The Blogging While Brown Conference which has harvested a community of the most widely respected bloggers from across the country is scheduled to be held this July 8-9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. According to the official Blogging While Brown website, “The purpose of Blogging While Brown is to give Bloggers of Color an opportunity to meet each other for the first time, discuss current issues affecting Bloggers of Color, and learn about the latest technology that will assist them with publishing their work.”
Aminah Hanan, Program Director for the 2011 conference described how this year’s panelists were selected. “We had everyone who was interested in leading a panel submit a proposal and we had the blogosphere vote on the panels they wanted to attend. We announced the selected panelists on our website.”
Selected panelists will cover a variety of widely debated topics which will offer guidance to up and coming bloggers. Here is a sampling of the valuable information bloggers will be exposed to at the conference.
Get in Where you Fit in! How to Find Your Niche – Jewel Figueras
Keeping Your Authentic Voice When The Noise Gets Too Loud – Yvelette Stines
Sass-tivism!: How Black Women Are Changing the World on Twitter – “Dr. Goddess,” Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D.
Infusing Traditional PR Methods with Social Media – Pam Perry & Karen Taylor Bass
From a Side Hustle to a Career – Andrea Amir
The Conference’s administrative team hopes that this year’s program will be well attended by savvy sisters and brothers who understand how valuable the blogging medium is. “Today’s bloggers are often leaders in their field,” Hanan explained. “Bloggers are the new voice of what’s happening.”
Hanan, who attended her first Blogging While Brown Conference in 2009, said her career benefited from her first attendance. “I sat next to the creator of Blogging While Brown, Gina McCauley, and I had a chance to interview her. From that brief interview we connected through twitter and facebook and kept in touch and when she needed help with a blog she was running that chronicled the lifestyle and whereabouts of our First Lady Michelle Obama, she thought of me. Of course I took the position and from there I was invited to become Managing Editor of Michelle Obama Watch.”
“It’s great to attend conferences and meet other leaders and press the flesh,” Hanan commented. “You never know how your career will be transformed.”
Registration for the conference is now open. The registration fee is set at $199 and tickets will be available for purchase until May 9, 2011. Visit http://www.bloggingwhilebrown.com/ for more information, pictures and testimonials.