BlogHer - Room of Your Own Candidates - Comments

WOW--I LIKE YOUR PERSPECTIVE!

kathiwilliams — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:20:44 -0600

GREETINGS!

I bet your home looks a lot like mine, in terms of bookshelf contents...wonder what else we may have in common! What's your blogsite?

In the Light, ~Kathi

ps come visit mine!

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~Kathi
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request to be on sex panel

Tish G — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:55:23 -0600

I have absolutely no problem with this topic (as a lot of y'all who met me last year know) even though it doesn't really define my blogging overall. Still would be great to discuss it.

On Love and Hope And Sex and Dreams the most popular entries involved my on-going affair with "Lucky Bastard" (which really need to be categorized) and stuff I've written on the sex industry, sex work, and my favorite "When is a Fetish Not a Fetish?"

Perhaps I'll email Susie too...

My votes plus I'll tackle Faith Blogging

Evelyn Rodriguez — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:30:08 -0600

My votes are 2, 7, 10. And on 5...

I'd tackle hosting and finding bloghers to participate in Faith Blogging (maybe with a catchier name?) Room of Your Own. The church I attend is an "interfaith" church with all women reverends. I feel comfortable with Christian theology, Zen zazen, Sufi dervishes, and Hindu poojas plus the Wiccan, pagan and New Age communities as well. I spend a lot of my spare time reading the classic spiritual texts in all religions. And the first of a (small) network of blogs I'm launching is on enlightenment for everybody.

It's been a long day, I'll get out more of a "proposal" when I'm fresher - let me know what you need.

"Among all my patients in the second half of life - that is to say over thirty-five - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life." - Carl Jung

p.s. Jung viewed religion more in terms of this definition:

re-li-gion (ri lij' en) L. religio, religare, to bind back / re-, back + ligare, to bind, / bind together, to connect the lesser to the greater, the part to the whole

Hmmm, maybe Blogging Towards Wholeness: The Divine Feminine Blogs on Faith ??? Still brainstorming!

Right you are. There are

mobilejones — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:32:43 -0600

Right you are. There are BOFs at Blogher, but I was merely explaining my use of the term as BOFs occur at O'Reilly, IETF, Usenix (which I tend to think of as boy conferences). Their BOFs are both pre determined and ad hoc at conference time and do have speakers, demos, use conference facilities, and might be presented by someone on the session schedule or not. Those BOFs aren't quite as informal as the Blogher use of the term or as formal as a conference session. Hope that's a bit more clear.

Debi Jones
Contributing Editor, Blogging and Social Media
Feed your mobile jones

Brilliant!

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:06:55 -0600

Agree with Laura.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer and Worker Bees
elisa@blogher.org/elisa@workerbees.biz

LOL!!

Laura Scott — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:14:02 -0600

The best laugh all day!

Laura
· BlogHer website admin
· pingVision: Drupal theming, design, development and hosting
· personal blog

id do comedy

connie20062006 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:49:03 -0600

so have u retracted.

it's

mir — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:23:29 -0600

any hypothesis that starts

"I could be wrong but...."

: )

Miriam
The Flink
"like harnessing a unicorn to harvest potatoes"

There's an entirely other session for self-formed BOFs

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:52:44 -0600

If you take a look at the Day Two schedule you see there's an entirely separate one hour session for self-formed Birds of a Feather groups to meet. It will be done just like last year.

Room of Your Own sessions are actually pretty different from Birds of a Feather meet-ups at either typical or BlogHer conferences, in that BlogHer Room of Your Owns have all the accessories of a regular session...power, WiFi, microphones for speakers, plus live-bloggers to text and audio-record the session. Plus since the Room of Your Owns are committed to ahead of time, the session leaders can promote and evangelize their sessions to their communities. The only difference between a Room of Your Own session and a "regular" session is who drove the idea onto the conference schedule :)

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer and Worker Bees
elisa@blogher.org/elisa@workerbees.biz

It's like being asked to

mobilejones — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:22:53 -0600

It's like being asked to choose between the Democrats and Republicans. Lots of voices to choose from, but none quite fit me. It would be a shame to limit those willing to contribute to a do-cracy. BOFs at boy conferences don't do that. BOFs are usually arranged outside the session schedule. Birds of a Feather are the same thing as a ROYO, in case anyone's unfamiliar with the term.

Debi Jones
Contributing Editor, Blogging and Social Media
Feed your mobile jones

What a great slate of topics!

Laura Scott — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:47:35 -0600

2, 4, 6, 7 and 10 are most interesting to me.

This may be a dumb question, but what exactly is "feminist science"?

Laura
· BlogHer website admin
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· personal blog

1,4 and 7 for me

Nancy White — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:35:50 -0600

1,4 and 7 for me

My choices

lblanken — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:18:36 -0600

Leaving out my own, of course. They all look interesting. 6,7, and 10 look most interesting to me personally.

