BlogHer 2008 Annual Conference

FAQs=Frequently Asked Questions, and we’ve lined up a team of expert bloggers who know how explain the basics across many blogging platforms, protocols and philosophies. Do you have questions about the best tools? The right design? The latest in blogging “etiquette”? Look no further than these 4 kindly experts to give you the answers: Nelly Yusupova from WebGrrls Int’l, Melanie Nelson (aka Chilihead from Blogging Basics 101), Michele Mitchell (aka Scribbit) and
Shazia Mistry.

 

 How We Communicate: FAQs for Beginning Bloggers [38:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hopefully our panel on why you should get involved with open source will leave you convinced you want to get started…like yesterday. If so, this panel will take it to the next step: We’ll take a look at some very popular open source blogging platforms and show you how to start contributing to the projects…and how to get more involved as you go along. Angie Byron will be on hand to cover Drupal. And Automattic’s “Happiness Engineer”, Marianne Masculino, will cover WordPress.

 

 How We Communicate: Open Source Participation: How to advance to the next level [76:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author, blogger and photographer Me Ra Koh is on hand to share as much as she can in her allotted session time. On the theory that fewer subjects with more focus is preferred we’ve actually got a thread up at BlogHer where we’re asking for you to vote on which aspects of photography you’d like Me Ra to focus on. Come on over and share your opinion or at least cast your vote.

 

 How We Communicate: Photography [68:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Elise Bauer is back to give one of the most requested sessions…Building Traffic. Elise focuses on content and community, with a dash of technology know-how thrown in for good measure. The space keeps evolving, and so does Elise’s presentation, so whether you’ve seen it before or not, you’ll find new things to learn.

 

 How We Communicate: Building Traffic via Content and Community [66:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download