BlogHer - What is the Room of Your Own? - Comments

Proposal: Room of Ones Own: BlogHers in Recovery

Redsy — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:06:26 -0500

[posted this in the wrong place before...sorry]

Bloghers in Recovery

I'd like to propose a section for women
in recovery... Sometimes events like BlogHer are challenging for people
who are recovering from alcohol or drug addiction.. this section would
provide a safe space to discuss:

* the challenges and rewards of sober/recovery blogging

* issues of anonymity

* how to build a stronger recovery community amongs bloggers

Thanks for the opportunity to suggest this.

Rachael

www.redsy.com

Red is good

Bloghers in Recovery

Redsy — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:05:12 -0500

I'd like to propose a section for women in recovery... Sometimes events like BlogHer are challenging for people who are recovering from alcohol or drug addiction.. this section would provide a safe space to discuss:

* the challenges and rewards of sober/recovery blogging

* issues of anonymity

* how to build a stronger recovery community amongs bloggers

Thanks for the opportunity to suggest this.

Rachael

www.redsy.com

Red is good

Hi suzfltbrns: Did you also submit via process?

Elisa Camahort — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:11:21 -0600

Just want to make sure your suggestion gets a fair hearing. To get that you need to submit it via the Room of Your Own submission process. Learn more about that process here

Elisa Camahort Page
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Setting Up an Online Presence That Attracts Nat'l Media

suzfltbrns — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:46:58 -0600

Hi. I speak nationally about how to package your online presence to attract media - it has to do with branding, image, cred, of course, and 'hookiness' - and my clients get cold calls from CNN, People, PBS, 60 Minutes, Time, People, major publishers, etc. One of my clients was Pam Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation who is now a top 4000 blogger - so yeah, bloggers, nat media may be dying but it's still a viable way to get yourself noticed. Because along with them also come the cadre of big bloggers who love your stuff (maybe they actually come first ;-))

In my talk 'CNN Called; How to Package Your Online Biz to Attract National Media" I'd speak about branding, creating hookiness, how to sell 'soft fuzzy stuff' like coaching/self help/consulting/info, and the importance of how the thing looks, signature visuals. etc.

You can see what I'm all about at www.getknownnowblog.com ... most of my clients are blogging up a storm these days - video on their results is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAgrpf360rE

Thanks for listening - give a vote if this speaks to you.

2009 Room of Your Own process

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:51:01 -0600

Hey everyone:

We've updated our process for suggesting Room of Your Own sessions for 2009. Check out the post here.

Elisa Camahort Page
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

My BlogHer profile truly shows you everything I do online...Check it out!!

Faith/Religion Bloggers

moxieworks — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:30:08 -0600

I would suggest Religion Blogging. I am a Unitarian Universalist blogger. I blog personally in that sphere. I talk about issues in relation to myself from that perspective. There are well connected communities of religious bloggers throughout the web & it is a passion - one that I don't think has been covered.

The nice part of being a UU blogger is that we have the tools to connect easily to one another. I can talk about that as well to help other religious bloggers connect with like minds.

There are Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Mormon, Buddhist, etc. bloggers out there who are writing about their lives from that personal experience. The exciting part about this is that if you are searching spiritually there are many resources for seekers - it is a great time to be reaching out to new religious communities - by connecting directly with members of that particular branch.

I have been a UU for 39 years - I know of which I speak and I have spoken about connecting to religious communities in other venues. - I think there is value in faith and spirituality blogger and a room of their own would be wonderful.

Starting over

DeBorahBeatty — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:47:11 -0600

I'd love to do a session on failure recovery; either personal or environmental.

How do you start over again when you've apparently lost everything? What are some techniques for gathering up the threads of your life and weaving them into a tapestry of greatness?

DeBorah Beatty

DEBORAHBEATTY.COM

Opportunity's Knocking Open the Door!

I help solopreneurs Visualize, Optimize and Materialize their Dreams by putting systems in place to handle repetitive tasks and break overwhelming tasks into bite-sized pieces, creating a framework for success and a strategy for living a created life.

Animals and livestock

aella — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:26:55 -0500

I'm uncomfortable that both of my blogs are a subsection of Mommy and Family. The catblogosphere is bigger and more beautiful than just the family. AND, I compete in an Olympic sport (no it's not under sports) that both men and women compete in -- equally. Riders tend to be older than other athletes and so are the horses. Horses are not pets, they are livestock and in my case, dancing partners. Let's get an animal category at Blogher out of a discussion on animals and livestock blogs.

