BlogHer Conference - Day One

It's day one of BlogHer in San Jose and Patsi and I are excited to be here and meeting some of our wonderful blogging colleagues whom we've only previously know virtually.

We've met Yvonne Divita, Anita Campbell, Phil Hollows (Feedblitz), Susannah Gardner and Toby Bloomberg, so far.  That's quite a line up of powerful women in the blogosphere. 

The first session we attened was on Community blogging which is not my primary interest, but I wanted to meet Susannah (you may remember she was a guest on Conversations with Experts last year, and I hired her company to do the website for one of my clients, Mani's Bakery Cafe).  The session was sponsored by Blurb and I really wanted to meet Eileen Gittens, the CEO, because we've been on conversation with them for a year about getting in on the beta test of their blog slurping software for creating books, for our Blog to Book Project participants.  We were glad to hear that the project is going beta in 2 weeks.

Next was lunch and keynote with Caterina Fake, developer of Flickr and Meg Hourihan, whose company developed Blogger, before it was sold to Google.  The topic was "What's Next?" but I don't think it was addressed too well.  Though the discussion was good about their role as women in a field dominated by men and how women have influenced social media and social software like blogs and file sharing apps like Flickr.

Finally, I attended a session with Anita Campbell about podcast marketing.

The next session is about to start so it's time to sign off.  Should I go to Video blogging, blog design, how to make money with your blog, or a session about tagging? 

More later...

Comments

[Toby]

A highlight of my first Day at BlogHer was meeting the Blog Squad in person!

[Jessica Duquette]

it was great seeing you ladies at the BlogHer Conference. The sessions were a bit of a let-down, particularly day 1, but the networking and connections and photo ops (I got one with the venerable Guy Kawasaki!) couldn't be beat.