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Your personal to-do lists

While we work on the "mother of all to-do lists" that started yesterday at BlogHer, some of you are already posting your personal post-BlogHer to-do lists.

Ashley Richards, she of amazing Discussion Guidelines fame, kicks us off here with her Post-BlogHer To-Do List.

If you post your Post BlogHer To-Do List just trackback to this post, or if you don't do trackbacks, put the link in the Comments section.

I look forward to getting ideas from you because my head was a sieve by the end of yesterday!

For the Armchair BlogHers: The Live Blogging Notes

Many thanks to the live bloggers, who braved fast-talking panelists and moody wireless routers to provide play by plays from BlogHer. Here, a list of the panels and live blogs:

Jeff Clavier:  Blogging for Business/French translation
Tony Gentile: Advanced Tools/Women who Want to Fund, Build, & Sell Things
Nicole Johnson: MoBlogging; brownbloggers
Miriam Verburg: Feminist Hip-hop Bloggers/Developers/Teens/Globalization/RSS Queens
Ellon: Blogging 101/How to Be Naked
Jill Fallon:  Politics/$$ and Sense
Cathy Kirkman: Legal Tips/Journalism
Diane Tani: Photos!
Steve Rhodes: Photos!
Arieanna Foley: Photos!
Melissa Gira: How to Be Naked/Audio&Video
Nancy Tubbs:  Advanced Tools/Blogging for Business
Tricia:  Design/Women Who Fund, Build & Sell Things
Rene: Video!
Beth Kanter:  Advanced Tools/Social Events
Donna Mills: Politics/MommyBlogging

Stephanie Alford: Teens/Blogs in Academia

Ms. Heathervescent also chronicled our inaugural event

Many thanks to Mir Verburg, the Live-Blogger-in-Chief, for coordinating, training, troubleshooting, and making this happen.

In addition, our volunteer audio recorders were corralled into being full-on A/V techs for the sessions, probably more than they bargained for! They are: Elise Bauer Jarah Euston Koan Bremner Susan Kitchens Thanks to them too, and look for the recordings of full-sessions to come.

"This is a conference that the community built"

Asked to sum up BlogHer Conference '05 for The San Francisco Chronicle's page one story yesterday, co-Founder Elisa Camahort said, "This is a conference that the community built."  (Read Carrie Kirby's story here).

Brilliant woman. Here's some (further) proof below. I rolled out of bed this morning to a mind-boggling 1,000+ photos and hundreds of your posts and have been giggling, exclaiming and, frankly, tearing up ever since. Here's a starter list of links to your writing for your recommendations and improvements:

• Trackbacks to yesterday's session schedule (45 thus far)
• Newsfeeds for BlogHers (Here's how to add the BlogHerRoll to your blog, as requested by many yesterday)
• Flickr posts tagged "blogher" (also found JD Lasica's shots, courtesy of this uber-story with multiple posts and video by KRON Channel 4's Brian Shields)
• IceRocket posts tagged "blogher"
• Feedster posts tagged "blogher"
• Technorati posts tagged "blogher"

This is all the blogging I'm able to do today -- I'm digging in to read.

Thank you for the day that you created.

Tags: blogher, dailyblogher

Today is BlogHer Con '05: Track BlogHer Live Now and join our chat!!

BlogHer's 2005 conference runs from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. PDT today, and we have our live bloggers standing by to update you as it happens. Here's where to find live-blogging on the sessions you want to follow [all times are Pacific time]. You're also invited to join our all-day chat.

Step 1: Locate the session you're interested in below, and you'll see links to the live-bloggers who are covering it. Click on the Session name to get more information about that session.

Step 2: All social and networking portions of BlogHer are being blogged all day by our BlogHer-on-the-street, Beth Kanter. Check back to find out what people are saying outside the meeting rooms!

Note: All live-bloggers, and the sessions they are covering, are listed in the extended body of this post.

8:30-10:00 Morning Session
8:30-9:00: Welcome Session and Survey results: Why you say you're here and what we challenge you to accomplish
9:00-10:00: Debate: Play by today's rules, or change the game?

All live bloggers will be blogging this joint session.Complete list of live-bloggers is in the extended body of this post.
Chat about this session now

11:15-12:15 Session #1

Room 1: Political Blogging Grows Up
live-bloggers: Donna Mills and Jill Fallon
photos:Diane Tani
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Room 2: Advanced Tools
The Advanced Tools Blog
live-bloggers: Nancy Tubbs and Tony Gentile
photos:Diane Tani
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Room 3: Blogging 101
live-bloggers:Ellon
photos:Arieanna Foley
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Room 4: Feminist hip-hop bloggers
live-bloggers:
live-bloggers:mir verburg
photos:Diane Tani
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4:45-5:45 Closing Session
All live bloggers will be blogging this joint session.Complete list of live-bloggers is in the extended body of this post.
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Friday Night Kickoff Dinner: Here's the Dealio

PLEASE NOTE: The venue is booked to capacity and we cannot take any more names.

The BlogHer Kickoff Dinner will take place July 29, 6pm, at Andiamo Cafe (5220 N. First St., Alviso, CA). The super-duper pre-fixe rate for a kick-ass Mexican and/or Italian meal: $20, collected onsite at the restaurant. If you are driving yourself or cabbing it, the restaurant is about a three-minute drive from TechMart (5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara) and the Westin Santa Clara (5101 Great America Parkway,  Santa Clara). Here's a driving map. . A shuttle service will be provided from TechMart. If you want to take the shuttle, you'll need to meet us in the lobby of Techmart between 5:30 and 5:45 p.m. Look for the shuttle out front.

GIVEAWAY UPDATE: Thanks to our sponsor and partner SXSW Interactive, we will be giving away a pass to the 2006 SXSW Conference at the dinner. You must be present to win!

