BlogHer - The BlogHer '08 schedule is coming together...check it out - Comments

I'm a little late to the

Suepattra — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:22:30 -0500

I'm a little late to the game on this thread but I TOTALLY second any sessions dealing with sex etc....especially since I missed Amber's unconference Sex 2.0!! (Thanks American Airlines, I shall love you forever, ha!).

Amber - look forward to meeting you in San Francisco as well as everyone else :-)

Very exciting!

Eve Fox — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:41:22 -0500

Hi Elisa,

so sorry not to have met you at women who tech a few weeks ago. I am really looking forward to the conference - my first blogher conference ever! I've been hearing great things from my friend Morra A. for a while now and am psyched to finally get to attend in person.

-Eve, the Garden Of Eating
http://www.GardenOfEatingBlog.com

You wing it Christine :)

Elisa Camahort — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:49:01 -0500

You vote with your feet...in fact we really encourage that, with so many simultaneous tracks, if the session you've chosen isn't floating oyur boat, you try a different one.

So, wing it...no need to reserve anything :)

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

As a BlogHer Newbie...

Christine Watch Me — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:46:58 -0500

...I'm confused. Do we sign up in advance for the session we wish to attend, or do we wing it while we're there?

I wanna go! I wanna go!

sassymonkey — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:50:21 -0500

Sigh. As I said last year and the year before - next year I'm going dagummit!

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

Amy, I am so excited to be on this panel.

lauriewrites — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:34:35 -0500

And I hope you'll introduce yourself either before or during. (I believe we'reTwitter contacts as well.)

Laurie

LaurieWrites

Good!

assertagirl — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:32:23 -0500

I'm very happy to see that there will be a place for discussion about being childless in the blogosphere. I've made so many great blogging friends who are moms but it can be a bit overwhelming to be in the minority, a member of the mommyblogging community without being a mommyblogger. Looking very much forward to it, thanks!

Amy Urquhart

Assertagirl

Playing in the Dirt

BlogHers ACT Canada

Sniff, sniff

Denise — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:43:39 -0500

That session with Melissa and Susie was opposite my panel and I'll never get over that. sniff sniff.

I'm counting on seeing Amber in Atlanta, at the very least - I cannot believe she and I have never met in person before. It's very very odd and we have all sorts of things (and people) to dish about.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Only if you'll agree to speak Amber :)

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:18:04 -0500

Actually we had a session about sex and blogging in '06 featuring Susie Bright and Melissa Gira among others, and last year there was an "off the record" meet-up for sex bloggers. ("Off the record" meaning it was on the record we were having the session, but people were asked not to blog it or reveal who participated...at the request of theorganizers.)

So, we've definitely touched on some of the elements you mention, although definitely not all.

So, which cities on the Tour are you able to attend?

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Cool!

amberlrhea — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:12:03 -0500

Looking good! Hey, whenever you start on the BlogHer Reach stuff, can there please be a session (or preferrably multiple sessions) dealing w/ sex, sexuality, sex work, that sort of thing? I feel that's one area that's been lacking from the otherwise awesome and well-rounded BlogHer conferences so far.

The BlogHer '08 schedule is coming together...check it out

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:23:50 -0500

Bit by bit, session by session, the BlogHer '08 Conference Agenda is being revealed. Check out the link, and make sure to scroll or click your way down to see the detailed descriptions, not just the session titles.

There are now five tracks:
Who We Are
What We Do
What We Believe
How We Communicate Who We Are, What We Do and What We Believe (aka the tech track)
And (drum roll please) we decided to add a MommyBlogging track!

I know that we all find ourselves torn between which sessions to attend (the most famous incident being when I schedule our own Denise to speak opposite a session featuring one of her heroes, Susie Bright...she will not let me forget it to this day!) So we briefly considered having fewer tracks, but when the ideas, recommendations, suggestions and submissions started flooding in, we threw that idea out and instead added another track!

Some sample sessions:

In the Who We Are track: We're kicking it off talking about an all-too-common topic, Introversion, Blogging and BlogHer. If the thought of walking into a room filled with hundreds of other bloggers makes your palms sweat and your heart pound, you are NOT alone, and we'll talk about why introversion and blogging go so well together, and about coping mechanisms to make the most of an event like BlogHer.

In the What We Do track: Last year's Blog to Book panel generated a ton of interest, so we're going back for Blog to Book Redux, featuring new authors, agents and publishers with new stories to tell.

In the What We Believe track: We have two absolute experts on hand to demystify Top-notch Political Opinion Writing. Whether you're getting your word out in comments, on your own blog...or shooting for the Op-Ed pages, this session is for you.

In the How We Communicate track: We've already got an online conversation going on debating what the Photography session should focus on. Get your vote in.

In the MommyBlogging track: We'll close this track with a session simply entitled When the Road To Motherhood Is Anything But Smooth, featuring some very powerful Infertility, Adoption and Miscarriage bloggers.

That's just a tiny taste of what every track is delivering. I encourage you to review the entire agenda and start planning the BlogHer Conference that is right for you.

Finally, you will notice a couple of things:

1. Not every session is listed yet
2. Not every session that is listed has a full roster of speakers.

Yes, I'm still working on it, and if you've emailed me an idea, recommendation or submission in the last 2 months and haven't heard back you can feel free to ping me again.

ETA for getting this all sewed up is by the end of April, so as they say: watch this space.