We’re making blogging at conference easy this year, with a dedicated area for you to blog with free internet access.

Inside the conference hall you can login and update your blog from the centre of the action – how blogging should be - at stands S47 and S48 in the Solent Hall.

There are also a number of internet cafes in Bournemouth, some of which are conveniently located near the BIC.

Dorothy's Internet Café at 20 St Michael’s Rd runs through the west of the main site, while The Cyber Place at 25 St Peter’s Rd can be found by following Westover road to the Quadrant Centre, turning right, and then following the road for about 400m.

A little further afield, the Charminster Road also has a good number of internet cafes, and there is Tundun internet café at 551 Christchurch Road.

Labour: Central

Labour: Central will be launched over conference – a new tool for Labour bloggers, to help people find and share your writing with other Labour supporters. Anyone can post links to stories they want to share, for the whole community to see what’s hot at the moment.

It joins the established Bloggers4Labour and LabourHome.org sites - drawing together Labour supporters on the internet and publicising blogs for the Labour community.

Blogging is free and open to anyone who can get access to the internet: If you’ve got something to say, and want to start a blog, there are a number of different services you can use to share your writing with the world – and if you’re going to conference, what better time to start than now?

Want to start writing your own blog?

Labour Party members can make use of their MpURL service to blog and comment with other Labour supporters - simply log on to your personal MpURL site on labour.org.uk to get your point across.

Alternatively there are a number of web-hosted blog providers, offering an extensive collection of personalised gismos to jazz-up your own blog.

Wordpress.com has a good set of features with thousands of custom themes to make your blog look as you want it to; spam protection, rich text editing, and different levels of privacy for individual posts – so some can be public, and some shared with only close friends.

Blogger.com is another hosted service run by Google, offering very quick and easy free blogging. It doesn’t have as many features as wordpress, but can be a good choice if you want a very simple service.