus of the conference is how developing a community can significantly impact your business’ bottom line. Blogs, social networking, community strategies, reputation systems, and customer engagement are among the many topics to be covered.

Being a lawyer, overseeing a network of lawyer blogs, and soon to be publishing a legal new media site, I’m addressing some of the legal issues of communities and social networking.

It’s frankly an honor to get to present at this conference. Past speakers include author and consultant, John Hagel, Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist, and author and consultant Patricia Seybold.

This year looks like a great group of presenters including Shel Israel, Co-author of Naked Conversations–How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, Charlene Li, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, and Dave Weinberger, a pioneer in blogging and author of Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder & Co-author of ‘The Cluetrain Manifesto.’

Getting to non-legal technology conferences is critical for me. Nothing against legal conferences. But the future lies closer to what those outside the law are evangelizing. Plus I get to spend time with some of the thought leaders who I have followed and networked with through the blogosphere.

I’ll blog direct from conference sessions to share what I’m learning. And if we’re lucky, we’ll pick up some nice interviews for more live blogging.