This morning I’m headed to Champlain College for the Snelling Center’s day-long symposium, “Building Community in a ‘Connected Age'”.

I agreed to be on the organizing committee months ago, when I was feeling optimistic about the amount of time I have for anything that’s not related to my job or my growing family. But of course I got swamped with work as usual, and I haven’t been reminding everyone that I’m going to be live blogging the event today on Blurt. So expect a flurry of posts about panels and keynotes and such.

Bill Simmon will also be live blogging at Candleblog.

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