UPDATED II: Where we'll be on Friday night

UPDATED: ARRGGGH: Perhaps somewhere in this lengthy post I should have seen fit to mention that the cost is $20 per person, collected at the door...hence the no-host description above. Sorry! Carry on.

Out of Lisa, Jory and me, I'm the one with the South Bay cred, so when it came time to plan Friday night's no-host BlogHer dinner, I knew I wanted to bring us all together some place off the beaten path...casual, informal, unpretentious. Somewhere conducive to conversations...and maybe even to raucousness. Somewhere affordable, given the no-host nature of the evening.

More than half of our attendees are from outside the Silicon Valley, but I wanted to give them a different kind of Silicon Valley experience.

So with Maria's help I think we've secured just the place. And even lined up some entertainment!

Read on for more (words and pictures)...

Coming soon: BlogHer audiocasts

An amazing crew of volunteers has stepped forward to record most of BlogHer's 20 sessions this Saturday.

Huge thanks to BlogHer's on-site audio producers: Elise Bauer (she of many blogs), Jarah Euston, Koan Bremner and Susan Kitchens (who gave the BlogHer hermoticon a cunning wardrobe change, as depicted in the graphic to the left). If you are in Santa Clara at the conference Saturday, please join me in nagging everyone to talk into the microphones. <Smile. Repeat. Louder if necessary.> It's the only way to make the most of your commentary -- and the time and effort donated by our beloved audiogeeks.

After the conference, these women will copy their audio files twice, and send one copy to Doug Kaye. Doug, to say the least, knows a little something about audio. He has volunteered the help of his company, ITConversations, to whip these recordings into the kind of superb production values for which Doug and team are known.

"Get ready," Doug told me in a recent phone conversation. "How many people are coming to BlogHer? 270? You'll be amazed by how much farther your conference travels in audio."

Thank you Doug!

Wondering about the second copy if the audio files? That copy comes to me. While we're waiting for ITConversation's sublime sounds, I'll see what I can do with some tools newly at my disposal. If you'd like to help me roll out snippets of BlogHer, I invite you to volunteer in the comments below. I'll get in touch with you in August. Thanks.

More on the Advanced Tools session: putting it into ACTION!

I am so torn over which sessions to attend, but the one session I probably need to attend more than any other is the Advanced Tools session , led by Alexandra Samuel, George Oates and Marnie Webb.

You may or may not know that we have been quite adamantly devoted to being more about the walk than the talk. Most sessions won't involve projectors and formal presentations slides, for example. The instructional sessions, like the Advanced Tools session, are a notable exception.

But what I love is that A, G & M (hey, I go by E all the time, so I figure I can save my typing fingers and call them by their initials!) may be using a projector, but to show you Advanced Tools in action, not just talk about it.

To that end the Advanced Tools team have set up a blog to be used for the session (and beyond.) Alex explains more here:

"We hope that BlogHer attendees will contribute their own blog posts, Flickr photos, del.icio.us links and other goodies by tagging them powerbloghers. Don’t worry about whether your links are specifically about power blogging; start by adding your own blog, your photo, or anything else you think is interesting that other people might want to check out."

You know, this session seems to capture the integration of the three primary prongs of the BlogHer Mission: Education, Exposure and Community very well. Read on for more from Alex:

Global chatroom for BlogHer: 7.30.05, 2 pm - 2 am GMT

Why you don't have to be at BlogHer to be heard...

One gift of organizing BlogHer has been emails from women and men all over the world who are interested in joining the dialogue. Another has been emails of encouragement from a handful of women like Laura Scott. She never asked for anything, just kept urging us to make it happen.

When I saw with a shock the size of BlogHer's waitlist and continued to hear of global interest in these sessions, I asked Laura's advice on chat. Predictably, she's making it happen.

Laura and her business partner, Katherine Lawrence, have pulled together a day-long, password-protected chatroom for BlogHer. We considered going prehistoric uber-geek with IRC, but were worried about (a) trolls and (b) how to help a range of users from geek to newbie find the right client, especially folks on MACs. Instead, she chose a Flash7 interface (with good penetration worldwide) that'll allow her and Katherine to ban trolls. Laura's donating the whole thing through her company, pingVision.

Here's how to join in on July 30:

• Go to Laura's blog or go to the pingVision homepage
• Click on the ad for the BlogHer Global chatroom (it'll look something like the image above)
• Register (it's an easy onepager - you need to enter your name, email, password and check the box agreeing to follow the community rules) so that Laura can ban any trolls.

Would you like to help? Laura's looking for a few good chatters. If you're at BlogHer and would like to act as a chat correspondent from sessions, or if you're following our live bloggers (listed in the schedule) and can report updates, by all means, comment below or on her blog. Thanks.

Special Offer for BlogHers: Join an ad network that benefits You and BlogHer

Featured Sponsor Pheedo has been cooking up a special plan ever since they agreed to sponsor our inaugural conference, and it has now been unveiled. Pheedo has introduced the Pheedo BlogHer Ad Network.

If you host ads on either you blog or in your RSS feed, or if you have been considering it, this ad network is one way to do that, and benefit BlogHer. Pheedo has agreed to split their portion of the ad revenues with BlogHer on an ongoing basis...helping us to plan for the next BlogHer and beyond! (Locations outside Silicon Valley? 2-day conferences? More scholarships?)

I decided to give this a try on my Worker Bees blog, and rather than write a dissertation here on how it works, I can point you to two other posts if you're interested:

Start here if you want a brief run-down of how the idea was born.

But, more importantly, read this post to see how it went when I went to sign up and get a step-by-step run-down of the process.

So check it out and let us know what you think of the idea.