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Microsoft Office Live Workspace blog was recently launched in early November of this year. It aims in providing readers with Office Live Workspace latest news and updates, existing features, support services, new improvements and upgrades and the chance to be acquainted with the OLW team. Currently, it has set up 2 blogs – Workspace Team Blog and Team Video Instructions. Hollywood actress Glenn Close is blogging a fresh dog site named Fetchdog. The site was inspired by a vision of a group of people who obviously love and were crazy about dogs. If Glenn Close can sustain her blogging strategy then it could be big for her.
And for those who wants to meet co-bloggers and other social media and technology enthusiasts get ready for non-stop events this month until next year.

BarCamp is carrying out various events in USA and Canada. Events details are already set for this month until December and February of next year. BadCamp is an informal assembly that started from people’s longing to share and learn new ideas in an open atmosphere.

For those interested in blogging, social networking, podcasting, social media or just somebody who is curious and willing to learn new media tools then PodCamp is an event you should not miss. PodCamp is generally a free BarCamp-style neighborhood. Bloggers, podcasters, social networkers, YouTubers, and other new media aficionados are all invited to upcoming PodCamps: November 25, 2007 (Theme: Welcome to podcasting and beyond), January 18, 2008 @ MacWorld SF, and on January 26, 2008 (in planning) - Salt Lake City, Utah. For a complete list of schedule visit their site at http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/.

Another anticipated event for bloggers is the BlogTalk 2008 to be held in Cork, Ireland on March 3-4 of 2008. For more details visit this site http://2008.blogtalk.net/.

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is preparing its 2nd meeting on March 31 – April 2 of 2008 to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA. Attendees are expected to experience high quality event. It will bring together researchers, academic practitioners and other professionals on the field of social media. Sounds interesting? then check out their website to see more http://www.icwsm.org/2008/index.shtml.