BlogHer - Announcing the BlogHer "Community Keynote" on Friday July 18th...and how YOU can be a part of it - Comments

Oh Boo. I missed the

MamacitaG — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:20:09 -0500

Oh Boo. I missed the deadline!

"Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum."

Agenda for Blogher

Amy In Ohio — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:18:58 -0500

www.amyinohio.wordpress.com

I wasn't sure where to put this - is there any chance some of the sessions could be duplicated - there are a few session times that I would really like to go to a couple offerings.

Why yes, check out the Reach Out Tour in October

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:30:49 -0500

here.

We're hitting DC and Boston.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

Karen -

KarenVogel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:44:57 -0500

Karen - www.suburbancorrespondent.blogspot.com

Bummer! Do you ever hold BlogHer on the East Coast?

Yes, Karen

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:43:25 -0500

Bloggers have to be present to read their own work.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

Keynote

KarenVogel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:41:40 -0500

Karen - www.suburbancorrespondent.blogspot.com

I'm confused - do I need to be planning to attend BlogHer to be able to submit my entries?

I'm in...

ByJane — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:06:17 -0500

...of course.

By Jane

http://byjane.blogspot.com

http://midlifebloggers.com

I see no problem with submitting comments

Elisa Camahort — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:04:10 -0500

Helps if the comment itself has a permalink to help direct us to it, but if you're particularly proud of a comment, I'd submit it for sure.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

I love this idea

Jill Miller Zimon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:35:13 -0500

And okay - because you don't work hard enough, might you consider COMMENTS? There are some amazing comments that have come from even the simplest posts.

Ok - like I said - because you need more work to do. :)

Jill
Writes Like She Talks

omg.

Tracey Clark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:07:31 -0500

Brilliant!

Tracey Clark Mother May I & Shutter Sisters

Great!

Liz Rizzo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:05:48 -0500

And this is so totally awesome - What a great idea!

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

We hadn't planned on any limits

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:35:07 -0500

Submit away. Any single person will only get to read once, but I see no reason you can't submit several of your favorites.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

Limit to submissions?

Liz Rizzo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:21:37 -0500

Not that I'm planning to send you'all like 100 posts - LOL

But are we just supposed to pick one or can we submit one for each category or what? Any limits?

Thanks,

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

Love this idea

arse poetica — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:31:54 -0500

Look forward to seeing the nominees!

Ayse (@arsepoetica)

Reach Out Tour programming

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:20:13 -0500

Hi Mara:

We'll be working on finalizing the Reach Out Tou programming throughout June and getting it announced as quickly as we can. Basically each Reach Out Tour will have at least one general session, but also a portion of the day where we break into two track. In each city one track will be devoted to blogging basics for beginning and newer bloggers, while the second track may change depending on the city, the local speakers and local interests.

Right now we're not planning this kind of blog post reading in each city because we'd like to see how this experiment works for the annual event first before branching out and doing it elsewhere.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Announcing the BlogHer "Community Keynote" on Friday July 18th...and how YOU can be a part of it

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:04:17 -0500

There's been a notable open slot in the BlogHer '08 Conference agenda, and that's because we've been cooking up something very special: The First Ever "Community Keynote" event at a BlogHer Conference.

That's right: the closing keynote for Day One of the conference will be live blog readings from the BlogHer community itself. You'll submit your favorite posts, and we'll get 20 of you at the microphone sharing that favorite post with the entire BlogHer crowd.We thought of calling it BlogHerpalooza, the BlogHer Slam, BlogHer Open Mic or some other such name. But it's a keynote and it will be built from the community, hence: The BlogHer Community Keynote.

Originally the brainchild of Eden Kennedy, who has some experience organizing large community writing efforts via NaBloPoMo, here's how it's going to work:

1. There will be five categories of submissions/readings:

Best Rant

Blogging About Blogging

Humor

Letter to My Body

Parenting

2. We are asking you to submit your favorite post that can be read in two-three minutes in any of the above categories.

3. Eden is working with a committee to go through submissions. Send your submission to Eden, cc'ing all three general committee members listed below PLUS cc'ing the applicable Category committee member from the second list.

Your submission should include:
Name (as you'd like it to be published/announced)
Blog URL
Favorite Post URL and its Category

General Community Keynote Committee
Eden Kennedy at: blogher08reading@gmail.com
Elisa Camahort Page at elisa@blogher.com
Kristy Sammis at kristy@blogher.com
Denise Tanton at denise@blogher.com

Category Community Keynote committee members:

Best Rant: cc: Mona from Kirida at ramonahickey@gmail.com

Blogging About Blogging: cc: Heather Barmore from No Pasa Nada at nopasanadablog@gmail.com

Humor: cc: Alice Bradley from finslippy at finslippy@gmail.com

Letter to My Body: cc: Debbie Notkin from Body Impolitic at kith@spicejar.org

Parenting: cc: Jessica from Oh, the Joys at ohthejoys@gmail.com

4. There will be 4 readings chosen per category, ensuring that we feature work about a wide variety of topics and from a diverse group of bloggers. The criteria? Well, it will vary according to category, but the basics are:

Did it make us laugh?
Did it make us cry?
Did it make nod our head in an "I've been there" kind of way?
Did it make us want to send the link to a bunch of other people to share the bloggy goodness?
Is it fresh, unique...in other words, could it only have come from you?

5. The timeline:

Submission deadline: Friday, June 13th

Submitters notified: Tuesday, July 8th

Time to prepare...get nervous, get over it and get excited: July 9-18!

6. One last thing: Question: Can you nominate your favorite post by someone else?

Answer: Yes, if you know that person will be there at the conference to read it, and you know they won't kill you for nominating them.

7. And to repeat, for good measure, the most important piece of instruction above: Send your submission to Eden, cc'ing all three general committee members listed PLUS cc'ing the applicable Category committee member from the second list

So, get to it! We cannot wait to start reading the Best. Posts. Ever. for the BlogHer Community Keynote event.