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During the First Break Out Session on Saturday, July 19th, I have the honor of hosting the Home and Garden Birds of a Feather Meet-Up. I want to make this session special for both the attendees and anyone who blogs these topics. So, I am bringing my video camera so I can tape the session and share it with you all. I hope to structure the session like a interview getting the best tips and ideas from the attendees in this very special place.
To do this best, I need two things from you, the BlogHer community:
#1. Will you be there? If you are planning/hoping to make this BOF session, please leave your name and blog link in the comments. We'd all like to know a bit about you beforehand and it will help us all with:
#2. What questions do you want me to ask these bloggers?
I can always begin with the general questions:
- How long have you doing XXX?
- What attracted you to it?
- Why choose to blog about it?
- Do you have tips for taking photos?
- An under-appreciated source you'd like to share?
- A list of favorite reference books?
- Whose blogs do you read?
- Do you have a favorite post?
Do you want some down-and-dirty specifics?
I know if someone like Grace Bonney of Design Sponge were sitting in the session I would ask her about the trends in home design, if "eco friendly" is driving new design decisions, and if there are really different design aesthetics across the country?
Then there are the Home Makers. We could all use any time-management tricks, cleaning tips, and how to make a place filled with love on today's budget.Is that enough?
Are these the questions you'd ask any "Home" blogger? What else would you want to know?
Let's not overlook the gardeners.
I know if someone like Andrea Bellamy from Heavy Petal were to join us, I'd want to know the best tales of guerilla gardening, tips on green gardening, and how to deal with my insect-ridden houseplants. (it appears she would recommend Botani-Wipes).
This year, with high energy prices driving costs through the roof, with strange weather making gardens either too wet or too dry, do you have questions about gardening to save your food budget? How to deal with the weather challenges? Perhaps how to best preserve the flowers, herbs and foods that we grow?
Genie, The Inadvertent Gardener, hopes to be at the session. With a history in Iowa, her recent move to the bay area, her experience with bunnies (go read this, garden humor writing is so rare!) and her admitted passion for tomatoes, what would you want to ask?
(Confession: I am whispering sweet nothings to the green tomatoes in my garden: Ripen for BlogHer and you might get to meet Genie...)
So here's your chance BlogHers. If you'll be joining me, please introduce yourself below, the rest of us want to know you better.
If you can't join me but wish you could, let me be your surrogate and ask the questions you'd be asking.
Then look for the vid-cast a few weeks after BlogHer '08!
Debra Roby blogs her creative life at A Stitch in Time and her mundane life at Deb's Daily Distractions.Come talk with her at the Birds of Feather breakout session at BlogHer Con, Saturday, July 19, from 10:45 until noon.