Cato
http://www.creaturesoftheearth.com

http://www.teddyatcenterline.com

ArtPax and ViV: Email me with your session name & time slot pref

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:09:42 -0500

HI there:

What I need you to do to get these ideas on the schedule is:

Review this post to understand the process, then commit to lead a session yourself by:

1. Reviewing the agenda

2. Sending me an email with:
a. Your top 3 preferred time slots for your session
b. Your name for your session

There are still slots open, so I say: "Go for it!"

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.com

Social Media Sites and How They Fit In With Your Blogging World

vbruss — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:38:17 -0500

I would love to have a room to discuss how social media is helping BlogHers to connect with other bloggers from tech, marketing, publishing, etc. in order to network. I'm specifically interested in interactive social sites like Twitter and Friendfeed, etc.

Thanks! ~Viv

www.coolmomsrule.blogspot.com

The Emergent Virtual World

artpax — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:22:14 -0500

How about a fun b.s. session/brainstorming session on speculation about the emergent virtual world? Web 3.0 to the Nth. What will the metaverse look like in ten years. 20 years? What will blogs morph into? Will we have avatars speak our blogs or will we use images or ourselves, some combination of both? Will this mean something like limitless channels on a combined TV Internet 4th Wall? Where should we aim? Where are current trajectories headed? What is the cutting edge down the path likely to be given best guesses?

Nancy

aka Artpax aka Ana Herzog

Build Peace
Virtuality
My Life As An Avatar

Kathy: Safe Space

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:32:33 -0600

Hi Kathy:

We have had a topic suggested that might encompass all of that: how to create your own safe space online. nothing's really been decided for summer programming yet, but that is one proposed topic that resonates with a lot of BlogHers.

Thanks,

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

Three subjects of interest

KathyHowe — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:12:11 -0600

I love the Room of Your Own idea but I don't know that I have the time to put together any presentations for them. That said I do have three topics that are of interest to me. Are these being covered in the primary conference or is someone interested in taking them on in Room of Your Own?

They are...

1. Cyberstalking
2. Protecting your identity
3. Dealing with HATERS in your comments box

KathyHowe
Kazoofus

A ROYO about Women Bloggers and Disability

Ryn Tales — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:40:03 -0600

The Blogosphere is one of the places where having a disability is not immediately apparent. Where descrimination may exist at first sight, blogging is a free space that is unbiased. There are so many great blogs out there by disabled persons and parents of disabled kids that shed light on what it really means to live with a disability and what it doesn't. I would love a room of your own discussing disability and how blogging allows people, who have been denied access to more traditional venues, to get heard.
Kathryn
Link Text

Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R.Tolkien

Stay tuned for Day Two

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:56:43 -0600

I think you might be pleased with a couple of the sessions on the schedule. Not to be all cryptic or anything, but...I'm being cryptic :)

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

What is the Room of Your Own?

Elisa Camahort — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:10:29 -0600

One of BlogHer's guiding principles is that this is a do-ocracy. If you want something to happen, then do it yourself!

That principle led us to introduce a concept at least year's BlogHer called the Room of Your Own session. Last year Lisa described it in this post. Here's a key excerpt:

How do you subvert the dominant hierarchy?

You give up control. That's one of the things I want to do at BlogHer's July 30 conference.

Here's how: Welcome to "The Room of Your Own" a part of BlogHer's conference run by, for and of women attending.

Why? Because being audacious enough to suggest we hold this thing, doesn't mean I think I know what you want. So the room of your own is a testament to BlogHer's mission to community-based education and exposure.

Yes, we're still planning a full conference with speakers and trainers and an uber-schedule. But in this way, BlogHer is a do-ocracy. As in do-it-yourself. Is there something you want to talk about at BlogHer's Conference '05? Do it! Do it here. Tell the community and they'll come. Or help!

The Room of Your Own concept proved to be so popular that we had to reserve a second room for Room of Your Own sessions. Some of last year's most popular sessions were put on by the community, including sessions about MommyBlogging, Teen blogging and feminist hip-hop blogging.

Room of Your Own sessions have the same infrastructure as any other session: power, WiFi, strong coffee. Room of Your Own sessions are promoted the same as any other session in all Conference schedules and communications. Room of Your Own sessions are the embodiment of the BlogHer mission!

We have six open Room of Your Own slots, and we are taking proposals now!