Introduction
Why have we started to organize the Les Blogs conference ?
A frustration. I have always been so sorry that there were not enough cool conferences around the Web generally in Europe. If you are European, you have to go often to the US to meet the key players and network with the movers and shakers. I am not saying there are none, but not enough, and there was no international event around blogs.
A new World is here
Don't you feel the rules and our world are changing ? Don't you feel changed by what many people call the Web 2.0 ? We believe as most of you that the way we work, the way we learn and teach, the way we interact with one another and more generally our expectations and relationships to other people, the institutions, the business world and politics are changing dramatically.
It is not only about blogging, it's about changing the way we think
What defines this new way of thinking and acting ? Difficult to say, let's try to define it together. I would say that transparency, openness and collaboration are the key values that drive this phenomenon. It is not only about blogging, not only about social software and other tools, it is much broader. Of course bloggers are at the forefront of this way of life: unformal, friendly, no powerpoint and no ties...
Let's define together these new values and understand :
1. How they challenge the corporate world
2. How they change the media landscape
3. How they bring more democracy in politics
4. How education evolves
5. What are the tools used and how we can all best benefit from them
6. Where we are going in the near and longer term future
If the first edition of Les Blogs was a successful gathering of 250+ people from 25 Countries, we would like that the second edition on December 5th and 6th translates into something more concrete.
Of course we will be there to meet each other, have fun and business, but we could also build together a collaborative document on a wiki that helps everybody better understand what's happening and help change a bit our World using these tools in the best possible way.
Everybody is welcome to join and just listen and network, however as I see that hundreds of posts were posted during the first edition and more than 2000 pictures posted on Flickr, we could may be also use our willingness and energy to share with everybody to try to build something together, as we started on the European Blogosphere Wiki.
If you wish, you can enter the conversation and contribute to the Les Blogs companion wiki it is just starting.
The idea is to go through these six questions together both speakers and participants. Every participant can contribute to the panel before the session on the panel to help build the conversation.
After brief introductions, our panelists will engage with the moderator, each other and the audience to discuss the topics on the wiki.
Welcome to this second edition of Les Blogs.
Loïc Le Meur, Guillaume du Gardier and Elisabeth Albrycht
As Senior Business Development Manager of Lifeblog team in Nokia Multimedia, Jian Ni is responsible for creating new business opportunities and developing strategic partnership around Nokia Lifeblog application and services. 
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