http://www.blogher.com/blogher-07-speakers Comments for "BlogHer '07 Speakers" en http://www.blogher.com/blogher-07-speakers <p>Meet the fabulous BlogHer '07 Speakers!</p> <p><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/AlwaysArousedGirl.jpg" border="0" alt="AlwaysArousedGirl" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Digital Exhibitionists or Chroniclers of their Time: Will Naked Bloggers Make History?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">AlwaysArousedGirl</a> </b></p> <p>AAG's been keeping a journal since she was a tiny wee girl; for the past 21 months, her journal's been online. She writes about marriage, divorce, dating, parenting, adoption, love, and sex. Lots of sex. AAG's thrilled to be speaking (stammering? stuttering? blushing? trembling?) at BlogHer about identity, nakedness and other facets of personal blogging. She's also terrified that someone will make fun of her lack of a mani/pedi, nice shoes and a fabulous purse. But that won't stop her from being there. ps--There will be oodles of swag in this session. Seriously. Oodles. Be there.</p> <p><a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/amira-al-hussaini/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/AmiraAlHussaini.jpg" border="0" alt="Amira Al Hussaini" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Women Across the World, Blogging: the Voice For Silenced Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/amira-al-hussaini/" target="_blank">Amira Al Hussaini</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Born, raised and educated in Bahrain, Amira is the first Bahraini journalist to become the news editor of an English Language daily. She is also the first Arab woman to ever win the Dag Hammarskjold Scholarship, in 1995, which has opened the door for her return to the United Nations headquarters in New York to cover the UNs sessions repeatedly over the years. Today she is Global Voices Online Middle East and North Africa Editor and Arabic translator – a post which opens up millions of possibilities to dive into the underground world of blogging in the Middle East every day.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/FayeAnderson.jpg" border="0" alt="Faye Anderson" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: How to Write Great Political Coverage: From Breaking News to Op-Ed</h3> <p><b><a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/">Faye Anderson</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Faye M. Anderson is a citizen journalist, and communications and public policy consultant. Anderson@Large, a featured blog of Typepad.com, was included in the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers and the blogosphere. Faye is the writer and producer of Counting on Democracy, a documentary about the 2000 election debacle, which aired on PBS and Link TV. In a New York Times op-ed piece, Faye popularized the metaphor “illusion of inclusion” to characterize Republican minority outreach efforts. Faye holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a BA in Political Science from the City College of New York.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/betsya/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/BetsyAoki.jpg" border="0" alt="Betsy Aoki" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Life Stages of Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/betsya/" target="_blank">Betsy Aoki</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Betsy Aoki recently joined Microsoft’s Xbox XNA team after working on Live QnA (qna.live.com), a large-scale consumer question-and-answer site with reputation and rating systems. She created "Norbert, the Cod of Conduct" to help keep order and assist newcomers to the site. Prior to that, Betsy was Microsoft's "Blog Queen" responsible for launching Microsoft's corporate blogging efforts at blogs.msdn.com and blogs.technet.com. An award-winning MFA poet and former Seattle Times columnist, she is also known for having founded the Seattle chapter of Webgrrls, the first Seattle chapter of Linuxchix, and being the first Web hire for seattletimes.com.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.nopasanada.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/HeatherBarmore.jpg" border="0" alt="Heather Barmore" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Digital Exhibitionists or Chroniclers of their Time: Will Naked Bloggers Make History?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.nopasanada.org/" target="_blank">Heather Barmore</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Heather Barmore (Heather B.) is the author of No Pasa Nada (<a href="http://www.nopasanada.org" title="www.nopasanada.org">www.nopasanada.org</a>), which tracks the first two years after her college graduation and not-so graceful entrée into the ‘adult world.’ (She has come to realize that becoming an actual adult possibly takes decades.) Heather is a Contributing Editor for BlogHer in the area of Business, Career and Personal Finance from the mind of a ‘young workaholic,’ and a freelance blogger in the area of women’s involvement in the political process. In 2006, along with <a href="http://www.jurgennation.com/">Stacy Campbell</a> and <a href="http://mamalikey.blogspot.com/">Kris Likey</a>, she started IndieBloggers.org, a site dedicated to giving independent bloggers space to show off their writing talents.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.elise.com/recipes/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/EliseBauer.jpg" border="0" alt="Elise Bauer" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Technical Tools To Build Traffic</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.elise.com/recipes" target="_blank">Elise Bauer </a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> For much of her career, Elise Bauer has been advising technology companies on their marketing and business strategies. Her clients over the last twenty years have included Apple, Symantec, Warner Music Group, Seagate, Technorati, and a host of technology start-up companies. A few years ago Elise started Simply Recipes (<a href="http://www.elise.com/recipes" title="http://www.elise.com/recipes">http://www.elise.com/recipes</a>), a food and cooking blog, as a place to keep a record of what she was learning, cooking with her parents. Over the last 4 years Simply Recipes has grown to reach over 40,000 visitors a day, and produces more than 3 million page views per month. According to FeedBurner, there are over 200,000 subscribers to Simply Recipe's RSS feed. Elise was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the "hidden influencers" of the web. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://lesbianfamily.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/lizabk.jpg" border="0" alt="Liza Barry-Kessler" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://lesbianfamily.org" target="_blank">Liza Barry-Kessler </a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Liza Barry-Kessler is the founder and coordinator of LesbianFamily.org, a blog portal that helps people to find all kinds of lesbian family blogs. She writes on a wide range of topics including parenthood, books, and politics on her personal blog, <a>LizaWasHere</a> By day, Liza is an attorney with an Internet communications company. She and her partner have been non-legally married since 2003 and mothers since 2006. Liza is co-author of the book <em>Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues Facing Public, School, and Academic Libraries</em>. Liza dreams of being able to support her family as a writer of both "fun stuff" and important issues. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://ning.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/GinaBianchini.jpg" border="0" alt="Gina Bianchini" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Day Two Keynote Breakfast: What Humans Do with Artificial Intelligence</h3> <p><b><a href="http://ning.com/" target="_blank">Gina Bianchini</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Gina Bianchini is the co-founder and CEO of Ning (<a href="http://www.ning.com" title="www.ning.com">www.ning.com</a>), a social networking service with a twist - it empowers people to create their own social websites and social networks. Prior to Ning, she was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications which was acquired by Dentsu. She has also held positions at CKS Group and Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Stanford Business School. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://brittbravo.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/BrittBravo.jpg" border="0" alt="Britt Bravo" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Part 1 - Raising Money</h3> <p><b><a href="http://brittbravo.com/" target="_blank">Britt Bravo</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Britt specializes in stories about people and organizations who are creating positive change. She writes for blogs, produces podcasts and teaches others how to blog and podcast. She writes for BlogHer (where she is the Co-editor of the Social Change, Nonprofits and NGO section), Have Fun * Do Good, NetSquared and WorldChanging San Francisco, and produces three podcasts: the Big Vision Podcast, the NetSquared Podcast, and the Arts and Healing Podcast. Using her 16 years of experience working with nonprofits, socially responsible businesses, and artists, Britt provides consulting to nonprofits and individuals to help them realize their Big Vision.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://susiebright.blogs.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/SusieBright.jpg" border="0" alt="Susie Bright" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://susiebright.blogs.com//" target="_blank">Susie Bright</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Susie Bright is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality and politics. She publishes Susie Bright's Journal at susiebright.blogs.com, is an editor of The Best American Erotica, and has authored Mommy's Little Girl, Full Exposure, and The Sexual State of the Union. She is a host and producer of Audible Presents: In Bed with Susie Bright (<a href="http://www.audible.com/susiebright" title="http://www.audible.com/susiebright">http://www.audible.com/susiebright</a>). She currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://blog.ninaburokas.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/NinaBurokas.jpg" border="0" alt="Nina Burokas" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Self-branding and Self-promotion</h3> <p><b><a href="http://blog.ninaburokas.com/" target="_blank">Nina Burokas</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Nina Burokas is a brand and communications strategist with expertise in personal branding, digital branding and leadership development. She advises women on managing their brand as an asset: for visibility, credibility and market value. In addition, she consults with organizations on using personal branding to achieve performance, development and cultural objectives. A Kellogg MBA and Reach Certified Brand Strategist, Nina has a passion for people, life and generally “keeping it hot.” She is the Director of WITI – OC, Brand Champion for IABC – OC, co-producer of Innovation Conversations and book editor and columnist for Savvy magazine.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.blogher.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/elisacamahort.jpg" border="0" alt="Elisa Camahort" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Day One General Session: Welcome, Day Two Keynote Breakfast: What Humans Do with Artificial Intelligence</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.blogher.com/" target="_blank">Elisa Camahort</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Elisa Camahort is a co-founder of <a href="http://www.blogher.com">BlogHer</a> and manages its events, marketing and corporate operations. A marketing executive with 17 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Elisa Camahort was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging and currently writes nine blogs. She blogs at various times about marketing, health issues, green and eco-conscious living, being a vegan, and reality TV talent shows like American Idol and Project Runway!</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://jurgennation.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/StacyCampbell.jpg" border="0" alt="Anastacia Campbell" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Digital Exhibitionists or Chroniclers of their Time: Will Naked Bloggers Make History?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://jurgennation.com/" target="_blank">Anastacia Campbell</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Anastacia Campbell has absolutely no idea what to do with her life. She graduated college with an enviable GPA planning a career in law, but it wasn’t meant to be. Meanwhile, she blogs at the wildly popular* <a href="http://www.jurgennation.com" title="www.jurgennation.com">www.jurgennation.com</a>, and is a photographer whose work is found at Anastacia Campbell Photography (<a href="http://www.anastaciacampbell.com" title="www.anastaciacampbell.com">www.anastaciacampbell.com</a>). She founded Indie Bloggers (<a href="http://www.indiebloggers.org" title="www.indiebloggers.org">www.indiebloggers.org</a>), a growing community of writers who fall under the radar, and co-manages the site with her BFF, Kris. She dreams at night (and during the day when she should be working) of becoming a full-time writer/photographer; she just needs some help.<br /> <i>* That’s a lie, but have you seen these other bios?</i></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.craftychica.