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BlogHer Audiocast #8: Blogging for Business

Next in the series of BlogHer Conference '05 session discussions published by IT Conversations, our audio partner, is:

BlogHer Audiocast #8: Blogging for Business

The Blogging for Business discussion was moderator-free (due to a last-minute emergency) and audience participation-heavy. The discussion featured 3 Business BlogHers with great stories to tell, Susan Getgood, Sun Microsystem Blog Diva Mary Smaragdis and Stonyfield Yogurt blogger Christine Halvorson.

From the IT Conversations recording description:

The speakers in this panel represent companies from small and non-technical to large and computer-related, from non-profit to for-profit, and they discuss aspects of business blogging from the corporate culture required to make business blogging successful to the various reasons that drive companies to blog successfully and the sorts of tools that can help make a business's blog more successful.

As always: if you want to be automatically notified when IT Conversations uploads each BlogHer '05 session recording, you can subscribe to an RSS feed to the series here.

BlogHer Audiocast #7: Legal Tips: What You Can Get Away With

Next in the series of BlogHer Conference '05 session discussions published by IT Conversations, our audio partner, is:

BlogHer Audiocast #7: Legal Tips: What You Can Get Away With

Law.com content director Jennifer Collins led Lauren Gelman and Wendy Seltzer in a discussion of copyright...your and other writers'.

From the IT Conversations recording description:

This discussion offers resources for bloggers who want to use content legally and protect their own work.

As always: if you want to be automatically notified when IT Conversations uploads each BlogHer '05 session recording, you can subscribe to an RSS feed to the series here.

BlogHer Audiocast #6: Blog Design...grab 'em by the eyeballs!

Next in the series of BlogHer Conference '05 session discussions published by IT Conversations, our audio partner, is:

BlogHer Audiocast #6: Blog Design

Lynda Keeler and Gina Hughes, talk about how even in a world of RSS, blog design still matters.

From the IT Conversations recording description:

The other participants in this session offer examples from their own experience of design pitfalls and successes. Whether you want to do it all yourself, or need tips on how to hire a designer, this session offers information for bloggers wanting to revitalize the look of their sites.

As always: if you want to be automatically notified when IT Conversations uploads each BlogHer '05 session recording, you can subscribe to an RSS feed to the series here.

Diversity among legal bloggers?

Women make a strong showing in the legal blogging world, as Monica Bay and I (wearing my Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs hat) said on an audiocast aired by the Legal Talk Network this morning. If you listen in, you'll also hear that we discussed a number of familiar issues--albeit all too briefly--that I believe affect women attorneys and attorneys of color. Monica writes:

"You might be surprised that Lisa...and I both agreed that there are plenty o' women out there in the blawgosphere -- But you probably won't be surprised that we both feel an important issue is that mainstream media tend to ignore us and focus on the white males when citing our commentaries. (Lisa points to the coverage of Harriet Mier's nomination to the Supremes.)" [Here's the story by Ari Shapiro I mentioned - LS]

Hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams also interviewed Attorney Sean Carter, who blogs Lawpsided. Carter is a smart, funny man -- who took it well when I disagreed with him that the blogosphere is colorblind. I also went out on a limb and shared the very specific, private feedback I've gotten from some women attorneys who tried to balance the partner track, motherhood and blogging--and blogging lost. For the record, I've also spoken with two men who head up legal blogs who have tried to recruit women attorneys to blog with them and haven't had much success. Email me if you're interested.

During the interview, the opportunity arose to mention a number of legal BlogHers, including Denise Howell and Cathy Kirkman, so I took it. Monica added Carolyn Elefant's name. I also recommended an exciting new entry in the legal blogging world, Blackprof, featuring professors Dorothy Roberts, Sherrilyn Ifill, Adrien Wing and Tracey Meares. (Hrmmm, given the conversational turn toward private practice, I didn't mention BlogHer's other academic blawggers, Lauren Gelman and Wendy Seltzer. Did I miss anyone else?)

Kudos to Williams and Ambrogi for investing air-time on the topic of diversity and blawgging. At the end of the interview, Williams offers to review and consider linking anyone who write to him here. I urge you take him up on it! And, as always, your thoughts are valuable -- I welcome the opportunity to continue the discussion here.

Update: Thank you  Kimberly Kralowec, blawgger of The UCL Practitioner, for emailing me these comments:

Hi Lisa, I read your BlogHer post about women law bloggers with interest.  Pls. don't forget about my law blog!  (I recently moved it to a new address, http://www.uclpractitioner.com .)  In my post about BlogHer (which is still over at my old site) I observed that it does appear that there are fewer women law bloggers than men.  http://17200blog.blogspot.com/2005/07/blogher-2005.html   My current blogroll of California law bloggers includes 3 women (Denise Howell, Cathy Kirkman, and Beth Grimm), 4 anonymous, and the rest men.  Adding my blog, that makes 4 women blogging about the law in California.  And certainly, your blog for law.com should be added to the list.  I'm still cogitating about whether this is something that we should be concerned about.

