First-ever Vlogger Fair coming to Seattle
Apr 5, 2013, 1:17 PM | Updated: Apr 10, 2013, 4:55 pm
If “Vlogging” sounds mysterious to you, attending a new event in Seattle would be a fantastic introduction.
The first-ever Vlogger Fair is coming to Seattle June 8-9. Prolific Seattle vlogger and Lockergnome CEO Chris Pirillo is hosting the event.
“The idea is, I’m bringing in all the top YouTube vloggers to Seattle,” Pirillo tells Jenni Hogan on her Next Big Thing Podcast. “It is happening.”
Vlogging, or video blogging, is a form of blog made up of video media. Pirillo, for example, does daily vlog entries cataloging moments in his day. Here’s an example:
He’s even turned Next Big Thing host Jenni Hogan on to vlogging. She’s on vlog number 14 and still learning.
“I’m still a vlogger on training wheels, but I feel like there’s a power there,” says Hogan. “It’s like when I got onto Twitter four years ago. I felt something big. I didn’t know what I was doing. I describe it as jumping into a swimming pool, deep end. You don’t know how to swim, but you’ve got these floaties on your arms, and Chris, you’re one of my floaties.
Pirillo agrees the best way to make waves online is just to jump in and get going. He says learning from what others are doing and collaborating online is a good way to develop your vlogging skills.
“People ask, ‘Well how do you get ahead online?’ Well you collaborate. It’s not a competition. It’s a competition for attention, but you collaborate by connecting with one another, so the best way to do it is getting together,” says Pirillo.
That spirit of collaboration is precisely why Pirillo wanted to launch Vlogger Fair. “It’s that collaborative process that I’m really trying to enable.”
Featured vloggers at the event include Shay Carl, Charles Trippy, iJustine, GabyGaby, BFvsGF and more. These are some experts in the field of vlogging. But the event is for everyone, vloggers, viewers, newbies, and anyone with an interest.
“I want everybody who’s ever watched a YouTube video to come to this event,” says Pirillo.
He recommends pre-registering. Tickets can be purchased for $29. There’s also a VIP package that will include software and hardware goodies, in addition to admission privileges, for $99.
Learn more about the event to be held June 8-9 at Terminal 5 in Seattle at vloggerfair.com.
Subscribe to Jenni Hogan’s Next Big Thing podcast available weekly at KIRORadio.com.
