Based on comments around the web on this issue, it seems that following the offer from the BC Liberals, the Northern Voice committee asked some of the other parties if they were interested too, and they were not. I'm not sure if that's the reason, but there you go.

Based on comments around the web on this issue, it seems that following the offer from the BC Liberals, the Northern Voice committee asked some of the other parties if they were interested too, and they were not. I'm not sure if that's the reason, but there you go.

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(I help administer the site on behalf of NV.)

Here's an interesting test .. would the organizing committee have accepted equal sponsorships from both the BC Liberals and the BC NDP, and if so, would each party respectively have been comfortable as co-sponsor ? It would be interesting to find out the answers to those two questions.

Here's an interesting test .. would the organizing committee have accepted equal sponsorships from both the BC Liberals and the BC NDP, and if so, would each party respectively have been comfortable as co-sponsor ? It would be interesting to find out the answers to those two questions.

I also see the link to the Eventbrite listing to purchase tickets for the party right in the post; that is something I looked for, and did not find, earlier. Now that it appears to be sold out, there's hardly any point, is there? The link to purchase tickets was sent out on Twitter, I understand, several days ago and not posted in the blog announcement for several days, thus filtering who would get the information in time to act on it and who would not.

These are social media choices that may perhaps be more telling than the committee would like. While a lot of people are on Twitter, not everyone is, and it's specifically a blogging conference, not a social media one. Perhaps the priorities in this case were backwards.

And, as I said on the NV site, perhaps the solution to this issue is to avoid having parties so extravagant they cannot be staged without the financial support of controversial organizations. They've managed it every year up till now, and last year even managed to host a party big enough for everyone instead of one with the capacity of less than half of attendees.

I also see the link to the Eventbrite listing to purchase tickets for the party right in the post; that is something I looked for, and did not find, earlier. Now that it appears to be sold out, there's hardly any point, is there? The link to purchase tickets was sent out on Twitter, I understand, several days ago and not posted in the blog announcement for several days, thus filtering who would get the information in time to act on it and who would not.

These are social media choices that may perhaps be more telling than the committee would like. While a lot of people are on Twitter, not everyone is, and it's specifically a blogging conference, not a social media one. Perhaps the priorities in this case were backwards.

And, as I said on the NV site, perhaps the solution to this issue is to avoid having parties so extravagant they cannot be staged without the financial support of controversial organizations. They've managed it every year up till now, and last year even managed to host a party big enough for everyone instead of one with the capacity of less than half of attendees.

Thanks for blogging about this. Here's the organizing committee's take on the situation:

http://2009.northernvoice.ca/blog/reactions-spons…

TTFN
Travis

Thanks for blogging about this. Here's the organizing committee's take on the situation:

<a href="http://2009.northernvoice.ca/blog/reactions-sponsorships” target=”_blank”>http://2009.northernvoice.ca/blog/reactions-spons…

TTFN
Travis