The most important purpose of the conference is to share knowledge.
The conference will promote intellectual, social, and cultural
development of the blogging community by bringing bloggers of color
together. Blogging While Brown
is an opportunity to meet other bloggers and blog readers of color for
the first time, discuss current issues of interest to bloggers of
color, network with individuals and organizations interested in
leveraging online activity with offline results, and learn about the
latest technology that will assist bloggers with publishing their work
and improving their readers experience by fully engaging in the newest
media technology.
Three Conference Tracks
Track No. 1 - From the Screens to the Streets: News, Politics, and Social Justice-
This track will feature sessions related to blogging about current
events, activism, and bloggers who are leveraging their online
resources to get offline results.
Track No. 2 - Blogging Building Blocks-This
conference track will feature sessions related to the nuts and bolts of
blogging such as technology, blogging widgets, the business of
blogging, monetizing blogs, increasing blog traffic, legal issues,
design, layout and improving the reader experience.
Track No. 3 - The Blogs of Our Lives-This
conference track will feature sessions related to entertainment,
gossip, lifestyle and social networking, how not to get sued, artist
promotion, and the blogs that are our favorite guilty pleasures.
