Here’s a list of the sessions I attended at the 2009 BlogWorld and New Media Expo (I’ll link these titles to blog posts with what I learned from each session as I finish them):

Thursday

• Opening Day Keynote With Laura Fitton (video)
• B2B Social Media
• Why Blogs Are Your #1 Search Marketing Tool
• Luncheon Keynote With Kara Swisher and Scott Monty
• Lifestreaming and Your Business
• Keynote Address: Sponsored Conversations
• Get HUGE for Practically Nothing: Lessons From I Can Has Cheezburger and FAIL Blog
• Keynote Address With Chris Brogan (video)

Friday

• The State of the Blogosphere (video)
• The Death and Rebirth of Journalism (video)
• How Social Media is Changing the Definition of News
• Fitting It All In: Time Management Strategies for Social Media Management
• How to Make Your Blog Read Better
• Social Media: The Bad and Ugly
• Keynote Address With Leo Laporte (video)

Saturday

• Keynote Address: The New Celebrity
• Where Are We Going? The Future of Social Media and Business
• Digital Symbiosis: How Bloggers Can Benefit From PR and Vice-Versa
• Small Business, Big Impact
• Closing Keynote Show With Guy Kawasaki, Kevin Pollak, Chad Vader and Jenny the Bloggess (video)

I went to BlogWorld last week, but my laptop broke down while I was there and it’s going to take me a while to transfer all my notes from my old-school notepad to my blog. You’ll see something soon.

If you can’t wait that long, head on over to MichealFoley.com. I posted some random photos from the event there.

Starting over with an empty canvas. (Photo by pmo)

As far as this blog goes, I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for quite a while. I’ve been toying and tinkering with ideas a little too long and I haven’t posted any meaningful content for more than a year.

I kept telling myself that I needed to keep watching, learning and stealing from the best bloggers. I kept telling myself that I needed a water-tight strategy and execution plan before putting my content out into the world.

Well, I was wrong. I just needed a half-baked strategy and a fearless, flexible attitude toward the blog. I need to participate in the blogging community more, which means more reading and commenting on other blogs.

And most of all, I need to crank out good content on a regular basis.

The conclusion I’ve come to is that if I try to plan everything so perfectly, I’ll always be in planning mode and never in execution mode. Now I’m teaching myself to live in a perpetual mode of half-planning and half-execution.

Hopefully it doesn’t come across as totally half-assed.

Here’s the “plan” so far:

I’ve set up several platforms for posting content about topics that matter most to me: media, technology, communications, politics, hyper-local news from my neighborhood, restaurant reviews and work stuff. Here’s the breakdown:

• foleymo: Media (especially social media), technology and communications.
• The Torch Times: Libertarian politics.
• Seattle PostGlobe: Hyper-local news and events.
• Yelp: Food and restaurant reviews.
• Thinkers and Doers: Work stuff.
• MichealFoley.com: An aggregator to repost blog content from all these sites, as well as content from other web tools such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, 12Seconds, etc.

Of course, I reserve the right to alter or abolish this strategy at any time for any reason. Use as directed. Results may vary.