We’re here to help you get geeky – two levels of geeky! BlogHer has planned Beginner and Advanced tutorials for attendees, which will run concurrently with other sessions in our conference agenda. And if you still need help afterward, most speakers are more than happy to hold some “office hours” following each tutorial for a little one-on-one action. Come learn new tech tricks in the Beginner Lab, like Stats for Word Nerds or Beginning SEO, or geek out in the Advanced Lab discussing a variety of content management systems or sharing your hacks, mashups and other rebel coding.

Below are the basic session listings for the Geek Lab, click here to read more complete descriptions of each session. Start planning your tech experience at BlogHer ’09…Now!!

GEEK LAB, FRIDAY, JULY 24TH
BEGINNER

• Geek Lab Beginner 1a: Blogging Basics 101 - Getting Started (10:30-11:00AM)
  Featuring Denise Tanton
• Geek Lab Beginner 1b: Wordpress for Beginners (11:15-11:45AM)
  Featuring Roni Noone
• Geek Lab Beginner 2a: HTML for Bloggers (1:15-1:45PM)
  Featuring Nelly Yusupova
• Geek Lab Beginner 2b: You and Your CSS Style Sheet (2:00-2:30PM)
  Featuring Virginia DeBolt
• Geek Lab Beginner 3a: Make Your Blog More Accessible (2:45-3:15PM)
  Featuring Skye Kilaen
• Geek Lab Beginner 3b: Photoshop - Basic Tips and Tricks to Get You Started (3:30-4:00PM)
  Featuring Jan Kabili

ADVANCED

• Geek Lab Advanced 1a: CMS Pros and Cons - Discuss Your Development Experiences (10:30-11:00AM)
  Featuring Sarah Dopp
• Geek Lab Advanced 1b: CMS Tool #1 - Wordpress (11:15-11:45AM)
  Featuring Shazia Mistry
• Geek Lab Advanced 2a: CMS Tool #2 - Typepad (1:15-1:45PM)
  Featuring Stephanie Cockerl
• Geek Lab Advanced 2b: CMS Tool #3 - Expression Engine (2:00-2:30PM)
  Featuring Mrs. Flinger
• Geek Lab Advanced 3a: CMS Tool #4 - Dreamwidth (2:45-3:15PM)
  Featuring Liz Henry
• Geek Lab Advanced 3b: CMS Tool #5 - Squarespace (3:30-4:00PM)
  Featuring Krystyn Heide

GEEK LAB, SATURDAY, JULY 25TH
BEGINNER

• Geek Lab Beginner 1a: Stats for Word Nerds (10:45-11:15AM)
  Featuring Alanna Kellogg
• Geek Lab Beginner 1b: Twitter Basics: How and Why? (11:30AM-12:00PM)
  Featuring Annie from PhD in Parenting
• Geek Lab Beginner 2a: Managing Your Twitterverse: The latest, hottest, bestest tools (1:30-2:00PM)
  Featuring Erin Kotecki Vest
• Geek Lab Beginner 2b: Beginning SEO (2:15-2:45PM)
  Featuring Kelby Carr
• Geek Lab Beginner 3a: How to Use Social Media to Promote your Blog (3:00-3:30PM)
  Featuring Sandy Carter
• Geek Lab Beginner 3b: Web Video/Videoblogging Tutorials and Resources - Resources you can use to help upload your videos (3:45-4:15PM)
  Featuring Gena Haskett

ADVANCED

• Geek Lab Advanced 1a: Apache Servers are Your Friend (10:45-11:15AM)
  Speaker to be determined
• Geek Lab Advanced 1b: .htaccess for Bloggers (11:30AM-12:00PM)
  Featuring Skye Kilaen
• Geek Lab Advanced 2a: PHP for Bloggers (1:30-2:00PM)
  Featuring Nelly Yusupova
• Geek Lab Advanced 2b: Stupid Unix Tricks (aka Learn to Love Your Command Line!) (2:15-2:45PM)
  Featuring Liz Henry
• Geek Lab Advanced 3a: Share your hacks, mash-ups and other rebel coding (3:00-3:30PM)
  Featuring Sarah Dopp
• Geek Lab Advanced 3b: Adding social networking to your blogging environment (3:45-4:15PM)
  Featuring Shazia Mistry

Sooo…Are you ready to get your geek on?