Happy Friday and happy Fall.  The weather is changing here in Northern California and I must say, it feels good; just in time for the upcoming holiday and BlogHer parties.Yes, I said parties!  Woo hooo!!!

Today we are excited to get started on BlogHer '10 programming by announcing our annual call for ideas! This post will describe: 1. What is the BlogHer '10 programming timeline? 2. What is the difference between BlogHer-programmed sessions and Room of Your Own sessions and how both are scheduled? 3. What is our call for ideas and what kind of suggestions are we looking for? 4. How do I send in my suggestions?

What is stopping you from using your food blog—or, really, any blog you write—to save the world? What is your barrier to entry into that place where your blog goes beyond telling a story and actually serves as a platform for the causes about which you’re most passionate?That was the question asked by Lydia Walshin of A Perfect Pantry and Drop In & Decorate® cookies for donation at the end of How Food Blogs Can Save The World, our panel at BlogHerFood ’09, and a worthy question which which to grapple. The participants in the panel--who also included Pim Techamuanvivit, who has raised more than $250,000 through her Menu For Hope event on Chez Pim, and Valerie Harrison of More Than Burnt Toast, who will release a fundraising cookbook in November as part of the efforts of BloggerAid: Changing the Face of Famine--were in various stages of their efforts, and they wanted to share their expertise with conference attendees.

Happy Friday!Another fabulous and productive week here at BlogHer and here are the highlights...BlogHer Food -  today we were able to open up the waitlist and add more bloggers for BlogHer Food!  We are taking names off the waitlist in order they were received - keep an eye on your inbox! 

I am thrilled to announce the third and final track of programming for BlogHer Food '09, taking place next month in San Francisco.

I am thrilled to announce the second track of programming for BlogHer Food '09, taking place next month in San Francisco.

Today we bring you the Closing Keynote of BlogHer Food '09, BlogHer's inaugural food blogging event. Here's the description from the online agenda: Foodblogging, now and forever

I am thrilled to announce the first track of programming for BlogHer Food '09, taking place next month in San Francisco. I'll be announcing a different track each day, so this is just the first of three exciting tracks! We'll be filling in the entire agenda right here. Track #1 will be: The Visuals Track, aka Photography

The wait is over. Following are the videos of each BlogHer '09 general session. You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll think; you'll see your favorite blogger read their most amazing blog post; you'll see Tina Brown ask you to give her your business card; you'll see Ezter Hargittai and danah boyd obliterate our assumptions about today's teens and tweens.

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll laugh and cry. How can you not? It's the return of the BlogHer Community Keynote! This year, 21 bloggers from our community read their own work, curated by the marvelous Eden Kennedy of Fussy, Let's Panic about Motherhood, and NaBloPoMo.

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.

I've gotten so many private emails from BlogHers who want to meet these women that I decided to open a conversation about the BlogHer '09 Saturday keynote I'll emcee with Tina Brown, Donna Byrd and Ilene Chaiken.