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KathyCanoMurillo.jpg" border="0" alt="Kathy Cano-Murillo" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Crafts</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.craftychica.com/" target="_blank">Kathy Cano-Murillo</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> In the early '90s - long before crafts were cool again - Kathy Cano-Murillo made her glittery Latino pop art as a way to celebrate her culture, express her personality - and pay the bills. After creating hundreds of handmade pieces for boutiques, galleries and corporations, Kathy joined The Arizona Republic as an entertainment reporter and eventually became their weekly craft columnist. Her column, which is now syndicated through Gannett News Service, led to six published books including Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul (Rayo/Harper Collins). Kathy recently joined Duncan Crafts, where she is currently designing a bold and sparkly Crafty Chica product line. Her web site, CraftyChica.com, receives nearly 2 million hits a month and remains a one-woman operation. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1175/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ZoeChafe.jpg" border="0" alt="Zoë Chafe" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1175/" target="_blank">Zoë Chafe</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Zoë Chafe is a research associate at the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization. She writes for publications such as State of the World, Vital Signs, and World Watch magazine, and co-authored the recent report, “Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace”. She tracks travel trends and “green” living options. Her current research focuses on carbon markets and carbon offsets. Zoë previously worked with the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, the US Forest Service, and the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. She served on the national steering committee of SustainUS, the US Youth Network for Sustainable Development. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.ljcfyi.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/jennyCisney.jpg" border="0" alt="Jenny Cisney" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (A Lab Segment)</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.ljcfyi.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Cisney</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Jenny Cisney is a web designer for Eastman Kodak. Eleven years ago she moved to Rochester, NY to get a MFA in Computer Graphics Design at Rochester Institute of Technology... then never left town. In her spare time she likes photography, knitting, gardening, cooking, snowboarding, traveling, collecting vintage pyrex and eating cupcakes. If you travel with her you WILL eat cupcakes and you WILL have your picture taken while you are eating them. Always willing to try new things she is currently learning Suzuki violin, yoga and sustainable living. You can find her at her own blog <a href="http://www.ljcfyi.com" title="www.ljcfyi.com">www.ljcfyi.com</a>, the Kodak corporate blog 1000words.kodak.com and on Rocha-chatter, a blog about Rochester on the local Insider newspaper site <a href="http://www.rochesterinsider.com/blogs/chatter" title="www.rochesterinsider.com/blogs/chatter">www.rochesterinsider.com/blogs/chatter</a>. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.warmtone.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/TraceyClark.jpg" border="0" alt="Tracey Clark" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Blogging is More Than Words</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.warmtone.com/" target="_blank">Tracey Clark </a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>With a passion for capturing the beauty of everyday life in pictures and an unbridled enthusiasm for sharing her musings with the masses, Tracey Clark keeps herself in constant creative motion. She’s managed to blend her love for photography and writing with the precarious art of raising both a spirited preschooler and a tireless tween, creating a perfect alchemy. Besides photography, two Motherhood Journals with Chronicle Books, Picture This at ClubMom and contributions to Minti, AlphaMom and Culture Brats, she’s behind Mother May I and her latest project Shutter Sisters. With all that, Tracey claims she’s just scratching the surface.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.nextsteph.com/stephblog/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/stephanie_cockerl.jpg" border="0" alt="Stephanie Cockerl" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Self-branding and Self-promotion</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.nextsteph.com/stephblog/" target="_blank">Stephanie Cockerl</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Stephanie M. Cockerl is the owner of nextSTEPH, which specializes in online marketing, web site analysis, web site design, and development. With over 10 years of experience, nextSTEPH has won numerous awards including being a finalist in the Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs, and receiving the Bronze Award from Portfolios.com. Stephanie has been featured in MediaBistro's AvantGuild; in Webgrrls.com; in Silicon Salley Magazine; and as a "Featured Technodiva" on iVillage.com. She is also a contributing author. Stephanie received her MBA in Media Management from Metropolitan College of New York and a Bachelor of Architecture Degree (B. Arch) from Cornell University.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.hummingcrow.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/CherylColan.jpg" border="0" alt="Cheryl Colan " /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Advanced Multimedia Labs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.hummingcrow.com/" target="_blank">Cheryl Colan </a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Cheryl Colan teaches Digital Multimedia and Computer Graphics courses at Scottsdale Community College and at Phoenix College. She began her career in multimedia working at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park, where she produced video and audio components for permanent exhibitions. Cheryl teaches Digital Storytelling as a semester-long class for students, and as a week-long workshop for faculty. In Spring 2007, Cheryl taught Arizona's first college course on videoblogging at Phoenix College. She founded Node101 Phoenix in 2006 to bring free, on-demand vlogging workshops to her local community.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.badladies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/CatherineConnors.jpg" border="0" alt="Catherine Connors" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The State of the Momosphere</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.badladies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Catherine Connors </a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Catherine Connors is a mother, writer and recovering academic. When she's not changing diapers, delivering lectures on political philosophy or writing scholarly articles about the characterization of motherhood in Western philosophy, she blogs as Her Bad Mother (<a href="http://www.badladies.blogspot.com" title="www.badladies.blogspot.com">www.badladies.blogspot.com</a>). She's also the moderator of Her Bad Mother's Basement (<a href="http://www.herbadmother.blogspot.com" title="www.herbadmother.blogspot.com">www.herbadmother.blogspot.com</a>), a open, confessional blog-space for "unpostable" posts, the founder and editor of MommyBlogsToronto ( <a href="http://www.mommyblogstoronto.com" title="www.mommyblogstoronto.com">www.mommyblogstoronto.com</a>), a collaborative blogzine for parent bloggers in Toronto, Canada, and beyond, and one of the founders of BlogRhet (<a href="http://www.blogrhet.blogspot.com" title="www.blogrhet.blogspot.com">www.blogrhet.blogspot.com</a>), a collaborative blog for academics and others interested in critical analysis of blogs and blogging. She relaxes by gossiping at Babble.com, inventing cocktails and trimming her toenails, which grow really, really quickly.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://ginacooper.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/GinaCooper-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Gina Cooper" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://ginacooper.com/" target="_blank">Gina Cooper</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Gina Cooper is executive director of the YearlyKos Convention, a first-of-its-kind, off-line gathering of progressive activists, politicians, media and organizations who use the internet to effect real-space change. Often cited as a spokeswoman for other online activists, Gina has appeared on several national radio and television programs, including NPR's Morning Edition and CSpan's Washington Journal, and has been quoted in The New York Times and other major newspapers. Before her work with YKC, Gina was an early netroots activist and high school teacher in Memphis, Tennessee. Gina blogs her personal thoughts as a private citizen turned political organizer at ginacooper.com.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://mayasmom.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/AnnCrady.jpg" border="0" alt="Ann Crady" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://mayasmom.com/" target="_blank">Ann Crady</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Ann Crady is the CEO and founder of Maya’s Mom (<a href="http://mayasmom.com" title="http://mayasmom.com">http://mayasmom.com</a>), a leading social networking site for parents. Launching in November 2006, Crady secured a notable roster of angel investors, including Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, ex-Yahoo! executive Geoff Ralston, Tickle founder James Currier, Presto’s Raymond Stern, Michael Tanne of Wink, angel investor Jeff Clavier, and venture capitalist firm, True Ventures. Prior to founding Maya’s Mom, Crady served a five-year tenure at Yahoo!. As director of business development for Yahoo! Autos, Crady grew revenue from $10M in 2001 to $42M in 2005, and later served as the division’s director of strategic initiatives, spearheading major partner relationships.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://thewip.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KateDaniels.jpg" border="0" alt="Kate Daniels" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: How to Write Great Political Coverage: From Breaking News to Op-Ed</h3> <p><b><a href="http://thewip.net/" target="_blank">Kate Daniels</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Katharine Daniels is the founder and Executive Editor of The Women’s International Perspective (The WIP), a comprehensive news website of women contributors that reports world news, opinion, and commentary. Prior to The WIP, she taught ESL and Spanish and regularly blogged las meditaciones de victoria, a blend of political, social, and cultural commentary. Katharine earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies from Sarah Lawrence College and her Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University. Katharine has lived and studied in Central and South America and currently resides in California with her husband.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.lainad.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LainaDawes.jpg" border="0" alt="Laina Dawes" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Does the Blogosphere Need an Intolerance Intervention?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.lainad.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Laina Dawes</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Laina Dawes is a freelance journalist, music critic and blogger from Toronto, Ontario. She is a contributing editor for the Race, Ethnicity and Culture section for BlogHer. She moderated a panel at the 2007 South By Southwest Interactive Festival entitled "Bridging the Cultural Divide Online," where panellists discussed how discussing race online can be problematic for bloggers and how the acknowledgement of diverse populations on social networking sites can be improved. She was also a panellist at the 2006 South By Southwest Interactive Festival, the 2005 Blogher conference and presented a paper on black women in the metal scene at the Experience Music Project conference in 2005.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.webteacher.ws/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/VirginiaDebolt.jpg" border="0" alt="Virginia DeBolt" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Find Out Why Bloggers Care About Web Standards</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.webteacher.ws/" target="_blank">Virginia DeBolt</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Virginia DeBolt, writer and educator, writes about web design, web standards, accessibility and other web related topics from an education point of view. She’s written two books aimed at both learners and teachers of HTML and CSS that emphasize using standards and accessibility in web design as best practices. The books are Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn and Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS. Her blog on these topics is Web Teacher (<a href="http://www.webteacher.ws" title="http://www.webteacher.ws">http://www.webteacher.ws</a>). Virginia is a lifelong writer. When she was teaching in the public schools, she wrote four books to help teachers teach writing. Now she is involved in writing groups and has a creative writing blog that provides writing prompts and encourages writers to begin a piece of writing at First 50 Words (<a href="http://first50.wordpress.com" title="http://first50.wordpress.com">http://first50.wordpress.com</a>).