Start here: Announcing BlogHer Conference '05, July 30 in Santa Clara, CA

Great news! BlogHer Conference '05 is Saturday, July 30 at TechMart in Santa Clara, California.

It's been a crazy month since we all started blogging this idea. I never anticipated how many terrific people would want to get this thing off the ground. Thanks for the encouragement--now here comes the work, individually and together.

Here's the game plan to get you here, written in the royal "we" to reflect the great input of BlogHer's advisors and many friends. I recommend you get your plans made so you can get to the good stuff, such as "How to be naked," "BlogHer Debate" and "Do-ocracy"...

• Start here: Announcement (see immediately below)
• Mission
• Conference schedule
• Registration
• Logistics (Hotels, airports, etc.)
• Volunteers (Scholarships!)
• Sponsors

Announcement: BlogHer Conference '05 to be held July 30, 2005, TechMart Meeting Center, Santa Clara, CA

Where are the women bloggers? We're right here. . . www.blogher.org 

This flagship event is open to all bloggers—including men and beginners—interested in enhancing their online exposure, learning the latest best practices in blogging, networking with other bloggers, and specifically cultivating the female blogging community.

BlogHer Conference '05 will provide an open, inclusive forum to:

1. Discuss the role of women within the larger blog community
2. Examine the developing (and debatable) code of blogging ethics
3. Discover how blogging is shrinking the world and amplifying the voices of women worldwide

In addition, educational tracks will be available focusing on...more available after this link:

1. Best technology practices, newbie to advanced: how to use technology and tools to achieve text, photo, audio and video blogging goals
2. Best industry-specific practices: Why are journalists, marketers, lawyers, academics, technologists and many more blogging? And how do you find the ones you're interested in?
3. The rights and the responsibilities of the blogger

BlogHer Conference '05 will be the first of its kind, an opportunity for the female blogging community to meet in person. It will set the agenda for future BlogHer networking and enhance women's influence in the blog community.

The event will include onsite mixers and informal meet-ups for attendees seeking to network in their areas of interest. BlogHer will even set aside a "Room of Your Own" to enable attendees to form impromptu sessions. A pre-event mixer will be held in close proximity to the conference site the evening before. Also, BlogHer will designate space for vendor demonstrations, where bloggers can explore which solutions work best for their needs.

For more information on BlogHer Conference '05, including lodging options and registration information, visit BlogHer online: www.blogher.org

Next steps:

Mission

Conference schedule

Registration

Logistics (Hotels, airports, etc.)

Volunteers (Scholarships!)

Sponsors

Comments

[temps]

Discrimination starts with the separation of the human beings!

[Lisa Stone aka Surfette]

Hi Enoch,

Great idea -- thanks for blogging it so your colleagues can catch wind of the invite.

Hey temps,

Not sure what you're implying, but as I've posted ad nauseum, men are very much welcome.

[Ashley]

Blogger doesn't support Trackback, so I thought I'd let you know I've mentioned the conference on my site.

[Elisa Camahort]

Thanks Ashley.

[Josia]

What an incredible IDEA!! If I didn't have a baby I would definitely fly in from Israel! Please let me know if there is any way of participating virtually. It's the women of the world who are the true movers and shakers - enjoy the conference!

P.S. My kabbalah blog is dedicated to women who want to wake up to a better world:
http://kabbalah4women.blogspot.com/

[Elisa Camahort]

Josia, there are a couple ideas:

1. we are lining up foreign language speakers who would be willing to translate the post-conference recaps from all of our Bloghership recipients into their language and post. We would then post on BlogHer and link to you. Are able to translate into Hebrew or any other language and would you be willing to. (Be warned, I don't think it will be a tiny task.)

2. We are still working out whether we will have live audio streaming.

[Improbulus]

Sorry to duplicate but to try to catch people who might not make it to the dedicated page for other meetups... I've just put up a a speculative post to see if there's any interest in a parallel meet in London on 30 or 31 July? And if there's any offer of a venue, ideally with a broadband connection? See http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/06/blogher-bloggers-conference-in-london.html

Cheers
Imp.

[Prissy Patriot]

Wonderful idea! We are the key to a peaceful 21st Century, ladies!
Did you know women are receiving more Bachelor degrees than men these days?
Twenty years from now, the world will be ours.
Prissy loves kind men, but they are not presently the ones running the world.
The representatives we are stuck with will not stand up for the people-only corporations and Prissy is fed up! Send your reps PrissyBalls and tell them to get some more!
Check them out (or make your own, if you're handy) at Prissy's Place-Please don't hesitate to add Prissy to your blog roll!
http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com

[Lisa Stone]

Thanks Prissy! You're on - now, would you mind hiking on over to the politics session comment (here) and putting a few questions to our panel for July 30?

[Renee Sereno]

I wish I would've known about BlogHer before it happened. I was already in the area, checked in at the Crowne Plaza in nearby Milpitas, CA. Then again, we already had tickets for "Day Out With Thomas" at Roaring Camp Railroad for the 30th, and my kids would've refused to talk to me for days had I opted out.

Please let me know of other EB's among women bloggers in Northern California. I live in Modesto, CA. I have been blogging since November 2002, and now maintain six blogs. My main blog, "The Prada Mama Chronicles" (definitely a Mommy blog) can be found at http://pradamama.pansitan.net.