Join us for the BIF-2 Blogjam!

In conjunction with next week's BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit, please join us at the BIF-2 Blogjam where an amazing group of bloggers will be posting live throughout the day on Wednesday, October 4th and Thursday, October 5th.

BIF-2 brings together innovators from across the public and private sectors to share stories about creating change and driving innovation. BIF media partner Corante will be hosting the blogjam through its Innovation Hub and guest bloggers include:

Renee Hopkins Callahan who is the editor of Corante's Innovation Hub, Renee authored one of the Web's first blogs on innovation at IdeaFlow, and is the Director of Innovation Services at Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas. She is a former journalist who worked as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and was managing editor of D, the Dallas city magazine. Renee blogs at Idea Flow.

Jeff De Cagna who is chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, the association community’s leading voice for innovation. Jeff has more than a decade of service to regional, national and international associations in the Washington, DC area, including the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives and the Special Libraries Association. Jeff blogs at Principled Innovation.

Francois Gossieaux who is president of Corante, Inc. Prior to Corante he was consulting on marketing and new media, involved with BlogBridge, and the founder of Synopia, Inc. Francois has a long history with online media –having implemented an Intranet for a large multinational in the early 90's; and being the organizer of the first large scale virtual event–InterAct'96–with Time Magazine and Infoworld. He has used blogs for grassroots political and environmental activities, and is currently blogging at Emergence Marketing.

Steve Hardy who is the founder of Creative Generalist, a popular weblog for curious divergent thinkers. He is formerly the Business Director of 2004's Magazine of the Year Maisonneuve (eclectic curiosity) and is currently a creative producer of wireless media at Airborne Entertainment. Steve blogs at Creative Generalist.

Lois Kelly who left big agencies eight years ago to found Foghound, a strategic communications consulting firm. The author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Conversational Marketing, Lois believes the root cause of many business and marketing problems is communications. She’s dedicated her career to helping companies talk about their companies and issues in ways that get people to buy, believe and change, no matter how complex the topic or how competitive the market. Lois blogs at Bloghound .

Jeffrey Phillips who is VP of Sales and Marketing for OVO, a firm dedicated to helping its customers create sustainable, repeatable innovation processes, and delivering software applications to enable the processes. He writes several blogs and speaks and writes about innovation and workgroup productivity. Jeffrey’s blog is Innovate on Purpose.

Boris Pluskowsk who is a director at Imaginatik Research, a branch of Imaginatik, the Ideas Management software company, founded in the UK in 1994. Boris is a recognized expert in knowledge and innovation management, with over 9 years of experience working with and within companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Seagram, The Inter-American Development Bank, Cadbury Adams, CapitalOne, NCR and IBM. Boris’ blog is Corporate Innovation.

Joyce Wycoff who is co-founder of the Innovation Network, an organization focused on helping organizations develop a core competency of innovation. Joyce has a broad background in management and marketing and a deep understanding of organizational innovation. She is the author of several books on innovation and creativity, including Mindmapping, Transformation Thinking and To Do … Doing … Done! Joyce blogs at Heads Up! on Organizational Innovation.

The BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit will be hosted by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg and architect, author, and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman. The Summit format—more conversation than conference—is unique. Presenters have only fifteen minutes on stage to share personal reflections on how they created innovation or catalyzed change. Groups of storytellers are blocked around generous breaks that give participants and storytellers ample opportunity to interact. Most importantly, storytellers fully participate in the entire event as members of the audience. (Head here for our complete list of storytellers.)

In addition to the real-time blogjam taking place, the Business Innovation Factory will also be capturing the summit experience on film and BIF-2 storyteller vignettes will be available immediately following the summit at www.businessinnovationfactory.com.

I'd like to thank our media partner Corante for agreeing to host this incredible gathering of bloggers and look forward to connecting with everyone for what promises to be a very cool event!