Blogging from a Panel About Blogging

So I am in Miami at the annual Rail~Volution conference. This afternoon I am on a panel with Kathy Albert, Sound Transit; Effie Stallsmith, Federal Transportation Administration; Phillip Jacques, URS Corporation; Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America & The Overhead Wire.

I’ve set up wireless in the room for this event. We are getting set up right now. Come back at 2pm St. Louis time for more. The following items are in reverse order, the latest is right below here.

5:30pm – I’m back.  Had to close up shop at the end of our presentation.  Had a good veggie burger over on Washington Ave @ 14th Street.  I’m back in my hotel room about to head over to the beach.  There are a few clouds out but everyone is headed to the beach.  So, I’m grabbing the lawn chair out of room closet and heading across the street.

2:46pm – Showing YouTube video on RSS Feeds, highly recommended.

2:45pm – Jeff also has a transit aggregator, called City Transit Advocates.

2:43pm – Jeff talking about his blog, The Overhead Wire.

2:40pm – Video he created added to YouTube. Funny part, they can’t see it from work.

2:35pm – Showing image of a proposed train station added to Google Earth.

2:33pm – Great visuals, give the public a great perspective on what the completed project might look like.

2:30pm – Phillip Jacques showing great slide show, created mostly from Sketch-Up.

2:28pm – MySpace.com is a great option for transit agencies. San Antonio has a great site on MySpace.

2:25pm – PlaceMatters.com is a website mentioned by Effie. Very interesting site.

2:18pm – Effie is showing different transit sites from all over the country, with some of the options for showing basic information. Many are using video and real time data relative to “boring” stats.

2:10pm – Effie is talking about visualization, a requirement of federal law. Basically this is a way of talking about visual communication — being able to see what is proposed. Obviously, it would be hard to communicate without visual clues.

2:00pm – Kathy Albert is getting the event started. Kathy is introducing the topic and the panelists.

1:25pm – We’ve gone through our roles and we are ready to go. Effie will be first.