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Women And Open Source
This panel will explore how to get women more involved in developing technology and contributing to Open Source and Open Standards. What are the current barriers? What can we do to break these barriers?
Panelists: Michelle Murrain, NOSI, Leslie Hawthorn, Google
Moderator: Kaliya Hamlin, She’s Geeky |
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Firing Up Your Online List
Are you burning out your list with action alerts and fundraising appeals? This session is for you. Our all-star panel will identify strategies to rejuvenate your online constituents in 2008 and ramp up your online advocacy and fundraising.
Panelists: Marie Michelson, Greenpeace, Shirley Sexton, Easter Seals, Farra Trompeter, Big Duck
Moderator: Kelly O'Neal |
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Tech But Were Afraid To Ask (a man)
There are gazillion tools on the market these days that claim to help ramp up your technology programs. What do they all do and are some of them overkill?
Panelists: Holly Ross, NTEN, Usha Venkatachallam, of Appropriate IT (AI), Anne Champlin, Olson, Rosie de Fremery, American Jewish World Service
Moderator: Laura Quinn, Idealware |
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Get Your Local Campaigns On!
This panel will explore what it takes to act local and achieve big results running local campaigns by synchronizing your offline and online tools and strategies.
Panelists: Jo Lee, Citizen Speak, Clarissa Goodlett, Color of Change, Dani Simons, NYC Department of Transportation
Moderator: Julia Rosen, Courage Campaign |
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Tooting Your Own Horn
Do you take credit for all of the fabulous work you do? Do you feel that you are forging ahead in your career or are you being overshadowed by your male colleagues? This panel will explore personal branding and provide tips and strategies to help you enhance your careers and visibility.
Panelists: Megan Fitzgerald, Career By Choice, Lynne D. Johnson, Fast Company
Moderator: Angie Chang, Women2.org |
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Build An Online Campaign And Change The World
The latest tricks and tools in online campaign organizing and recruitment and making them go viral.
Panelists: Sarah Dijulio, M&R Strategic Services, Emily Logan, Care2, Nita Chaudhary, Moveon.org
Moderator: Ruby Sinreich, Orange Politics
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Women And Social Capital
Networking, schmetworking...why is it that women are statistically more 'social' than men, but have statistically less powerful business networks than men? This panel will explore how the women who have entered boys clubs and built powerful Social Capital have done it and give ideas to women on how to build their networks.
Panelists: Joan Blades, Moveon.org and MomsRising, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Moderator: Tara Hunt, Citizen Agency |
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Mobile Activism
How can we use mobile technology to fight for social justice issues and raise money for organizations?
Panelists: Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org, Catherine Geanuracos, Live Earth
Moderator: Julie Germany, Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet
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Breaking Through The Digital Ceiling
Experts will identify strategies for getting heard and how to effectively advocate for your technology program as well as how to break through the barriers relating to budgets, resources and lack of vision by upper management.
Panelists: Cassandra Koenen, IFAW, Holly Ross, NTEN
Moderator: Lynne Labieniec, Beaconfire Consulting |
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Web 2.0: Hot Or Not?
Twitter! Facebook! Ning! Panelists share their opinions on the latest trends in Web 2.0 and how organizations can effectively use them to build community as well as as how to measure the real ROI’s.
Panelists: Heather Holdridge, Care2.com, Connie Reece, Social Media Club and Frozen Pea Fund, Beth Kanter
Moderator: Allyson Kapin, Women Who Tech and Rad Campaign |
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Improve This Blog Pitch
Real-live outreach programs from our attendees. A panel of experts offer constructive improvements...to creatives, calls to action and blogger targeting since they have been on both sides of the marketing/blogger equation...and can feel your pain, even as they hope to help you not get blown up by the bloggers. This session is a special preview of the BlogHer Business Conference and is sponsored by BlogHer.
Panelists: Susan Getgood, Marketing Roadmaps, Mir Kamin, WouldaShoulda Blog, and Maria Niles, Consumerpop Marketing Consulting.
Moderator: Liz Gumbinner, momblogpreneur
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