</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KalynDenny.jpg" border="0" alt="Kalyn Denny" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Foodblogging</h3> <p><b><a href="http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kalyn Denny</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Fourth grade teacher by day, food blogger by night, Kalyn Denny combines a love for food, writing, and community in her blog: Kalyn's Kitchen, and at Blogher.org. Kalyn discovered blogging accidentally when her brother suggested it as a way to keep up with recipe requests. Now, Kalyn's recipes are featured in newspapers and on many sites, and in 2006 Kalyn's Kitchen won a Food Blog Award for best theme blog. Kalyn also created Weekend Herb Blogging, a popular weekly event. Before being a blogger, she catered houseboat trips and was an officer in the Davis, Utah, and National Education Association.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.blogher.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JoryDesJardins-Best.jpg" border="0" alt="Jory Des Jardins" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Day One General Session: Welcome, The State of the Momosphere</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.blogher.com/" target="_blank">Jory Des Jardins</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Jory is co-founder of <a href="http://www.blogher.com">BlogHer</a>, an organization that creates opportunities for women bloggers to pursue exposure, education, and community and that works with media and technology companies on integrating traditional and social media into their business and editorial practices. She writes on women’s business issues, marketing, blogging, and entrepreneurship for Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, and her blog, Pause, which has provided the basis for a book she is writing on women in the workplace and an essay on corporate authenticity in More Space: Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business. She’s written for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Working Woman, USA Today Magazine, and The New York Times.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://askpatty.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JodyDevere.jpg" border="0" alt="Jody DeVere" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Professional Blogging: Ways and Means</h3> <p><b><a href="http://askpatty.com/" target="_blank">Jody DeVere</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Jody DeVere comes to Ask Patty with more than twenty-five years of achievement as a successful entrepreneur focused on sales and marketing leadership including ten years developing web based business solutions across diverse industries. DeVere is currently the President of the Woman's Automotive Association International (<a href="http://www.waai.com" title="www.waai.com">www.waai.com</a>), the premier women's organization for women automotive professionals, a member of the Car Care Council Women's Board, a member of the California State Advisory Board for SkillsUSA, Chairperson of the United Spinal Motor Sports Committee, and a member of the SEMA Businesswomen's Networking Association. DeVere is based in Southern California and has three children and five grandchildren.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin;_ylt=ApuDNz4HQvt_afu36nyW_lnxLJA5" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/DoryDevlin.jpg" border="0" alt="Dory Devlin" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin;_ylt=ApuDNz4HQvt_afu36nyW_lnxLJA5" target="_blank">Dory Devlin</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Dory Devlin blogs daily about kids, parents, and technology on Yahoo! Tech. She is 45, the mom of three kids (ages 14, 12, and 10), and only beginning to truly clue in to the power of the social web. She'd like to help more women of various ages tap into the opportunity and community prevalent in the blogosphere. As a journalist for more than 20 years, Dory has been a newspaper reporter and columnist, exploring work-life balance, workplace issues, and entrepreneurship. She has also written for Fortune Small Business and the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com. Her blogs provide a daily look at the convergence of work, family life, and technology.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://barbdybwad.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/BarbDybwad.jpg" border="0" alt="Barb Dybwad" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Blogging Workflow Tools and Tricks</h3> <p><b><a href="http://barbdybwad.net/" target="_blank">Barb Dybwad</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Barb Dybwad is a Producer at Weblogs, Inc., an AOL company. She oversees the Technorati #1 blog Engadget, popular gaming blog Joystiq, and their niche spinoffs. Previously she was senior editor at Engadget and editor-in-chief<br /> of the Social Software Weblog. Before becoming a professional blogger, Barb owned and operated her own web development business, Live Mind Design. LMD designed and developed sites for academia and small businesses in PHP/MySQL and ColdFusion, from back end to front. Current interests include participatory culture, gaming, social computing, web 2.0, MMORPGs, knowledge management, social media, remix technologies, mobile technologies, and the placeless office.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.edventure.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/EstherDyson.jpg" border="0" alt="Esther Dyson" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Day Two Keynote Breakfast: What Humans Do with Artificial Intelligence</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.edventure.com/" target="_blank">Esther Dyson</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Esther Dyson is the Internet’s court jester, a person of no institutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and to be heard when and where it matters. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Boxbe, CVO Group, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)…and WPP Group (not a start-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr and Del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!), BrightMail (sold to Symantec), Orbitz (sold to Cendant), Medstory (sold to Microsoft), ActiveWeave, BlogAds, ChoiceStream, Dotomi, Linkstorm, Mashery, Ovusoft, Plazes, Powerset, Resilient, Tacit, Technorati, Visible Path, Vizu.com and Zedo. She does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004. You can find out more from links at <a href="http://www.edventure.com" title="www.edventure.com">www.edventure.com</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LaurieTobyEdison.jpg" border="0" alt="Laurie Toby Edison" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Our Bodies, Our Blogs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss/" target="_blank">Laurie Toby Edison</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Photographer Laurie Toby Edison and editor Debbie Notkin write together on their body image blog "Body Impolitic". She has published Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes and Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes. Edison's photographs have been exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, Shanghai and San Francisco. Her solo exhibition "Meditations on the Body" at the National Museum of Art in Osaka featured 100 photographs. She has recently completed Women of Japan, clothed portraits of women from many cultures and backgrounds. Women of Japan will be a featured exhibition of Nippon 2007, D104the World Science fiction Convention (<a href="http://www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss" title="www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss">www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss</a>). </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http:://johnedwards.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ElizabethEdwards-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Elizabeth Edwards" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Closing Keynote</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.johnedwards.com/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Edwards</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Elizabeth Edwards shares her husband's deep commitment to improving the daily lives of all Americans and making sure that everyone in this country has the opportunity to succeed. A passionate advocate for children and families, as well as an accomplished attorney, she has been a tireless advocate for many important causes. Elizabeth is the daughter of a decorated Navy pilot. In her early years, she attended school in Japan, where her father was stationed with a reconnaissance squadron, flying missions over China and North Korea. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Elizabeth majored in English. She went on to study American literature but then switched to law, graduating from UNC Law School in May 1977. She met John in law school, and they got married the Saturday after they took the bar exam.</p> <p>Like her husband, Elizabeth has an impressive legal background. Following law school, she clerked with U.S. District Court Judge Calvitt Clarke, Jr. in Norfolk, Virginia. Later, she worked for the North Carolina Attorney General's office and then was a bankruptcy lawyer in Raleigh, North Carolina. Elizabeth also taught legal writing as an adjunct instructor at UNC Law School for two years, and in 1997-98, she was a member of the first group of Public Fellows at the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC.</p> <p>Both Elizabeth and her husband are strongly committed to strengthening communities and expanding educational opportunities for all children. She volunteered with the Parent Teacher Associations at her children's schools, and has been active in their youth soccer leagues in several roles. In 1996, John and Elizabeth helped establish the Wade Edwards Foundation, and helped build a free computer lab—the Wade Edwards Learning Lab—for high school students in Raleigh. Recently, the foundation opened a similar computer lab in Goldsboro. Elizabeth volunteered at the lab in Raleigh nearly every day, until the family came to Washington following her husband's 1998 election to the U.S. Senate. The Wade Edwards Foundation also runs a statewide short fiction contest for North Carolina's high school juniors, awarding scholarships and grants to high school English students.</p> <p>The country has gotten to know Elizabeth as she has campaigned extensively across the country during her husband's presidential and vice-presidential campaigns. The day after the general election in 2004, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Elizabeth was in remission until March 2007 when she discovered her cancer had returned. Elizabeth and John made the decision to continue on with the campaign and Elizabeth has kept an active schedule of campaign activities. Elizabeth's courageous battle with breast cancer has served as an inspiration to women across the country.</p> <p>John and Elizabeth have four children, including: their eldest daughter, Catharine, who is attending law school; nine-year-old Emma Claire; and a seven-year-old son, Jack. Their first child, Wade, died in 1996. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://table4five.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ElizabethEdwards.jpg" border="0" alt="Elizabeth Edwards" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (A Lab Segment)</h3> <p><b><a href="http://table4five.net/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Edwards</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Elizabeth is the author of three blogs, is married to her High School Sweetheart, and is the proud stay-at-home Mother to her two sons Ryan and Nathan and her daughter Kaitlyn. She blogs to stay sane while caring for her family, the house, the dog, the cat, and pretty much everything else. When not blogging, she enjoys reading, watching TV and movies, shopping at Target, and drinking way too much coffee and Diet Coke. She enjoys telling parenting stories at Table for Five, writing product reviews at MomReviews, and sharing favorite recipes at MomCooks. Contact her at <a href="mailto:elizabeth@table4five.net">elizabeth@table4five.net</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.instepconsulting.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ColetteEllis.jpg" border="0" alt="Colette Ellis" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Mentoring and Coaching</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.instepconsulting.com/" target="_blank">Colette Ellis</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Colette Ellis is a Blogger, Coach, Educator, and Speaker. As Founding Principal of InStep Consulting LLC (<a href="http://www.instepconsulting.com" title="www.instepconsulting.com">www.instepconsulting.com</a>), she helps people and organizations discover their competent advantage™. Adept at learning her client’s needs, Colette bases her intuitive approach on nearly 15 years providing professional development services to leading Fortune 500 companies. She believes that a keen awareness of your motivators, values and training needs combined with an aptitude to promote your talents will enable you define a successful career path. Via her Competent Advantage™ career coaching program (<a href="http://competent-advantage.blogspot.com" title="http://competent-advantage.blogspot.com">http://competent-advantage.blogspot.com</a>), Colette helps clients identify strengths and position themselves for new opportunities. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://taxgirl.