Written by Amy Tenderich at DiabetesMine in July 2009 It's difficult to describe the feeling of being physically in the same room with 30 people with whom you have a longstanding online intimacy, seeing their faces and hearing their voices in the flesh. With the likes of David Mendosa , Jeff Hitchcock , Manny Hernandez , Scott King , Kerri Sparling , Fran Carpentier , Scott Johnson , Kelly Kunik and a whole mess of other bloggers and heads of online D-communities gathered, it felt something like a meeting of the mafia bosses — in a good way. Meaning all these "influencers" were at last sitting under one roof, heatedly debating the future of our respective/collective turf. And here we all are: As I have shared leading up to this event, Roche had reached out to me to help organize this first-of-its-kind event bringing patient advocates together from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC). We bloggers and social network aficionados have been calling for the me...
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