BlogHer Audiocast #5: Flame, Blame & Shame

Next in the series of BlogHer Conference '05 session discussions published by IT Conversations, our audio partner, is:

BlogHer Audiocast #5: Flame, Blame & Shame

Liza Sabater moderates a panel including Debi (aka Mobile) Jones, Ellen Spertus and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, exploring the down sie of letting it all hang out on the web. (Original audio recorded by Susan Kitchens.)

From the IT Conversations recording description:

The panel discusses whether men and women react differently to flames and whether gender even matters. They talk about ways to create a respectful dialogue with readers, whether there is a constructive place for anger and how to set boundaries. This lively discussion offers opinions, examples and solutions to the downside of open conversation in the blogosphere.

As always: if you want to be automatically notified when IT Conversations uploads each BlogHer '05 session recording, you can subscribe to an RSS feed to the series here.

BlogHer Audiocast #4: Suffragette Journalists

Next in the series of BlogHer Conference '05 session discussions published by IT Conversations, our audio partner, is:

BlogHer Audiocast #4: Suffragette Journalists

Lisa Stone moderates a panel including Anastasia Goodstein, Chris Nolan and Evelyn Rodriguez, exploring how the media changes when we can all be the media. (Original audio recorded by Susan Kitchens.)

From the IT Conversations recording description:

The panel addresses the different types of online journalism and offers concrete tips for bloggers who want to become more involved in traditional media. Recent examples of breaking news around the world demonstrate the power of blogging as a way of sharing information and this discussion opens the door for interested bloggers to become more active and have their voices heard more widely.

BTW: if you want to be automatically notified when IT Conversations uploads each BlogHer '05 session recording, you can subscribe to an RSS feed to the series here.

BlogHer Audiocasts: BlogHer attendees at PodTech.net

As you might have noticed Jon Furrier of PodTech.net had a station set up in the atrium at TechMart during BlogHer, and he was having more informal chats with BlogHers throughout the day. Everything they said could and is being used against them, as he is now posting those audiocasts on his site!

The first two up are:

Halley Suitt and Kaliya Hamlin

Mena Trott

The session audiocasts can help those who weren't there get the value from the BlogHer program. These audio casts can help you feel even more like you were really there.

BlogHer Audiocasts: #2, #3 and an audible "feast"

The crew at ITConversations has been busy producing more audiocasts of BlogHer sessions--as has a program that taped a conversation about BlogHer with Amy Gahran and Koan Bremner. Read on:

BlogHer Audiocast #2: Debate -- Play by today's rules or change the game?

Hear the debate between Charlene Li and Halley Suitt that launched a million posts -- see here, here, here, here, here and here for starters. (Original audio recorded by Susan Kitchens.)

BlogHer Audiocast #3: Audio and Video Blogging

Learn. This. Now. Master Lisa Williams and Ryanne Hodson deliver an outstanding how-to. (Original audio recorded by Koan Bremner.)

And a "feast for your eyes and ears..."

Koan Bremner announces today that:

"The interview for KGNU which Amy Gahran and I did back at the beginning of August (and which I previously wrote about here and here) has finally made it into the "On The Internets" podcast!"

The sound quality is fantastic. More here.

BlogHer Audiocast #1: How to Get Naked

If you weren't in Santa Clara with us on July 30, I have good news: Now you can listen to the "naked ladies" yourself.

I'm happy to properly introduce two recordings of "How To Get Naked," the standing-room-only BlogHer session featuring Heather Armstrong, Ronni Bennett and Koan Bremner, and moderated by Jory Des Jardins.  Their conversation was held in Santa Clara, California, July 30, 2005, and was recorded by both Koan and Susan Kitchens. Koan immediately uploaded her version. Then ITConversations took Susan's audio and glossied it up. Here are the links:

• ITConversations: How to Get Naked, (19.3 MB, runtime: 42 minutes, 7 seconds)
• Koan Bremner: How to Get Naked, (10.9 MB, runtime: 47 minutes 42 seconds) That Koan managed to record anything while appearing in the hot seat as a panelist is pretty amazing!

Stay tuned, as Doug and the talented Team ITC turn out one new recording a week for the next half-year. (You may sign up for their feed of the latest Blogher audiocasts here.) Our goal in working with ITConversations is to emancipate the BlogHer conversation from a single linear day and spread the word. That's a specialty of Doug's -- see my post from July.

So thanks ITC. Again, I must note that their work is made possible by BlogHer's audio volunteers: Elise Bauer (she of many blogs), Jarah Euston, Koan Bremner and Susan Kitchens. Roll  ITC credits:

Description editor: Darusha Wehm

Session recorded by: Susan Kitchens

Post-production audio engineer: Bruce Sharpe

Series producer: Cori Schlegel

BlogHer's best friend at ITC: Doug Kaye

P.S. A separate and special thank you to everyone who has sent me links to your video and audio of the event. Keep 'em coming!