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KellyErb.jpg" border="0" alt="Kelly Erb" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Professional Blogging: Business Considerations</h3> <p><b><a href="http://taxgirl.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Erb</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>When Kelly Philips Erb entered law school, she swore that she would never take a course in tax law course because it sounded boring and she didn't want to wear a suit to work. More than 10 years later, Kelly is an attorney where her specific focus is... tax law. It took an energetic tax professor to make Kelly realize that tax isn't boring but it's often presented in complicated and dry terms. Determined to change this, Kelly created taxgirl.com. As part of her popular "ask the taxgirl" segment, she finds a number of her questions come from small business owners - and bloggers - who aren't quite sure how to report their nontraditional jobs for tax purposes.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.cookandeat.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LaraFerroni.jpg" border="0" alt="Lara Ferroni" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Food Photography</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.cookandeat.com/" target="_blank">Lara Ferroni</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Lara Ferroni, a Seattle food photographer and writer, has a not-so-small obsession with food. Where most people might simply cook and eat, Lara feels compelled to document each and every bite and sip. From culinary tours through the ID to snapping photos in some of best kitchens to indulging in a five-hour feast, she almost always doing something with food. Lara has penned pieces and snapped shots for Seattle Magazine, Portland Monthly Magazine, Edible San Francisco and Seattle Best Places in addition to her own blog Cook &amp; Eat (<a href="http://www.cookandeat.com" title="http://www.cookandeat.com">http://www.cookandeat.com</a>). Knowing that there are others out there, like her, that were trying to improve their photography, she started another blog dedicated to food styling and photography called Still Life With (<a href="http://www.stilllifewith.com" title="http://www.stilllifewith.com">http://www.stilllifewith.com</a>), to help other bloggers learn a trick or two.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://eggbeater.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ShunaLydon.jpg" border="0" alt="Shuna Fish Lydon" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Foodblogging</h3> <p><b><a href="http://eggbeater.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Shuna Fish Lydon</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Shuna Fish Lydon is a seasonal, fruit-inspired pastry chef who has been cooking professionally for almost 15 years. Her resume includes such notable kitchens as Gramercy Tavern, The French Laundry and Citizen Cake. Shuna began blogging when she bought her first computer, just over two years ago. Understanding only the basics of email, Shuna was introduced to blogs and began Eggbeater with the help of friend, Jen Maiser of <a href="http://fogcity.blogs.com/">Life Begins @ Thirty</a>. Eggbeater has won two awards consecutively from The Best Food Blog Awards. This is her second year at BlogHer and she is honored to be coming this year as a speaker. </p></blockquote> <h3> Panel: The Art of Storytelling</h3> <p><b><a href="http://clairedujour.com/" target="_blank">Claire Fontaine</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Claire Fontaine worked in film for several years before the publication of her bestselling memoir, <em>Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back</em>, HarperCollins, 2006. Written with her daughter, Mia, in alternating first-person accounts, the widely-acclaimed <em>Come Back</em> is Target's Winter 2007 Bookmarked Book Club Pick. Claire brought a screenwriter's tools, most crucially structure, to the memoir-writing process to craft a unique dual-narrative that resonates powerfully with readers across a broad spectrum. It is her firm belief that humans are hard-wired for three-act structure, in writing and in life. Claire divides her time between a nascent gourmet food business (a long-time dream) and working on another mother/daughter book with Mia. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.vanessafoxmude.com"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/VanessaFox.jpg" border="0" alt="Vanessa Fox" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Technical Tools To Build Traffic</h3> <p><b> <a href="http://www.vanessafoxmude.com/" target="_blank">Vanessa Fox</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Vanessa Fox was previously product manager for <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com">Google Webmaster Central</a>, where she built tools to help site owners learn more about their sites in the Google index. She recently joined <a href="http://www.zillow.com">Zillow</a>, focused on the challenges of the vertical and local search space. She regularly participates in the conversation about search in the blogosphere and forums on the web. She speaks at search-related conferences throughout the year and is an avid <a href="http://dailysearchcast.com/060831-142957.html">Buffy The Vampire Slayer</a> fan. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://now.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KimGandy.jpg" border="0" alt="Kim Gandy" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Patriots Act: How to Turn Your Blog into a GOtV (Get Out the Vote) Machine</h3> <p><b><a href="http://now.org/" target="_blank">Kim Gandy</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Kim Gandy was re-elected to her second term as President of the <a href="http://now.org">National Organization for Women (NOW)</a> on July 3, 2005. She was first elected President in 2001, after serving as Executive Vice President since 1991 and National Secretary from 1987 to 1991. As President of NOW, Gandy also chairs NOW's Foundation and Political Action Committees and serves as the organization's principal spokesperson. Gandy oversees NOW's initiatives and campaigns, including: NOW's Women-Friendly Workplace campaign; the Campus Action Network, Young Feminist Task Force, Racial Diversity Program, Save the Courts Initiative and Equal Marriage Campaign. </p></blockquote> <h3> Panel: Blogging is More Than Words</h3> <p><b><a href="http://nobitingwolfie.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Renee Garner</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Renee Garner is a 2 dimensional artist from Matthews, North Carolina with a university education in painting, drawing and fibers as fine art. She has been shown her work for the past 10 years and promotes herself through her website, <a href="http://wolfieandthesneak.com" title="http://wolfieandthesneak.com">http://wolfieandthesneak.com</a>, and her blog, <a href="http://nobitingwolfie.blogspot.com" title="http://nobitingwolfie.blogspot.com">http://nobitingwolfie.blogspot.com</a>. Her artwork explores the value and lure of commodity by dissecting the everyday world. Her pieces assimilate immaterial and unassuming objects with symbols of importance, status, and beauty resulting in an invaluable art object. Renee considers aesthetics and how they determine worth. Each work is a question of consumption and the resultant waste from consumerism. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.wannabehippie.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ElaineGingery.jpg" border="0" alt="Elaine Gingery" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: It’s Your Passion, Not Size, That Matters</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.wannabehippie.com/" target="_blank">Elaine Gingery</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Once the Managing Director of a kick ass alternative theatre, Elaine now enjoys the job of mama to two kick ass alternative girls, age two and four. She holds a Creative Writing degree with a minor in Women's Studies and can be found writing about and photographing her family at Wannabe Hippie (<a href="http://www.wannabehippie.com/" title="http://www.wannabehippie.com/">http://www.wannabehippie.com/</a>), tending the zen garden that is Mama Says Om (<a href="http://www.mamasaysom.com" title="http://www.mamasaysom.com">http://www.mamasaysom.com</a>) and working up a political rant at The Soccer Mom Vote (<a href="http://www.thesoccermomvote.com" title="http://www.thesoccermomvote.com">http://www.thesoccermomvote.com</a>). She spends her free time trying to come up with alternative ways to say "NO!", knitting badly, running around in circles and working as a 1950's Tupperware lady.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://chow.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JaneGoldman.jpg" border="0" alt="Jane Goldman" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Life Stages of Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://chow.com/" target="_blank">Jane Goldman</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Jane Goldman, Editor in Chief of CNET Networks Lifestyle, oversees the editorial and development teams of CHOW.com, an interactive media property for food and drink enthusiasts, and UrbanBaby, the ultimate parenting resource. Before founding the magazine CHOW (the print version of the website chow.com), Jane was editor of The Industry Standard, the record-breaking magazine about business and technology. She’s been a writer or editor for magazines including New York, Rolling Stone, Wired, Savvy, and Us, and has a degree in law from Stanford, another in film production from NYU.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.greenbergresearch.com/index.php?ID=458&amp;authorID=446" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/AnnaGreenberg.jpg" border="0" alt="Anna Greenberg" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.greenbergresearch.com/index.php?ID=458&amp;authorID=446/" target="_blank">Anna Greenberg</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Anna Greenberg is a leading Democratic pollster and polling expert. She advises campaigns, advocacy organizations, and foundations in the United States. Greenberg has played a key role in helping to elect Democratic women to Congress, including, in 2006, Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. She has also polled extensively for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other independent expenditure campaigns. In the 2004 election cycle, she worked closely with organizations<br /> involved in the presidential campaign including MoveOn.org, The Media Fund, the Human Rights Campaign, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Women’s Voices Women Vote, and the League of Conservation Voters, helping them develop message, advertising, and targeting strategies. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://spap-oop.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/TishGrier.jpg" border="0" alt="Tish Grier" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Does the Blogosphere Need an Intolerance Intervention?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://spap-oop.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tish Grier</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Tish Grier is one of the Agent Provocateurs of the blogosphere, challenging the A-list and creating conversation and conncetion in unexpected places. She has worked on innovative projects such as Assignment Zero (<a href="http://zero.newassignment.net" title="http://zero.newassignment.net">http://zero.newassignment.net</a>) the We Media Miami conference, and the Corante Media Hub. In between, she blogs about new media at the Constant Observer (<a href="http://spap-oop.blogspot.com" title="http://spap-oop.blogspot.com">http://spap-oop.blogspot.com</a>) and occasionally about her personal life at Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams (<a href="http://lovehopesexdreams.blogspot.com" title="http://lovehopesexdreams.blogspot.com">http://lovehopesexdreams.blogspot.com</a>).</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://mom-101.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LizGumbinner.jpg" border="0" alt="Liz Gumbinner" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Professional Blogging: Business Considerations</h3> <p><b><a href="http://mom-101.blogspot.com">Liz Gumbinner</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Liz Gumbinner is as an award-winning advertising creative director, having developed work for brands like Mitsubishi, Old Navy, and Universal theme parks. But in the blog world, she's known as the voice behind Mom-101 (<a href="http://mom-101.blogspot.com" title="http://mom-101.blogspot.com">http://mom-101.blogspot.com</a>), a popular parenting blog which has been featured in the New York Times, and lauded as "funny some of the time" by an enthusiastic anonymous commenter. Along with her partner Kristen Chase, Liz is also the co-founder and editor of Cool Mom Picks (<a href="http://coolmompicks.com" title="http://coolmompicks.com">http://coolmompicks.com</a>), a shopping blog featuring cheeky reviews of kids' gifts and gear with an independent sensibility. And yes, both of her blogs happily accept advertising.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/MaryKatherineHam.jpg" border="0" alt="Mary Katharine Ham" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/" target="_blank">Mary Katharine Ham</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Mary Katharine Ham is an editor and blogger with a background in both the mainstream media and conservative politics. