First Wave: Speakers at Blogging While Brown 2012 in Philly!

Who's Speaking @BWBConference 2012?

Blogging While Brown is a little more than three months away. Have you registered yet? We hope to see you in Philadelphia, PA, June 1-2, 2012!

We are proud to announce the first wave of programming for our 5th annual conference.  More speaker announcements coming soon. View full speaker bios on our Speakers Page.

Your Personal Brand: It actually IS all about you! 

Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Luvvie Ajayi

Awesomely Luvvie,  Red Pump Project

Building & Managing an Online Community

Lamar Tyler

Black and Married With Kids

Donna Pierce

Black America Cooks, Skillet Diaries

Akotoa Ofori-Atta

The Root

Netroots, Blackroots, Grassroots:Social Media and Social Change Five Years Later 

Tamika Mallory

National Action Network

Naomi Christine Leapheart

Congreso

More than words: The Power of Video & Imaging 

Aymer Jean Christian

University of Pennsylvania, Aymer Jean Christian

Erin Bailey

Scandalous Beauty

Social Media & Technology: What's Next?

Marlin Page
CEO, Knowledge Brokers      

The Brothers of Blogging:  Making it in a Woman’s World

Shawn Williams
Dallas South News,  ShawnPWilliams.com

Slim Jackson
Single Black Male, The Real Slim Jackson

Wayne Bennet

The Field Negro

Darryle Frierson

From Ashy to Classy

Love is a Battlefield: Navigating from the Trenches 

Kaneisha Grayson

Kaneisha Grayson 

Damon Young

Your Degrees Won’t Keep You Warm At Night, VerySmart Brothas

Michelle Talbert

Black Love Rules

See these speakers and more by registering today!

National Action Network Executive Director Joins BWB 2012

Blogging While Brown is proud to announce that Tamika D. Mallory, Executive Director of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) will be a panelist at the 2012 Blogging While Conference that will take place June 1-2 in Philadelphia at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

“We are thrilled that Ms. Mallory will be participating in our political activism panel in a very important discussion amongst those who use social platforms and their influence to be catalysts of change within their communities. The panel will be a dialogue between traditional civil organizations and younger activists during a presidential election year. Mallory has continuously demonstrated that our individual voices can be powerful when joined together and social media makes such a collective effort an effective means to peacefully organize political and social action,” stated Aminah Hanan, Blogging While Brown Executive Director.

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BlogHer Returns to Blogging While Brown 2012

Blogging While Brown is proud to welcome BlogHer back as a sponsor for our 2012 conference. Founded in February 2005, as a labor of love, by Jory Des Jardins, Elisa Camahort Page and Lisa Stone, BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women online to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. BlogHer creates opportunities for more than 34 million women via annual conferences, a Web Hub and publishing network of more than 2500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates and their ad network .

Committed to supporting other grassroots events born of passion and commitment BlogHer is proud to sponsor Blogging While Brown for the fifth consecutive year.

BWB’s First Annual Holiday Cocktail Party

Thanks to everyone who came out to our first annual holiday cocktail party and coat drive Friday at Red Kiva in Chicago. Special thanks to our partners Afrobella, The Red Pump Project and Swish Dreams.

We sipped cocktails courtesy of Alize, munched on cupcakes and indulged in trivia for iTunes gift cards. There were even free beauty products compliments of Afrobella.

Photos by Aminah Hanan

Cocktails, Convos and Coats

 

Tis the season for giving! Join Blogging While Brown as we team up with The Red Pump Project, Swish Dreams and the fabulous Afrobella for a holiday party and coat drive! "Cocktails, Convos and Coats" is our way of partying with a purpose this holiday season and giving back to those less fortunate.

Come for an evening of good music (DJ Niena Drake will be on the ones & twos), drinks, conversations, games and charity. Please bring gently-used to new winter gear you no longer want or need with you to donate. All items donated will be given to local shelters. 

Event information

When: Friday, December 30, 2011; 6-9pm

Where: Red Kiva Lounge (1108 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL 60607)

Who: @BWBConference, @RedPumpProj, @SwishDreams and @Afrobella

Free cover all night, but we're accepting suggested donations of $10.

Click here to RSVP.