On Saturday (May 8), I joined over 500 blogging and social-media enthusiasts attending the Northern Voice conference in Vancouver.

It was the second day of the sixth annual event, which took place at the University of British Columbia.

The topics of the sessions ranged from blogging about parenting to social media and disability, and each talk I attended delivered an interesting presentation followed by an engaging discussion.

What follows is a look in pictures at my day at the conference.

Many participants have labelled their tweets and photos with the official conference tags, so you can read about and see more from Northern Voice on Twitter and Flickr.

You can follow Stephen Hui on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenhui.

Recent interviews with Northern Voice speakers:
Taylor Lukacin, UBC student blogger
Harriet Fancott, adoptive mother and blogger
Kimli Welsh, DeliciousJuice.com
Kim Werker, blogger and crafter
Monica Hamburg, social media evangelist

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Technologist and marketer Darren Barefoot introduces the conference he helped found.

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Blogger Raul Pacheco of Hummingbird604.com asks a question of the day's keynote speaker.

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Keynote speaker Chris Messina, the inventor of hashtags, tells attendees why it's important to keep the Web open.

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Lisa Johnson, a reporter for CBC News Vancouver, talks about social media and journalism.

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Attendees pack a room for a session called "A Four-Letter Word Called Sex".

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Danielle Sipple, Steffani Cameron, and Monica Hamburg talk about how the Internet is changing how we think about sex.

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Blogger Steffani Cameron of The Cunting Linguist encourages people to be honest about their sexual desires on-line.

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Danielle Sipple of FemmeRemix says amateur porn on sites like XTube and YouPorn shows people can have sex any way they want.

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Andrew Lavigne speaks about the challenges of making With Glowing Hearts, a documentary about the Olympics and social media.

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Photographer and blogger John Biehler took a month off work to do citizen journalism during the Winter Games.