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2002 with a degree in Newspaper Journalism. She was a sports and features reporter and copy editor at a North Carolina newspaper, where she won two North Carolina Press Association awards. After that, she headed to The Heritage Foundation as the editor of The Insider magazine. She served as a columnist and associate editor of Townhall.com before she joined the Salem team as editor in October 2005. Since working with Salem Communications, she has blogged at the Townhall Blog, written a column, and produced a weekly video blog called HamNation.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/GenaHaskett.jpg" border="0" alt="Gena Haskett" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Advanced Multimedia Labs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Gena Haskett</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Gena is a videoblogger and writer in the Los Angeles area. Currently she creates content for Out On The Stoop (<a href="http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com" title="http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com">http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com</a>), a free form video/text blog that documents her experiences traveling around Los Angeles and connections to the world beyond artificial borders. Most recently she was one of the curators to Pixelodeon 2007. Gena also contributes to Vidlicious (<a href="http://vidlicious.blogspot.com" title="http://vidlicious.blogspot.com">http://vidlicious.blogspot.com</a>), an online video collective of female vloggers.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://bookmaniac.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LizHenry.jpg" border="0" alt="Liz Henry" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Does the Blogosphere Need an Intolerance Intervention?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://bookmaniac.net" target="_blank">Liz Henry</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Liz Henry is a blogger, literary critic, poet, translator, and geek. She writes for BlogHer.org, othermag, Metroblogging, ALTA, Composite, and Feministsf.net. Liz works for Socialtext, a wiki software company, as the open source project manager. You can find her at <a href="http://bookmaniac.net" title="http://bookmaniac.net">http://bookmaniac.net</a>. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://ivaw.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JenIVAW22.jpg" border="0" alt="Jennifer Hogg" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://ivaw.org" target="_blank">Jennifer Hogg</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Jennifer Hogg served in the Army National Guard in Buffalo, New York from 2000-2005. Her opposition to the war started prior to the initial invasion based on the information available at that time. Jennifer saw activation on 9/11 and activation of her unit where mechanics and welders were deployed as Infantry, barring her from deployment. Unable to further answer to her conscience due to the war and the treatment of minorities in the military, she left the military as a SGT and is active in GI resistance through Iraq Veterans Against the War serving as a Board member and treasurer. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://zootdesigns.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KimHolmes.jpg" border="0" alt="Kim Holmes" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (A Lab Segment)</h3> <p><b><a href="http://zootdesigns.com/" target="_blank">Kim Holmes</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Kim (aka Zoot) started building web pages back before the days of WYSIWYG design. She is very stubborn and is still building web pages using Notepad. When Kim started blogging in 2003, she found that this stubbornness came in very handy in the world of blog design where edits usually have to be made template code. She has spent the years since helping bloggers do everything from adding banners to their sidebar to creating themes. She considers this "fun" because deep down inside, she is a giant geek. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://Lawgarithms.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/Denise.jpg" border="0" alt="Denise Howell" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Professional Blogging: Business Considerations</h3> <p><b><a href="http://Lawgarithms.com/" target="_blank">Denise Howell</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Denise Howell is a lawyer, blogger, and podcaster. As an appellate and intellectual property litigator, she has handled matters for a wide variety of industries and individuals and enjoys broad industry recognition for her expertise on the intersection of emerging technologies and law. Denise's writings on online communication and syndication techniques are widely referenced as pioneering texts that examine the legal and cultural ramifications of these media. She writes one of the first law-related weblogs, Bag and Baggage, in addition to authoring ZDNet’s Lawgarithms.com. Denise also hosts two audio series, probing the areas where technology and society intersect to form issues under existing and developing law. Denise is both a member of the Identity Gang (a Harvard Law School/Berkman Center affiliated working group examining digital identity issues) and on the advisory boards of Top Ten Media and the Law and Policy Institutions Guide. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://horsepigcow.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/TaraHunt.jpg" border="0" alt="Tara Hunt" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://horsepigcow.com/" target="_blank">Tara Hunt</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Tara 'miss rogue' Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing when she was in Canada, showing companies how to brave this new medium, all the way to being part of one of the companies in Silicon Valley that led the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web. Tara understands how the the participatory web is changing all of our relationships: B2C, B2B and C2C. She doesn't believe in pushing messages or creating strong brands, only in the power of building relationships. She co-founded <a href="http://citizenagency.com">Citizen Agency</a> in 2006 with the mission of teaching her clients how to work more effectively with the communities they serve and how to embrace and adjust to all of the changes in culture businesses are facing. She maintains a successful blog over at <a href="http://HorsePigCow.com">HorsePigCow</a>. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://cardamomaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/Jasmine-Cardamom.jpg" border="0" alt="Jasmine" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Foodblogging</h3> <p><b><a href="http://cardamomaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jasmine (from Confessions of a Cardamom Addict)</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Jasmine’s foodblogging licence comes from one simple truth: she likes to eat…and she likes to prattle…okay, that’s two simple truths. The daughter of an excellent Indian home cook who turns everything into a curry, Jasmine is happiest surrounded by sharp knives, fresh food and quick wits. Jasmine records her culinary thoughts and disasters in two blogs: Confessions of a Cardamom Addict (<a href="http://cardamomaddict.blogspot.com" title="http://cardamomaddict.blogspot.com">http://cardamomaddict.blogspot.com</a>) features recipes, reviews, and research; SensualGourmet: Kitchen Diaries records her scullery banalities. Both blogs, along with other omnivorous ramblings are accessible through SensualGourmet.ca. She is also the editor of Foodieblogs.net and a columnist for Canada Eats. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.lapajaro.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/BirdieJaworski.jpg" border="0" alt="Birdie Jaworski" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Storytelling</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.lapajaro.com/" target="_blank">Birdie Jaworski</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Birdie Jaworski lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico with her two young bys. Birdie's blogs have been featured in the NYT, the Wall Street Jurnal, and Time Magazine. Birdie is a Contributing Editor at BlogHer, and a Correspondent for Gather.com. Birdie writes about life in rural northeast New Mexico. She has had printed stories published in Good Housekeeping, the San Diego Reader, the Las Vegas Times, Adoption Today, in addition to many other print and online publications. Birdie recently completing writing a memoir of her time as an Avon Lady. Birdie's internet home is at <a href="http://www.lapajaro.com" title="http://www.lapajaro.com">http://www.lapajaro.com</a>.</p></blockquote> <h3> Panel: Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (A Lab Segment)</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.kerflop.com" target="_blank">Jessica (from Kerflop)</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Jessica is an entrepreneur raising three noisy children in the middle of potato country. In a life that is often chaotic, writing website code feels like a dream vacation to an island resort where logic reigns supreme and no one will dump a vat of yogurt all over her freshly coded style sheet. A self taught web designer, Jessica owns and runs a couple of businesses with her husband: <a href="http://www.diapershop.com" title="www.diapershop.com">www.diapershop.com</a> and verybaby.com. She enjoys helping others start their own businesses and weblogs, and owns far too many domain names. Jessica writes about her daily life <a href="http://www.kerflop.com" title="www.kerflop.com">www.kerflop.com</a> and tries to remember to reboot the laundry before it turns sour. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://lynnedjohnson.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LynneDJohnson.jpg" border="0" alt="Lynne D. Johnson" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://lynnedjohnson.com/" target="_blank">Lynne D. Johnson</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Lynne D. Johnson is the senior editor of FastCompany.com (<a href="http://www.fastcompany.com" title="http://www.fastcompany.com">http://www.fastcompany.com</a>). In this capacity, she oversees editorial and community functionality of the site. Prior to joining Fast Company, Lynne was the General Manager, New Media for Vibe and Spin magazines, with responsibility for management of day-to-day marketing, editorial, production, business development, and sales operations for the magazines’ web and mobile properties. She also formerly served as a reporter and editor of BlackPlanet.com, the leading ethnic social networking site, as well as associate editor of Digital New York, a magazine and online destination for creatives working in digital media; among various other writing and editing positions in both print and online media. Lynne holds an MBA in Media Management from the Metropolitan College of New York, and advanced certificate in Multicultural Studies from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, and a BA in Journalism from the State University of New York College at New Paltz.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://blog.squarespace.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KrystynJones.jpg" border="0" alt="Krystyn Heide" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (A Lab Segment)</h3> <p><b><a href="http://blog.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Krystyn Jones</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Krystyn has been designing for over a decade for advertising agencies, new media companies and brands such as AT&amp;T and Busch, among others. She currently operates as Senior Designer at Squarespace -- which she affectiontely refers to as "the swankiest web publishing company in the universe". She's also the green thumb behind Mama Says Om, a zen garden for women writers and artists she co-founded with one of this year's other speakers, <a href="http://www.wannabehippie.com">Elaine Gingery</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.revolutionhealth.com/blogs/valjonesmd/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ValJones.jpg" border="0" alt="Val Jones" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.revolutionhealth.com/blogs/valjonesmd/" target="_blank">Val Jones</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Val Jones, M.D., began medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1996. She founded the Clinical Nutrition and Obesity e-section of the Medscape General Medicine journal, was principal investigator of several clinical trials, and won first place in the 2005 Peter Cyrus Rizzo III research competition. She has worked part time as a food critic in New York City, a medical cartoonist, and Chief Resident of Rehabilitation Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. She is also a running enthusiast. After her residency, she joined Revolution Health to serve as Senior Medical Director of the portal. She is dedicated to her patients and to revolutionizing the U.S. health care system for their sakes.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="www.notesfromthetrenches.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ChrisJordan.jpg" border="0" alt="Chris Jordan" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The State of the Momosphere</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.notesfromthetrenches.com/" target="_blank">Chris Jordan</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Chris Jordan got married straight out of graduate school to her trophy husband, gave birth to more kids than you can count on one hand, and after twelve years of parenting still looks around and wonders when the real mother is going to come home. She has pieced together a career writing mainly about the exploits of her family and tries to balance her children's privacy with her desire to tell her story. In her spare time, she and her husband are rescuing their historic old house from a century of neglect and bad taste. Chris writes the blog Notes From the Trenches (<a href="http://www.notesfromthetrenches.com" title="www.notesfromthetrenches.com">www.notesfromthetrenches.com</a>) and recently began writing for BlogHer in the DIY category.