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Welcome to the liveblog of the BlogHer Food '10 panel "Voice - The Value of Building Community."
Here's the description:
No blog is an island; some level of community exists in every corner of the Internet, on every niche blog. But if that community isn’t continually nurtured and maintained, can it thrive? Let’s talk about supporting and giving voice to your community, and how it’s beneficial to you as the community organizer and to the overall food blogging community. Elise Bauer, already running her leading food blog, created the Food Blog Alliance. Considered an expert at growing by giving back, Elise moderates a discussion with Kristen Doyle, from Dine and Dish, who also launched the Adopt a Blogger program and the group food photography site, Culinary Snapshot, Ree Drummond from The Pioneer Woman who started her own online community, Tasty Kitchen and Alaina Browne, founder and General Manager of group blog Serious Eats. They'll discuss the hows and whys of building your community. You may feel like your blog keeps you plenty busy on its own, but there's no denying the power and value of giving your community a bigger voice.
Your liveblogger is Denise. Check back during the panel (2:30pm - 3:45pm October 9) for the liveblog!
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Welcome everyone!
This session is about community: What do you mean by community? What does it mean to create and nurture a community around our food blogs?
AB: Serious Eats will be 4 in December and is a food blog and community - one of the things we've done is community was always planned to be part of what we do. When we launched, we thought about creating a cocktail party type of experience. A bunch of people having small conversations and co-mingling. We aren't the experts, our community is the expert. We want to make sure we're listening to them. We have a combo forum/group blog so the community can start conversations. Also an area where people can share their photos. We are always looking for ways to expand our community and make sure we listen to them.
KD: We match new bloggers with bloggers who've been writing for a year or more. When you're new to food blogging you need to have a tribe to turn to when you have questions. It launched as a brand new site. We expanded beyond food to craft, design & lifestyle. If you know something, you should share it instead of holding it back. The more you share the more you personally gain. Culinary Snapshot allows people to share their wisdom and allows others to learn from them.
RD: I started Pioneer Woman in 2006 on a whim and slowly worked my way into posting recipes in my daily life on the ranch. After awhile I started realizing people on my site also had recipes they wanted to share. So I wanted to start a site and launched Tasty Kitchen in 2009 - I call it a happy level recipe site. Everyone posts their favorites and things that work.
EB: I started simply recipe in 2003. I also have Food Blog Alliance where food bloggers have written how-tos. I'm not very good at moderating stuff, so it's a little slow. Now I'm sending folks to Jaden's foodblog forum. I created food blog search too because I like to highlight other food bloggers when I'm writing.
RD: I wanted to highlight recipes of people who read my site but I also wanted to make it attractive for food bloggers to share their recipes. They can post their text only recipe and link back to their site. Like Elise, I'm happiest when I'm able to give people a chance to show their best work.
EB: When I think of community I think of "this" (the room) my foodblogger communities. What is the difference in your mind between a reader community and an audience?
AB: An audience is a one way conversation. Yuu're talking and others are taking it in but community implies a two way conversation. The web is inherently community friendly as opposed to magazines, with the exception of letters to the editor. Online you have comments and links. Passive members who are just reading and you don't know they are there. Community members are visible and talking = to you and each other.
EB: Do you promote and encourage conversation between members?
AB: We do we
