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04.23.05 11:40 AM
there's a blogher conference going on
July 30 in Santa Clara, CA
BlogHer is a network for women bloggers to draw on for exposure, education, and community. By holding a day-long conference on July 30, 2005, and establishing an online hub, BlogHer is initiating an opportunity for greater visibility, learning and success for individual women bloggers and for the community of bloggers as a whole.
www.blogher.org/ for more info
Specifically I'd be interested in discussing or hearing about some of the topics that have come up many times w/in my blogfam or here on my own diary (but I'd probably have to propose a talk myself for it to be heard)
My interests would be:
1. The feminist voice in hip hop blogging - where are the feminist hip hop bloggers? what do they have to say? how do they negotiate being feminist with loving hip-hop?
2. An idenity blogging talk that of course includes discussion around race somehow - you know, being a black female blogger - remember where da ladies at? stand up.
3. A topic often discussed, but I don't think I've ever heard full on from a woman's perspective is how journalism and blogging are informing one another. You know the usual journalism .vs. blogging, but with different insight.
4. Music blogging also would be different coming from women, b/c I think they way women would approach enacting with the technologies would be different - hmm, so I guess I'd actually be more interested in the technologies for music blogging as well as the technologies for creting the music. (I've experienced my own little experiments with this in the past.
5. I'd also be interested in learning about turning a blog into your career, for instance I ran across YPulse: Media for the Next Genertaion the other day, and it appears as if this woman has totally turned this into her livelihood. Beyond the google ads, blog ads, industry brains, etc.
(I guess now is as good a time as any for me to share this article : In Search of the Blog Economy that I read in econtent back in Feb.
I'm sure I could come up with more ideas, but that's it for now.
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Hey Lynne, great ideas. Let me tell you where we are already planning sessions that fit with your ideas, and let me suggest how you could get some of your other ideas incorporated:
Your suggestion #2: We do have a sort of identity/"think tank" track planned, with sessions on getting "naked" in your blog (emotionally speaking) how to deal with it (tactically and emotionally) when you get massive negativity blown back at you and on how blogging leads to globalization - in a good way. While so far we don't have a race-specific angle, we are talking to a diverse set of women to be panelists, diverse in race, orientation, experience etc. So I imagine race will be a part of the mix. Here are two threads we've started to explore this track:
http://www.blogher.org/2005/04/flame_blame_sha.html
http://www.blogher.org/2005/04/how_to_be_naked.html
Your suggestion #3: We are going to have a panel on journalism. And like you said, we don't want to do the usual blogging vs. journalism angle...so old and tired, no? The current angle is about "citizen journalism" - discussing both the opportunities, but also whether there are responsibilities.
Your suggestion #4: We are planning a technical session on audio/videocasting. This would be a session I would need to attend, not lead, so I really can't say much more about it :) Your angle of creating the music before 'casting it is one I don't think we had thought of (but might be outside our scope for a single-day conference.)
Your suggestion #5: We have a session entitled "$$ and Sense" which will explore ideas on how to monetize or just leverage your blog...beyond Google AdSense. Anastasia, who does YPulse, probably makes money from her blog, but she also leveraged it into a gig with CurrentTV. I am paid for some of the bloggy work I do, but have also gotten off-blog gigs by using my blogs as records of expertise and work. Here's the thread on this topic:
http://www.blogher.org/2005/04/blogher_session.html
Now, your suggestion #1 is a pretty fascinating one that isn't currently on the drawing board. But there could be a place for it in the "Room of your Own" that we're setting aside. Yes, we're setting aside a room with full power/WiFi/Audio/tables and chairs and coffee and letting people create their own sessions. We hope to capture what goes down in that room and let it help us plan future events: help us see what we were missing. Here's a thread on that concept:
http://www.blogher.org/2005/04/room_of_your_ow.html
Already we have interested in a Moblogging session and a MommyBlogging session...why not a HipHopBlogging session?
Sorry for this loooong comment, but your post was so full of ideas that I wanted to respond...and to encourage you to come post more thoughts on the various lively conversations happening in the threads over at the www.Blogher.org site.
posted by Elisa Camahort | April 24, 2005 11:13 AM #
Love what you have to say here and can't wait to meet you -- I mean literally -- can we meet before July 30? Email me.
Did you read my post on 50 Cent being part of the blues tradition of Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson? I'm crazy for hip-hop and I really like your question above about how one can justify feminism and loving hip-hop.
posted by Halley Suitt | June 15, 2005 4:39 AM #