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://photoshoponline.tv/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JanKabili.jpg" border="0" alt="Jan Kabili" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Food Photography</h3> <p><b><a href="http://photoshoponline.tv/" target="_blank">Jan Kabili</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Jan Kabili is an author, podcaster, and nationally known Photoshop guru. She produces photoshoponline.tv, a popular Photoshop training video podcast. She has blogged professionally for AOL Weblogs Inc., O’Reilly, and BlogHer. Jan’s recent speaking engagements include SXSW, Bar Camp, and Web Video Summit. Jan has authored many Photoshop books and writes for MacWorld and Photoshop User magazines. She is a consultant to Adobe Systems and has taught for lynda.com and other leading training companies and universities. Jan has a graduate degree in photography and a law degree from Stanford Law School (from which she is happily recovering).</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://christinekane.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ChristineKane.jpg" border="0" alt="Christine Kane" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Finding and Following Your Passion</h3> <p><b><a href="http://christinekane.com/" target="_blank">Christine Kane</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Christine Kane is a singer-songwriter and performer. She regularly headlines at celebrated festivals and theatres, but her career has expanded far beyond typical indie-music boundaries. Two national dance companies have choreographed ballets to Christine's music, spotlighting her at top Performance Arts centers. Christine’s songs have been recorded by popular artists, including Kathy Mattea and “Nashville Star” finalist Casey Simpson. Borders Books named one of Christine’s CD's "The Best of 2003," and The Washington Post called her “a petite powerhouse of a singer.” Christine is also sought-after as a teacher and speaker. In this capacity, she has appeared with several best-selling authors, including SARK and Jennifer Louden.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.bethkanter.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/BethKanter.jpg" border="0" alt="Beth Kanter" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Part 1 - Raising Money</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.bethkanter.org/" target="_blank">Beth Kanter</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Beth Kanter is a trainer, coach, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of technology. She has worked on projects that include: training, curriculum development, research, and evaluation. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing, video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, and virtual worlds, etc.) to support nonprofit. She is an experienced coach to "digital immigrants" in the personal mastery of these tools. She is a professional blogger and writes about the use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector for social change. You can learn more about Beth Kanter at <a href="http://beth.typepad.com" title="http://beth.typepad.com">http://beth.typepad.com</a>, <a href="http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com" title="http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com">http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.bethkanter.org" title="http://www.bethkanter.org">http://www.bethkanter.org</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://kitchen-parade-veggieventure.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/AlannaKellogg.jpg" border="0" alt="Alanna Kellogg" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Foodblogging</h3> <p><b><a href="http://kitchen-parade-veggieventure.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Alanna Kellogg</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Alanna Kellogg is the 'veggie evangelist' at A Veggie Venture, inspiring readers with recipes for vegetables from Asparagus to Zucchini -- and Amaranth to Zuccote -- many from the farmers markets in her hometown of St. Louis. When not peeling, chopping, braising, roasting and calculating Weight Watchers points, she also writes Kitchen Parade, the food and recipe column her mom started when Alanna was a baby. She is known for Quick Suppers and ‘Alanna-sizing’ recipes for portion size and sugar and fat content. Her flair for cooking extends to the herbs and flowers in her garden.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.vitalingus.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LissaKennedy.jpg" border="0" alt="VITA" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Part 1 - Raising Money</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.vitalingus.com/" target="_blank">VITA</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> VITA's professional background is quite diverse, from being a career counselor to working with government ministers. She is currently an arts researcher, manages events and PR, and is a script assessor. She has been promoting blogging tools and strategic social media applications through <a href="http://www.vitalingus.com" title="www.vitalingus.com">www.vitalingus.com</a> for over seven years. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://allaccessblogging.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/SkyeKilaen.jpg" border="0" alt="Skye Kilaen" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Find Out Why Bloggers Care About Web Standards</h3> <p><b><a href="http://allaccessblogging.com/" target="_blank">Skye Kilaen</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Skye Kilaen isn't a programmer, but that hasn't stopped her from making websites more accessible to visitors with disabilities. She's on a mission to convince bloggers of all types that it's easy and worthwhile to make sure their blogs say "Welcome" instead of "Do Not Enter." Her blog All Access Blogging is a source for concrete instructions for making any blog more accessible – even if you don't know an alt attribute from a skip navigation link (yet). Skye also writes about action movies at the feminist and anti-racist blog Heroine Content and about her life at Flooded Lizard Kingdom.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://Popgadget.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/MiaKim.jpg" border="0" alt="Mia Kim" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Writing Reviews</h3> <p><b><a href="http://Popgadget.net/" target="_blank">Mia Kim</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Mia Kim founded Popgadget.net, a technology and innovative lifestyle blog for women in April 2004, after over ten years of working in the new media industry. She was the new media director of BMG Entertainment, and worked as a technology strategist for companies such as Berlitz and Oxygen. She has a BFA in Film from New York University, where she also got her Master's in Interactive Telecommunications. She has been a new media instructor at NYU and contributes to many style and technology publications.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://onehotstove.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/NupurKittur.jpg" border="0" alt="Nupur Kittur" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Foodblogging</h3> <p><b><a href="http://onehotstove.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nupur Kittur</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Nupur recently obtained a doctorate in molecular biology but lives a secret life as a foodie. She started her blog "One Hot Stove" (<a href="http://onehotstove.blogspot.com" title="http://onehotstove.blogspot.com">http://onehotstove.blogspot.com</a>) as an escape from the stress of graduate school. Writing the blog sparked off a alphabetical series about the cuisine of her home state of Maharashtra in India, and an obsession with Indian regional cuisine. Today, Nupur's blog charts her baby steps as an awestruck home cook tasting the culture of her land. Two years of food blogging have reinforced her belief that the sharing of food, both virtually and literally, make the world a better place.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://murlafferty.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/MurLafferty.jpg" border="0" alt="Mur Lafferty" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Advanced Multimedia Labs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://murlafferty.com/" target="_blank">Mur Lafferty</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Mur has been podcasting since 2004, hosting or producing podcasts such as Geek Fu Action Grip, I Should Be Writing, Lulu Radio, Pseudodpod and John Edwards' One America Podcast. She works in the media department of Lulu.TV, producing and managing original vid- and podcasts for the site. In 2006, she co-wrote Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, a creative how-to book on podcasting. She has podcasted three novellas and plans to release a full-length novel in podcast form in Fall 2007. Mur has worked on the Internet for 11 years, either as a developer or writer for sites such as GameGirlz, Women Gamers, The Escapist and Grumble Magazine.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://bigslice.clubmom.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JennyLauck.jpg" border="0" alt="Jenny Lauck" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Our Bodies, Our Blogs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://bigslice.clubmom.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Lauck</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Jenny Lauck is a stay-at-home mom to three busy kids, who are the inspiration behind Three Kid Circus. After BlogHer 2005, where she was a panelist on the first ever Mommyblogging panel, Jenny and Jenn Satterwhite co-founded Mommybloggers.com. Jenny also maintains Big Slice of Life, Small Slice of Cheesecake, a weight loss blog at ClubMom. She can't seem to lose any weight, but she sure likes to talk about it. Jenny is a BlogHer Contributing Editor, offering her two cents on the latest movies, and serves up product and media reviews at Three Kid Circus Auditions. She really needs a nap.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://icmtalent.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KateLee.jpg" border="0" alt="Kate Lee" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Book to Blog and Back Again</h3> <p><b><a href="http://icmtalent.com/" target="_blank">Kate Lee</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Kate Lee has been at ICM for five years. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Her clients include Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers; New Yorker writer Cristina Henriquez; New York Times reporter Lily Koppel; Guilt &amp; Pleasure publisher and editor Roger Bennett and Jules Shell, respectively; HarperCollins Executive Editor David Hirshey; UCLA professor Josh Kun; Vanity Fair contributing editor Kate Reardon; memoirists David Matthews and Hana Schank (the latter a Discover Barnes &amp; Noble Great New Writer); Deadspin’s Will Leitch, The Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar; Los Angeles Times editor Matt Welch; New York Post Page Six reporter Paula Froelich; Boston Globe Magazine columnist Alison Lobron; Fitness Magazine Editor-in-Chief Denise Brodey; interior designer Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of Apartment Therapy, and TreeHugger.com, the biggest eco-site on the web. She also represents prominent bloggers including Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit.com), Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com) and Alex Balk and Doree Shafrir, both of Gawker.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://jenlemen.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JenLemen.jpg" border="0" alt="Jen Lemen" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: It’s Your Passion, Not Size, That Matters</h3> <p><b><a href="http://jenlemen.com/" target="_blank">Jen Lemen</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Jen Lemen lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her partner Dave and two wild children, Madeleine and Carter. All day long neighbors young and old climb through the Magic Door of her friendly old house bearing mugs of freshly brewed coffee, buttercup bouquets or savory feasts from faraway lands. When Jen's not dreaming up new ideas or eating a communal meal on her porch, you can find her two floors up in The Tower where she writes and illustrates zines from scratch. She tells the stories of this small but beautiful life on her blog jenlemen.com.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://mamalikey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/KrisLikey.jpg" border="0" alt="Kris Likey" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Digital Exhibitionists or Chroniclers of their Time: Will Naked Bloggers Make History?