Announcing v1 of BlogHer '06's Day Two Schedule

Thanks for the detailed description of the process. It is informative.

It's a tall order to develop a schedule of sessions that offer engagement to all of the varieties, interests and skill levels that exist among women. I was looking for meta level conversations and questions that cut across those interests, or are faced by bloggers of all ilks. But if that's not what you're hearing from the community then I guess it's says more about my individual, and perhaps unique desires and expectations. I'm sure that the gathering will be equally engergizing for attendees drawn to these sessions as last year's lineup was.

Debi Jones
Contributing Editor, Blogging and Social Media ( http://www.blogher.com/topic/blogging-social-media )
Feed your mobile jones ( http://www.mobilejones.com )

Day Two's schedule is based on a few things:

-Last year's survey...what people liked, didn't like, missed etc. We asked questions in the survey both on sessions we offered, and about sessions we should have offered.

-All the blogging and email feedback that has been pouring out of the BlogHer community since last year. We have tagged and read every single post we could find about it. You can find my personal tags at my del.icio.us account ( http://del.icio.us/ElisaCam/bloghercon ).

-Splitting the schedule into two days, and focusing Day One on technical subjects allowed us to focus Day Two on the culture and function of blogging. We priced the conference so that people could go to individual days or both days...thus giving more people more flexibility.

-Finally: we are driven to offer new subjects with new voices. One of the most common things BlogHers cite as something they don't like about conferences they've been to is "the same people talking about the same things." You have to balance, of course, between that and the fact that people also like to see some names they've heard of on a schedule before buying their ticket, and of course you will never be done talking about many blogging subjects, but we want to talk about different issues...not only different than other conferences, but different than last year's BlogHer.

That's a lengthy answer, but I wanted to give you an idea of the kind of process that went into planning both days.

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

Just out of curiousity, what is the basis for the schedule on Day Two? It is a reflection of responses to last year's survey? Or something else?

Debi Jones
Contributing Editor, Blogging and Social Media ( http://www.blogher.com/topic/blogging-social-media )
Feed your mobile jones ( http://www.mobilejones.com )

Looks fabulous! I can't wait! Well, actually I can, because I have SO much to do between now and then.

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Liz Henry
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
http://liz-henry.blogspot.com

Now THAT sounds like a very interesting day two! How to choose? How to choose? lol Can't wait to see what BlogHers come up with for ROYOs.

~Jenn Satterwhite~

Mommy Needs Coffee ( http://mommyneedscoffee.com ) | Mommybloggers ( http://mommybloggers.com )
BlogHer Contributing Editor, Mommy and Family ( http://209.59.186.51/~blogher/?q=blog/jenn-satterw... )