10. Sponsors. Sponsor Promotions. Agenda. More and more of our community are using Wordpress.
Ed Donahue and Shazia Mistry will focus on taking your blog design and layout to new heights, getting into the nuts and bolts of everything beyond basic HTML and CSS. Creating a WordPress Theme, led by Shazia Mistry Learn to create a magazine-style website with WordPress and Thematic. Thematic is a WordPress framework theme, with 13 widget-ready sidebars.
In the session we will be dismantling an existing blog - taking a close look at the WordPress tags and templates that makes up a dynamic and highly functional website. Prerequisites: Previous experience modifying WordPress themes, working knowledge of html, css, php (as it applies to WordPress development). Modifying a WordPress theme, led by Ed Donahue Take a look under the hood of your WordPress theme to take your blog to new heights. Announcing the BlogHer '10 Party Plan!! You may have already seen the BlogHer party tweets flying around, so allow me to explain this year's party plan and how it all came together.
A little background: Last year, we listened to all of the post-BlogHer '09 feedback and mulled over how to respond to it, both in the moment, and with policy changes for BlogHer '10. One of the things we committed to handle differently was BlogHer parties. So this year, as promised, we've made some changes. The only parties that will be within the conference space from Thursday to Saturday are "official" parties. Many of these are already...or are well on their way to being ... Some important details: Our recommendation: While it would be tempting to just sign up for every single party (and show up to only half because, after all: You're only human) we do encourage you to visit each party organizer site we link to below.
And now, the Official BlogHer Party Plan! Thursday, August 5th Friday, August 6th Saturday, August 7th Party on, BlogHers!
BlogHer10 Day Two Agenda. Speakers. An award-winning journalist, broadcaster, conference speaker, spokesperson and social media influencer, Jeannette Kaplun has over 18 years of experience on TV, radio, online media and as a published author. Born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Chile, Jeannette is bilingual and bicultural. In 2012 she launched her bilingual platform for women who want to look, feel and do their best, Hispana Global, with blogs and videos in Spanish and English. She's known as one of the leading Latina social media influencers in the US. In May 2012 Jeannette was invited to the White House as part of LATISM’s Top Blogueras Retreat. A UN Social Good Fellow, she has been a speaker at major conferences, including BlogHer, Blogalicious, EVO, LATISM, Blissdom, Hispanicize, Social Media Week Miami, SheStreams and SheCon.
In 2011 Jeannette won LATISM´s Best Parenting Blogger award and in 2002 was named one of the most influential Hispanic journalists by Hispanic Media 100. 10 Speaker Guidelines: The Philosophy Behind BlogHer Sessions. When planning the first BlogHer conference back in mid-2005, we knew we wanted our session format to be a bit different than the conference norms at the time.
Interactive. Engaging. Participatory. Practical. And no shilling (aka commercials or stump speeches masquerading as usable content and actionable information). We enlisted the help of a volunteer to draft our initial Speaker Guidelines and then worked with a volunteer committee to fine tune them. The Speaker Guidelines we send to all speakers today are imperceptibly changed since that first 2005 version. But what a team we had to fine-tune it: Mary Hodder, Susan Mernit, Maria Niles, Nichelle Stephens, Nancy White, and of course Lisa and Jory. Every year when we distribute these, speakers ask if they can pass them around and pass them along. So here they are: The BlogHer '10 Speaker Guidelines Look forward to hearing what you think!