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://mamalikey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kris Likey</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Kris Likey is resident bridesmaid at "I’m not a girl, not yet a wino" (mamalikey.blogspot.com), her attempt at a lasting and relatively accurate account of the life of a DC 30-something. She is one of the mavens behind Indie Bloggers (<a href="http://www.indiebloggers.org" title="www.indiebloggers.org">www.indiebloggers.org</a>), a new site devoted to the beautiful community that is personal blogging. Kris is a firm believer in the healing powers of wine, CourtTV, and always carrying a pen so as not to miss a bloggable moment. When not failing miserably at group sports, Kris likes to harass small children and those who insist on making “What exit?” New Jersey jokes.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.carollinreporting.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/CarolLin.jpg" border="0" alt="Carol Lin" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Life Stages of Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.carollinreporting.com/" target="_blank">Carol Lin</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Carol is a former CNN Anchor, and founder of <a href="http://www.carollinreporting" title="www.carollinreporting">www.carollinreporting</a> and the Cancer Social Network. Carol Lin's role as National Correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America took her around the nation, from covering the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, the capture of the Unabomber, to exposing fraudulent adoption rings. During her 8 year tenure at CNN, Carol Lin traveled the world. Her passion was traveling to a number of warzones to go in-depth on the conflict and the people affected. Her personal story of loss and recovery after the birth of her child and the loss of her husband to cancer has propelled her to a ground-breaking new media site for families of cancer patients. The Beta version is launching as <a href="http://www.carollinreporting.com" title="www.carollinreporting.com">www.carollinreporting.com</a> on August 31st 2007. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://thecheekylotus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LenaLotsey.jpg" border="0" alt="Lena Lotsey" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The State of the Momosphere</h3> <p><b><a href="http://thecheekylotus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lena Lotsey</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Lena Lotsey is a freelance writer from Southern California who is scared of the ocean and allergic to the sun. She gave up her promising career in mortgage banking five years ago to wipe butts. Lena chronicles her trials in motherhood for Club Mom on her popular blog, Cheeky Lotus, as well as on her personal website, The Cheeky Lotus. As if she is not neglecting her family enough, she also exercises her mad gossip skills on the hugely popular pop-culture website, Mamapop. She believes you can never have enough love in your heart or vodka in your freezer.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flyawaycafe.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/MaryJoManzanares.jpg" border="0" alt="Mary Jo Manzanares" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Speaker Training</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.flyawaycafe.com/" target="_blank">Mary Jo Manzanares</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Mary Jo Manzanares has worn many hats over the course of her career, and blogger is only the most recent. Mary Jo is also an attorney, flight attendant, speaker and trainer. She develops and delivers interactive workshops on public speaking skills, and works with businesses, professional groups, and non-profits to design communication and leadership programs. She speaks frequently on the topic of public speaking, and works with a limited number of individuals as a private speech coach. Mary Jo now combines her love of travel with her other interests and skills as the Travel &amp; Culture Channel Editor for b5media, and blogs at Flyaway Café (<a href="http://www.flyawaycafe.com" title="www.flyawaycafe.com">www.flyawaycafe.com</a>) and The Seattle Traveler (<a href="http://www.theseattletraveler.com" title="www.theseattletraveler.com">www.theseattletraveler.com</a>).</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.joyunexpected.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/Yvonne.jpg" border="0" alt="Yvonne Marie" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Our Bodies, Our Blogs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.joyunexpected.com/" target="_blank">Yvonne Marie</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Yvonne's success story has taken her from High School Grad and stay at home mom of three, to published writer. Her personal blog, Joy Unexpected, is read by thousands weekly and was recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. One of the subjects she writes openly about is her struggle with weight and body image. She has publicly documented her weight loss, her weight gain and her journey to be at peace with a body she has spent years hating. Her honesty on the subject has angered some, but mostly resonated with many women who deal with the same struggle on a daily basis. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://poundy.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/WendyMcClure.jpg" border="0" alt="Wendy McClure" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Our Bodies, Our Blogs</h3> <p><b><a href="http://poundy.com/" target="_blank">Wendy McClure</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Wendy McClure has been writing online since 2001. She is the author of the memoir <em>I'm Not the New Me</em>, detailing her ambivalent adventures with weight, online identity, and doing "the fat girl tuck" in photos. She's s also known for her collection of 1974 diet recipe cards and the related book The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan. Her blog posts on subjects such as fat suits and Dove advertising became the basis for essays in Australian Style and the Chicago Sun-Times. Additionally, Wendy is the pop culture columnist at BUST magazine and a contributor to The New York Times.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://beenthere.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/EmilyMcKhann.jpg" border="0" alt="Emily McKhann" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Getting it On(line) for a Cause : Part 2 - Raising Consciousness</h3> <p><b><a href="http://beenthere.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Emily McKhann</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Emily McKhann is a blogger, writer and web entrepreneur. She shares a blog with Cooper Munroe, called Been There, and together they are leading BlogHers Act, a year-long effort to harness the power of women bloggers around a single cause. They won the Best of Blogs Award for Most Inspirational Blog of the Year in 2005 for their work following Hurricane Katrina. Emily and Cooper are building a website for mothers, called theMotherHood.com, coming this summer. Additionally, Emily is on the executive team of MomsRising.org and co-authored the book <em>Living with the End in Mind</em> that Oprah featured on her show several times.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.magpie-girl.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/RachelleMeeChapman.jpg" border="0" alt="Rachelle Mee-Chapman" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: It’s Your Passion, Not Size, That Matters</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.magpie-girl.com/" target="_blank">Rachelle Mee-Chapman</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Rachelle is a writer, artist, and mother who bases her eclectic career out of her Seattle studio. A firm believer that “small is beautiful,” Rachelle writes about art, life and motherhood at Magpie Girl, where she offers a tiny but perfect collection of handmade goods, artful zine’s, and vintage clothes. When she’s not getting distracted by sparkly things, Rachelle incubates other writing projects at the Urban Abbess where she blogs her about work as a very un-traditional ordained minister. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/susanmernit.jpg" border="0" alt="Susan Mernit" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Speaker Training</h3> <p><b><a href="http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Susan Mernit</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Susan Mernit is a longtime blogger at susanmernit.blogspot.com, and a contributing editor to BlogHer, focusing on Sex &amp; Relationships. A former consultant, Netscape, and AOL exec, she's been the head of product development for Yahoo! Personals for the past 18 months and loves her job (most of the time). She's an advisor to Placeblogger, the Center for Citizen Media and OurMedia and a longtime supporter of life-long learning, pushing the boundaries and embracing joy. Come say hello at the conference and tell her about your passions and experiences...she likes to learn.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://PaulaNealMooney.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/PaulaMooney.jpg" border="0" alt="Paula Mooney" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Professional Blogging: Ways and Means</h3> <p><b><a href="http://PaulaNealMooney.com/" target="_blank">Paula Mooney</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Paula Neal Mooney has been blogging since December 2005 and runs both PaulaNealMooney.com and WatchFreeEpisodes.com. She helps other bloggers make money and gain readers by describing methods she's used to increase her online income, which she reports to her readers monthly. Author of the famous "<a href="http://paulamooney.blogspot.com/2007/05/paulas-list-of-blogger-salariesare-you.html">Paula's List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries</a>," Paula's latest passion is helping Googlers find their favorite TV shows to watch online. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://beenthere.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/CooperMunroe.jpg" border="0" alt="Cooper Munroe" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Getting it On(line) for a Cause : Part 2 - Raising Consciousness</h3> <p><b><a href="http://beenthere.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Cooper Munroe</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Cooper Munroe is a blogger, writer, social activist and web entrepreneur. A contributing writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cooper can also be found writing at Been There, the blog she shares with Emily McKhann, HuffingtonPost.com, MomsRising.org, and BlogHer.org, where she is a contributing editor. Cooper and Emily won a Best of Blogs award for Most Inspirational Blog in 2005 for the work they did after Hurricane Katrina, an experience that taught them first-hand about the profound power of women organizing online. Look for TheMotherHood.com, (<a href="http://www.themotherhood.com" title="www.themotherhood.com">www.themotherhood.com</a>), a website for mothers that Cooper and Emily are launching this summer. Cooper lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband, Rick, and their four kids. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://Techsploitation.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/AnnaleeNewitz.jpg" border="0" alt="Annalee Newitz" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Day Two Keynote Breakfast: What Humans Do with Artificial Intelligence</h3> <p><b><a href="http://Techsploitation.com/" target="_blank">Annalee Newitz</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Annalee Newitz is a writer who covers the collisions between technology and media, culture and science. She is a contributing writer at <em>Wired</em> magazine, editor of indie magazine <em>other</em>, and writes the nationally syndicated column Techsploitation. She is the co-editor of <em>She's Such a Geek</em>, a collection of essays about female nerds. She's also President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://marianiles.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/MariaNiles.jpg" border="0" alt="Maria Niles" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Writing Reviews</h3> <p><b><a href="http://marianiles.com/" target="_blank">Maria Niles</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Maria Niles is a writer, editor, marketing consultant and market researcher. Maria has been a volunteer and speaker for BlogHer conferences since their inception and serves on the ’07 Conference Advisory Board. In addition, Maria is a Contributing Editor at BlogHer.org where she blogs about television. Maria posts sporadically to several blogs and shares her reviews and thoughts on pop culture on her blog Beyond Help (<a href="http://mariax.vox.com" title="http://mariax.vox.com">http://mariax.vox.com</a>) and can always be found at marianiles.com </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://blogrhet.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JoyPalmer.jpg" border="0" alt="Joy Palmer" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://blogrhet.com/" target="_blank">Joy Palmer</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Joy Palmer is Projects Director at Michigan State University's digital humanities research center, Matrix. A PhD in English, Joy is especially interested in the relation of gender to online social networking theories and especially how various communities articulate the contested meanings of gender and sexuality through the processes of online writing, interaction, debate and consensus-building. Joy started her personal blog, GingaJoy, as a means to escape the academic voice and to experiment with different forms of writing. Since then, she has found that blogging has inspired her intellectually, and one result of this is the newly established "meta" blog, BlogRhet. