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For the final two BlogHer 06 sessions I plan on attending tomorrow(I’m exhausted just thinking about all the stuff I’m going to learn):

• Video:

For the beginning or new user. We’re bringing back Video Goddess Ryanne Hodson, along with Zadi Diaz, to help you walk away ready to add video posts to your blog.

• Design/Style/Customization:

Want to make your blog your own? DIY or pay? And what’s reasonable in time & money? Miriam Verburg and Tiffany Brown walk you thru it, plus stylesheets (CSS) and how they work.

So don’t be shy — if there’s anything you want me to ask, leave a comment.

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Continuing with my idea of posting about the sessions I plan on attending on Day One of BlogHer ‘06, here are two more:

• Audio/Podcasting

Instructors will be on hand to serve all user levels. Beginners will create & post an audio entry with Susan Kitchens. Advanced users will get hands-on instruction and interactive Q&A about advanced techniques, plus best practices in promotion and distribution from Nicole Simon and Anita Campbell.

• Audience Building

Elise Bauer talks traffic: how to build it, how to understand your site statistics, how to optimize your site to build search engine traffic, how to use syndication and subscriptions to build recurring traffic…the works!

We’ll see what I learn. Don’t hesitate to give me your questions to ask at the sessions.

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m at BlogHer ‘06, and I want to write about the sessions I plan on attending at BlogHer. That way, anyone who reads this before the session can give me a question they’d like me to ask for them.

The first workshop session I plan on attending on Friday July 28 is called So, You Have This Crazy Idea. As it says in the session description:

You want to start a community-based blog site, but aren’t sure where to start. Melanie Morgan, Nancy White, Susannah Gardner & Lauren Gelman are among those who will help you examine what’s out there, define what you can do differently, and create a plan to develop content, promote your efforts and watch your back….

This session is a how-to from a bigger-picture and more holistic perspective. How to tame a crazy idea, find out if it’s worth pursuing, figure out how-to pursue it, and pursue it with confidence. We have lined up four women who are uniquely qualified to help you do just that.

I plan on picking up some tips on blogs that center around a community of practice or interest. That can be an actual physical community, such as New York City, or it can be a community of practice such as lawyers, programmers, even bloggers.

Aside from learning more about community-based blogs, I expect that I’ll pick up some good tips on fostering community that would apply to any blog.

So if anyone has any questions they’d like me to ask, leave a comment here and I’ll try to get them answered.

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