Candace, I think you'll find

lblanken — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:16:38 -0600

Candace, I think you'll find that we all have struggled to get people at our institutions to "get it." I'm sure we'll have lots to talk about. Looking forward to it!

Sex and Comedy...My two favorite things

Daxohol — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:41:26 -0600

I am all about number 3.
But I am really interested in the Sex room! I have been dabbling in writing some sexually charged stuff.

Link Textwww.daxohol.com

Room of Your Own Candidates

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:20:21 -0600

We have had many suggestions for Room of Your Own sessions, from fully-fleshed out panel abstracts to brief emails.

We currently have only SIX Room of Your Own slots. We will announce the selections by March 10th.

Here are the proposals we've received (in alphabetical order.) As always you can comment here with feedback, or feel free to email me directly.

1. Bi-Blogging
No, not what you think...we're talking bilingual. There are practical, political, even legal considerations. Bev Trayner and Liz Henry are the main instigators here, and you can see the Forum topic they started and read the very active thread on their ideas. That thread alone has already led to a new blog carnival, the Carnival of Translation!

2. Business Blog Case Studies
Susan Getgood and other blog consultants want to to have a session where people come and share their experiences...good and bad. Conferences often feature a handful of hand-picked case studies, with a goal of highlighting the best-case scenarios. But we know those are only a tiny part of the story, and that the attendees often have a lot of stories they could tell, if given the chance. This session would be that chance.

3. Comedy bloggers
According to Susie Felber, who submitted this concept: Comedy has always been a man's domain, but what about all the funny women who have their own domains? Comedy casting skews male, but blogging allows all to participate. A room devoted to either women who are professional comedians who blog (c'est moi, and many friends) or women whose focus is humor, but not necessarily pros. Again, why do we do it? What has come from it, if anything? And finally, it will be funny. So very funny.

4. EduBlogging
Three academics from prominent colleges note that women are using blogging in and out of the classroom but, and this will sound familiar: it's the male academics who get noticed. So, the session is about how to use this technology and how to raise the profile of the women using it. Barbara Ganley from Middlebury College, Laura Blankenship from Bryn Mawr and Barbara Sawhill from Oberlin are leading the charge and have this to add: Blogging in the Classroom and Blogging the Classroom: Using social software to create learning opportunities for our students and ourselves. This panel will bring educators and educational technologists together to talk about the benefits and realities of using blogs and other Web technologies in the classroom. We will discuss how social software
enhances and transforms the learning environment, dynamics, and outcomes; the responses of students to blogging classes; and impacts on our teaching and our network of colleagues when we blog the experience.

5. FaithBloggers
There are women of every faith blogging, and blogging their faith. But you probably wouldn't know that by looking at how blogging is covered in the media and at conferences, for that matter. I've seen bloggers blogging about the wish for a faithblogging session, but no one has submitted a specific idea. Before you think that means there's not enough interest, chew on this: that's exactly how MommyBlogging was this time last year. Could it be that bloggers of faith feel marginalized?

6. Feminist science and technology development
Is Open Source a "feminine" initiative? Do female developers develop a different product using the same requirements? Is the web itself a feminine construct? Several BlogHers have expressed interest in exploring these ideas and getting deeply geeky, including contributing editors mir verburg, Anne Zelenka and Nancy White. Melanie Swan also has a lot to say, given she has one of the very few futurist blogs by a woman out there.

7. Group Blogging
Amazing stories out there of people getting together, building communities, raising voices. From Sarah Gilbert building a group blog for Portland mothers to Mini Kahlon's inspiring work with teen podcasters. It all sounds so rosy, but our group bloggers also have to deal with practical realities. Technical and organizational realities. So there will definitely be some take-away to go with your inspiration!

8. MilBloggers
Another group that may need a BlogHer Room of Your Own to get their voice heard. They are out there...serving their country. Isn't this what blogging is supposed to be all about: hearing about important issues straight from the source, the woman on the street (or in the trenches)?

9. Sex
Say no more, say no more. Sex, erotica, relationships. Women have been writing about those subjects online for a long time. Susie Bright is just one such woman who wants to talk about it at BlogHer. Who's up for it? (heh heh.) Clearly I need help since the topic is making me break out both Monty Pyton and Beavis & Butthead references!

10. Transforming Your Life and Work via Blogging
Whether changing paths altogether or simply taking a current path to an entirely new level, there are women who have done amazing things, simply by using their blogs. Deni Bonet and Nina Smith are two such women. Deni is a musician who has built an incredible and loyal following by building a community with her fans. Nina is a former software-geek who, in only eight months, established herself as an authority in a new field by carving out a specific niche: personal finance for the queer community. Those are only two stories out there of women who have made radical changes to their life and work with a click of the 'Publish' link.

Phew. You BlogHers are full of ideas.

I can't wait to see what everyone thinks of all of these topics. My problem is that I think they're all great! I think I'll take advantage of some of the great features of Drupal technology and create a poll. In the meantime...comment (or post in the Forums) away!