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JasmeenP.jpg" border="0" alt="Jasmeen Patheja" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Life Stages of Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jasmeen Patheja</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Jasmeen believes that people's interaction and participation completes her work. Her work is interventionist and uses a range of media; performance, photography, video and the blog. She has been committed to creating interactions in public spaces through a public and participatory arts project Blank Noise. Blank Noise project which started out as a student project is now a worldwide community of people interested in looking/confronting and exploring street sexual harassment/ 'eve teasing'. <a href="http://www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com" title="www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com">www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com</a> is an online community that probes and addresses street sexual harassment via both online events and street interventions across cities in India and now Pakistan. Jasmeen and Blank Noise have triggered debates about the intangibilty of street sexual harassment/violence, notion of 'modesty' and have challenged societal attitudes towards the issue referred to in popular parlance flippantly as "eve teasing." She graduated in visual arts from Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in 2003 and has been a fellow/affiliate at Sarai and Ashoka Innovators for the public. She has been an artist in residence at Khoj, India and is currently an artist in residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stutgart, Germany. Jasmeen is based in Bangalore, India.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://professorkim.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/kimpearson.jpg" border="0" alt="Kim Pearson" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: How to Write Great Political Coverage: From Breaking News to Op-Ed</h3> <p><b><a href="http://professorkim.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kim Pearson</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Kim Pearson is a contributing editor for the Media and Law sections of BlogHer. Her personal blog is Professor Kim’s News Notes (<a href="http://professorkim.blogspot.com" title="http://professorkim.blogspot.com">http://professorkim.blogspot.com</a>) She is an Associate Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, where she teaches writing courses in journalism and interactive multimedia, and does research on new tools for interactive journalism.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.latartinegourmande.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/BeatricePeltre.jpg" border="0" alt="Bea Peltre" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Food Photography</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.latartinegourmande.com/" target="_blank">Bea Peltre</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Béatrice Peltre writes the Food Photography Award Winning Blog “La Tartine Gourmande” (<a href="http://www.latartinegourmande.com" title="http://www.latartinegourmande.com">http://www.latartinegourmande.com</a>). Her food blog features anecdotal stories, photography and original bilingual recipes. She grew up in France, traveled around the world where she taught French and worked as a technical translator, and now lives in Boston. She is a contributor to the magazine Edible Boston and a freelance food photographer, stylist and recipe developer. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:bea@beaskitchen.com">bea@beaskitchen.com</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://emomsathome.com/blog/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/WendyPiersall.jpg" border="0" alt="Wendy Piersall" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Mentoring and Coaching</h3> <p><b><a href="http://emomsathome.com/blog/" target="_blank">Wendy Piersall</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Wendy Piersall is an experienced entrepreneur who blogs on home business, internet marketing, and work-life balance. She is also a certified coach and an online marketing consultant, mixing both life coaching and business consulting together as she works primarily with entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and home business owners. Wendy writes on her blog eMoms at Home and for the Entrepreneur.com Blog Network on business building at Inspired Business Growth.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/ElizabethPerry.jpg" border="0" alt="Elizabeth Perry" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Mentoring and Coaching</h3> <p><b><a href="http://elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Perry</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Elizabeth Perry is a writer, teacher, and new media artist from Pittsburgh, PA. She works at The Ellis School, an independent school for girls, where she is passionate about the potential for technology in a K-12 curriculum. As a catalyst, coach, and collaborator, she is a technical advisor and mentor to fellow faculty members and students. Her own sketchblog, woolgathering… (<a href="http://elizabethperry.com/woolgathering" title="http://elizabethperry.com/woolgathering">http://elizabethperry.com/woolgathering</a>), celebrates and reflects on everyday life with daily drawings and paintings. In the coming year Elizabeth will divide her time between The Ellis School and Carnegie Mellon University, where she will begin an artists' residency and research fellowship at the Studio for Creative Inquiry. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.leahpeah.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LeahPeterson.jpg" border="0" alt="Leah Petersen" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Crafts</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.leahpeah.com/" target="_blank">Leah Petersen</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Leah Peterson is a freelance and sometimes professional writer, photographer, artist and crafter. She is a compulsive starter-upper and now hosts two reading series, a craft-trading site and a blogger network. Leah also believes in sustainability, conserving resources and is herself made from 100% recycled material. You can find all Leah's projects at <a href="http://www.leahpeah.com" title="www.leahpeah.com">www.leahpeah.com</a>.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://citymama.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/StefaniaPomponiButler.jpg" border="0" alt="Stefania Pomponi Butler" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Professional Blogging: Ways and Means</h3> <p><b><a href="http://citymama.typepad.com" target="_blank">Stefania Pomponi Butler</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Stefania Pomponi Butler a.k.a. CityMama (<a href="http://citymama.typepad.com" title="http://citymama.typepad.com">http://citymama.typepad.com</a>) is the Blog Editor/Lead Blogger for Babble.com (<a href="http://babble.com" title="http://babble.com">http://babble.com</a>) overseeing the parenting news and info blog Strollerderby (<a href="http://strollerderby.com" title="http://strollerderby.com">http://strollerderby.com</a>) as well as Droolicious (baby products) and FameCrawler (celebrity babies). Stefania is a Founding Editor of Kimchi Mamas (<a href="http://kimchimamas.typepad.com" title="http://kimchimamas.typepad.com">http://kimchimamas.typepad.com</a>) and was also a Contributing Editor (Books and Entertainment) for BlogHer. She also blogs cooking for families at her food blog, Family Food. Her work has appeared in various parenting magazines, in the New York Times, and on Pacific Time on NPR. Stefania lives in the heart of Silicon Valley.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/GeorgiaPopplewell.jpg" border="0" alt="Georgia Popplewell" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Women Across the World</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/" target="_blank">Georgia Popplewell</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Georgia Popplewell is a media producer, journalist, editor and blogger from Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in independent television in the Caribbean since 1989 and has written extensively on culture, music, film and sport. In 2005, she started Caribbean Free Radio (<a href="http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog" title="http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog">http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog</a>), the Caribbean’s first podcast. Georgia is co-Managing Editor and Podcast Editor at Global Voices (<a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/" title="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/</a>).</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://lilacpixels.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/MarilynPorter.jpg" border="0" alt="Marilyn Porter" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Taking Your Blog to the Next Level (A Lab Segment)</h3> <p><b><a href="http://lilacpixels.com/" target="_blank">Marilyn Porter</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Marilyn has loved writing since she was a child. Her dreams of writing have been put on hold while she raises her family but thank goodness for blogs! She has written the blog Slackermama (<a href="http://slackermama.com" title="http://slackermama.com">http://slackermama.com</a>) for two and a half years and started Lilac Pixels (<a href="http://lilacpixels.com" title="http://lilacpixels.com">http://lilacpixels.com</a>), hoping to beautify other WordPress blogs. She has provided both free and customized templates for over two years and loves the creative outlet and technical challenge it has given her. She hopes to share her expertise and excitement with other bloggers who want their blog to look its best! </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/JennPozner.jpg" border="0" alt="Jennifer Pozner" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: Earn Our Votes: What Questions Do Women Bloggers Want Candidates to Answer in Election 2008?</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/" target="_blank">Jennifer Pozner</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Jennifer L. Pozner is founder and executive director of Women In Media &amp; News (WIMN), a women’s media analysis, education and advocacy organization dedicated to increasing women’s presence and power in the public debate (<a href="http://www.wimnonline.org" title="www.wimnonline.org">www.wimnonline.org</a>). For WIMN, she conducts media trainings for women’s groups, helps journalists and producers via the POWER Sources Project, and manages WIMN’s Voices, a group blog on women and the media (<a href="http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog" title="www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog">www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog</a>). Her work has been published in Ms., Newsday, Chicago Tribune and numerous others. Pozner has appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Hannity &amp; Colmes” and “Scarborough Country,” which isn’t nearly as fun as writing for Bitch magazine. She lectures about women, media, politics and pop culture at colleges across the country, conducts media trainings for women’s groups, and is writing a book about reality TV as anti-feminist backlash. In 2006, she was one chosen as one of “The Real Hot 100,” a Girls in Government project honoring young women leaders. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.ourchart.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/LisaReardon.jpg" border="0" alt="Lisa Reardon" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Life Stages of Online Communities</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.ourchart.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Reardon</a> </b></p> <blockquote><p> Lisa Reardon is the Community Editor of <a href="http://www.ourchart.com">OurChart.com</a>, the new social networking site for lesbians that was launched from an idea in the Showtime hit series "The L Word." Prior to becoming everyone's starter friend on the Chart, Lisa wrote about a variety of LGBT topics for <a href="http://gay.com/planetout">Gay.com/PlanetOut</a>, where she worked from 1999-2006, most recently in the role of Senior Producer. She lives in Boston with her girlfriend and their karaoke machine. </p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/kristysf/BH07Spkrs/Ree-PioneerWoman.jpg" border="0" alt="Ree" /></a></p> <h3> Panel: The Art of Storytelling</h3> <p><b><a href="http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/" target="_blank">Ree</a> </b></p> <blockquote> <p>Ree, aka The Pioneer Woman, chronicles her decade-long transition from spoiled city girl to isolated ranch wife on her award-winning weblog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman (<a href="http://www.thepioneerwoman.com" title="www.thepioneerwoman.com">www.thepioneerwoman.com</a>). Ree faithfully posts daily contributions to her site, including inspiring photography, tongue-in-cheek poetry, and often hilarious stories about her experiences as a city girl stuck in rural America. Ree recently launched a separate food blog, The Pioneer Woman Cooks! (<a href="http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com" title="www.thepioneerwomancooks.com">www.thepioneerwomancooks.com</a>), where she posts step-by-step pictorial recipes of the simple and delicious meals she cooks for her family. In her former life, Ree attended University of Southern California, where she majored in Gerontology.</p></blockquote> <p><