BlogHer ’08 Sessions
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Session Grid
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8:30 AM
Ends: 9:00 AM
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Day One Breakfast
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9:00 AM
Ends: 9:15 AM
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Welcome to BlogHer '08
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9:15 AM
Ends: 10:00 AM
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"Speed Dating" for BlogHers
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Who We Are: Introversion, Blogging and BlogHer
Are you a free-spirited and totally open blogger who quakes at the notion of meeting people in person? Does your heart pound when you walk into a room populated by more than hal... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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What We Do: Taking Care of Business
If you're a blogger, and your blog contributes to your livelihood...whether through direct monetization or as a platform to get freelance and consulting work...then it's a busin... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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What We Believe: Top-notch Political Opinion Commentary
How can you communicate your political positions with the highest quality, and then get those opinions propagated...on TV or tha radio, in Op-Eds, blogs and even via blog commen... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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How We Communicate: FAQs for Beginning Bloggers
FAQs=Frequently Asked Questions, and we've lined up a team of expert bloggers who know how explain the basics across many blogging platforms, protocols and philosophies. Do you ... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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MommyBlogging: Is MommyBlogging Still a Radical Act?
Let me give you a bit of BlogHer history. Back in 2005, at our very first conference, Alice Bradley brought the house down by declaring "MommyBlogging is a radical act!" Of cour... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:55 AM
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Blogging Birds of a Feather Meet-Ups: Green/Social Change and Food/Entertaining
10:30-11:10AM: Green, Social Change and NPO/NGOs Led by BlogHer Social Change contributing editor Britt Bravo 11:15-11:55AM: Food, Cooking & Entertaining Led by BlogHer Foo... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:55 AM
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Room of Your Own: Entertainment Bloggers and Twenty-Something Bloggers
10:30-11:10AM: Entertainment Bloggers...film, TV, celebrity etc. Led by Melissa Silverstein from Women & Hollywood, who will be joined by BlogHer Television contributing editor... |
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11:45 AM
Ends: 12:45 PM
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Lunch
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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Who We Are: Race and Gender: What are the lessons of 2008
No, this actually isn't a re-hash of the Obama vs. Hillary debate. But certainly Election 2008 has made us all look at our own (and society's, and the media's etc. etc. ) attitu... |
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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What We Do: DIY Content Syndication and Promotion
There are now so many ways to get your word out, that every blogger has to make the decision: how far and wide do I want to distribute my content? Do I want it to be automated o... |
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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What We Believe: How To Take Names and Be Taken Seriously as a Political Blogger
Political Bloggers, like any bloggers, have a tremendous amount of freedom...to write about what they want, to be as partisan as they want, to shed the objectivity that traditio... |
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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How We Communicate: Why Bloggers (Even Non-Programmers) Benefit from Participating in Open Source Projects
Open source projects are a source of opportunity. Skill development, networking, career opportunities, confidence-building...you name it. A lot of us don't really know how these... |
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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MommyBlogging: Public Parenting & Privacy
While we will definitely talk about the basics of online security...and how to actually choose how much privacy you're willing to sacrifice...we're also going to talk about anot... |
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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Blogging Birds of a Feather Meet-Ups: Style/Fashion and Travel
12:45-1:25PM: Fashion, Beauty, Style & Shopping Led by BlogHer Fashion contributing editor Susan Wagner 1:30-2:10PM: Travel Led by BlogHer's former Travel contributing edit... |
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12:45 PM
Ends: 2:10 PM
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Room of Your Own: The "Mother Load" and MidlifeBloggers.com
12:45-1:25PM: The Mother Load: Blogging about caring for our loved ones Led by Melissa Massello from Care.com, this discussion will bring together the "Sandwich Generation" to ... |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:45 PM
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Who We Are: Blogging with a Global Perspective
We all talk a good game about how blogging can help us communicate across time and space...and certainly across national borders. But do you know how big your audience outside y... |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:45 PM
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What We Do: Writing Workshop
BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone will lead this workshop. |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:45 PM
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What We Believe: Two Concurrent Sessions: Progressives & Conservatives
Engaging those outside the political blogosphere in political discourse...and action> Is 2008 the year when every blogger is a proof point for the old battle cry that "the pe... |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:45 PM
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How We Communicate: Video Blogging
Featuring both an informational overview and four hands-on stations, this year's video blogging session will be both practical and personalized. Cathy Brooks will oversee a sess... |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:45 PM
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MommyBlogging: Mirrors: Ours, the Media's, Our Cultures' and Our Kids'
We blog about our own self-images a lot, there's no doubt about that. But a lot of us also blog about our kids’ self-images. Our kids, at some point, become aware of their own... |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:55 PM
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Blogging Birds of a Feather Meet-Ups: Personal Finance/Career and Sex & Relationships
2:30-3:10PM: Personal Finance and Career Led by BlogHer Business contributing editor Elana Centor 3:15-3:55PM: Sex & Relationships Led by BlogHer Sex & Relationships contri... |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:55 PM
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Room of Your Own: Funding & Incubation Opportunities and Women Entrepreneurs
2:30-3:10PM: Funding and incubation opportunities for women entrepreneurs Susan Mernit will lead this session reviewing the various opportunities women entrepreneurs have for g... |
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4:30 PM
Ends: 5:45 PM
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The BlogHer Community Keynote
The closing keynote for Day One of the conference will be live blog readings from the BlogHer community itself. The community is busily submitting their favorite posts, and we'l... |
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6:00 PM
Ends: 9:00 PM
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Welcome Reception
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