Oh good, I was hoping you would write about this. Are you going to write about the other panelists' recommendations or topics discussed on other panels? What did Macaulay have to say? I'm hoping someone covers the whole thing for those of us who couldn't be there!

Doug,
Thank you for speaking on the panel, I enjoyed the influx of innovative ideas. In response to the questions about YouTube objecting to people reposting videos... I don't think that it is an issue with YouTube, otherwise they wouldn't offer embed codes on their site with each video. The only way it may be objectional is if the videographer didn't have permission to record, or if the rights were not in place to use the music with that video.

I am working now on creating a write up for all the notes I took at the conference. I truly feel that the internet is the future of all print media. The association could have been a little more receptive to this possibility.
-Amber

It was good to see you at the conference, Doug. And great to hear your panel, of course. Too bad there wasn't more time to explore critics' options in using the internet. They could devote a whole conference just to that, haha.

Tonya, I'll be writing about the whole thing...hopefully soon.

Taylor, it was good to see you at DCA conference as well. Yes, it would have definitely have helped to have had more time. At least for you and the other bloggers in the audience to talk about your own dance blogging.

Tonya, here's link to one of Taylor's overviews of sessions at conference.

The conference was very worthwhile. Hopefully next year there will be a bigger representation of bloggers.

Based on the questions during your session, many critics do not have the most basic knowledge about using the internet for publishing and blogging (for example the idea that you would have to ask permission to link to another site seemed pretty widespread).

I think your session started a good dialogue and definitely raised some issues as to the future of the profession. As I told you after the panel, I thought they tried to cram too much into one panel. Having videographers on the same panel as you made the discussion choppy at times, by no fault of your own. Hopefully next year DCA can consider having a workshop on blogging basics, and separate panels on various technological aspects of the professions.

PS. I've now got a writeup of the Presenting Dance Across America up on my blog. I'd be curious to get people's thoughts on that discussion. It was so interesting.

Hi Amber,

Good to meet you at DCA conference and I look forward to your write-up.

What might have been helpful is if we could have done a live Internet demonstration.

Maybe at next conference, we can have more of a hands-on session that way we can deal with everything in very concrete terms. Some things seem more confusing when we deal with them in the abstract. But once dance writers, in this instance, see how YouTube, blogs and other tools and applications work, everything, I think, will make much more sense.

Hi Maria,

I linked to your story about Ballet Across America program.

To follow-up my comment to Amber, you're definitely right. A basic introduction to the Internet and video would definitely benefit everybody. I think that once many dance critics see what the possibilities are that they will be able to take advantage of blogs, videos and other tools very quickly.