2015 Blogging While Brown Program Book

1bloggingwhilebrown.com

cover8th Annual Blogging While Brown ConferenceJune 19-20, 2015Austin, TX

JUNE 19 & 20 | 2015 | AUSTIN, TEXAS

2 bloggingwhilebrown.com

A big THANK YOU to all of our wonderful sponsors.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

PRESENTING SPONSOR

PREMIER SPONSOR


8th Annual

Conference

June 19-20 | 2015 | Austin, Texas

Blogging While Brown Leadership Team

Gina McCauleyFounder and Programming Director

Joi GambleDirector of Brand Partnerships

Shalon EvansDirector of Operations

Virginia Cumberbatch & The Hux StoryhousePublicist


Friday | June 19

8:30-9AM RegistrationMeeting Rooms 1-5 Palmer Events Center

9-9:45AM Opening Remarks Gina McCauley | Founder of Blogging While Brown Joi Gamble | Director of Brand Partnerships Laura Hernandez | Executive Director, Multicultural Marketing, AT&T

9:45-10:45AM Advanced Search Engine Optimization and Content partnerships Claudio E. Cabrera | CBS Local

11-11:45AM Cultivating a Strong Visual Identity Candace Queen | Harris Hall Brand Initiative

11:45AM Remarks Elisa Camahort Page | SR. VP Community Content & Events, SheKnows Media

12-1PM Lunch Panel, From Niche to Mainstream: Why Your Blog Matters PANELISTS:

Michelle Breyer | President and Co-Founder, NaturallyCurly.com Nikki Johnson | Email Marketing Manager, NaturallyCurly.com Evelyn Ngugi | Social Media Manager, NaturallyCurly.com Kami Smith | Integrated Media Account Manager, NaturallyCurly.com


MODERATOR: Cristina Cleveland | Senior Content Editor for NaturallyCurly and contributing writer at Camille Styles

1:15- 2PM Podcasting For Profits: How to Create a Podcast That Benefits Your Brand Brandy Butler | brandybutleronline.com

2:15-3:15PM Blogger Rights Kit Walsh | Electronic Frontier Foundation, eff.org

3:30-4:30PM Let’s Create That Course!: The 6 Essential Steps to Go From None to Done Jennifer Kennedy | TeachGoodStuff.com

4:30-5:30PM Uplift. Mobilize. Inspire. Lecrae | Grammy Award-winning Artist L. Michelle Smith | U.S. Diversity, AT&T Corporate Communications Jason Caston | iChurch Method

6-8PM Opening Party / Hyatt Regency Lobby

8PM Excursions- Explore Austin!

Saturday, June 20, 20156:45-8AM Wellness WalkHyatt Regency Lobby 8-9AM Registration Palmer Events Center


9-9:30AM Opening Remarks Gina McCauley | Founder of Blogging While Brown Joi Gamble | Director of Brand Partnerships Ryan L. Williams | Manager Multicultural Initiatives, NBC News

9:30-10:30AM Conference Keynote — The Million Dollar Blog Formula Ronnie and Lamar Tyler | BlackandMarriedwithKids.com

10:45 -11:45AM Breakout 1: Blogging 101 Super-SessionMeeting Room 1-4 Arsha Jones | ArshaJones.com Bernetta Knighten | bernettastyle.com

Meeting Room 5 Breakout 2: You've Recorded Your Video Blog, Now What? Chip Dizard | ChipDizard.com

11:45AM -1PM Lunch and Blogging 101 Super-Session Con't.

12PM Lunch with NBCBLK Amber Payne | Editor NBCBLK 1-2PM Breakout 3:The Art of StorytellingMeeting Room 5 Oneika Raymond | Oneika-the-Traveller.com

Meeting Room 1-4 Breakout 4: Keeping Austin Wired-3 Austinites Impacting the National Blogging Landscape PANELISTS:

Nikisha Brunson | UrbanBushBabes / Pineapple Life Mando Rayo | Taco Journalism / Mando Rayo Collective Joah Spearman | Localeur


MODERATOR:

Evelyn Ngugi | Host of NaturallyCurly's #CurlBoss & Evelyn From the Internets / Founder of AustinWhileBlack

2:15-3PM Breakout 5: TV, to Radio, to HuffPo Live:Meeting Room 1-4 How to Take Your Online Message to Other Mediums Danyelle Little | TheCubicleChick.com

Meeting Room 5 Breakout 6: Blog Lockdown— Technology Tips To Keep Your Blog Secure Terrance Gaines | BrothaTech.com

3-3:45PM Breakout 7: How to Get BookedMeeting Room 1-4 for TV and Radio Jacque Reid | SingleAndFAB.com and the Tom Joyner Morning Show

Meeting Room 5 Breakout 8: Online Activism— Opportunity or Obligation? Howard Franklin | InfluenceFactory.com

4-4:45PM Closing Session

4:45-7PM Break

7- 10PM Black Weblog Awards


Michelle Breyer@naturallycurly

Conference Speakers

Nikisha Brunson@UrbanBushBabes

Brandy Butler@iambrandybutler

Claudio Cabrera@cecabrera21

Cristina Cleveland@FUJIFILES

Chip Dizard@chipdizard

Howard Franklin@iruncampaigns

Terrance Gaines@BrothaTech

Nikki Johnson@NChanel

Arsha Jones@arshajones

Jennifer Kennedy@teachgoodstuff

Jason Caston@jasoncaston


Bernetta Knighten@BernettaStyle

Danyelle Little@TheCubicleChick

Evelyn Ngugi@EVEEEEEZY

Candace Queen@Candace_D_Queen

Diana Ramsey@SisWithBeauty

Oneika Raymond@oneikatraveller

Mando Rayo@MRCollectivos

Jacque Reid@jacquereid

Lecrae@lecrae

L. Michelle Smith@LMichellePR

Ryan L. Williams@RyanWms77

Kami Smith@chocolateymix

Joah Spearman@joahspearman

Lamar & Ronnie Tyler@blackandmarried

Kit Walsh@neurokit

Amber Payne@payneNBC


Rollover DataSM is only available with Mobile Share Value® plans. Unused data from the monthly plan allowance rounds up to the nearest MB and carries over for one billing period. Unused Rollover Data automatically expires after one billing period or with any plan change (such as changing data amounts or termination). Unused overage data does not roll over. Rollover Data is always consumed last, after your other data allowances. Unused Rollover Data is not redeemable for cash or credit and is not transferable including to other Mobile Share Value groups on your account. Mobile Share and Mobile Share Data-only plans are excluded. Visit att.com/rolloverdata for more info. [©2015 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.]

Introducing Rollover Data.SM

Sign up for a Mobile Share Value® plan to get truly shareable Rollover Data. Learn more at att.com/RolloverData.

The data you don’t use this month rolls over to next month.

Client:

Job:

Pub:

AT&T

15-ATTW-003

Blogging Conference

5x7

6x8

.125 around

Live:

Trim:

Bleed:

Insertion Date:


Best wishes to BWB on a great 2015 conference!

from the

Journalism Fellowships at Stanford

We’re also happy to introduce these journalistswho were selected for our 2015-16 class.

Jenée Desmond-Harris Staff writerVox.com

Tonya MosleyBroadcast contributor

Al Jazeera America

Tracie PowellFounder/editorAll Digitocracy

Fellows leverage the resouces of Stanford University and Silicon Valley while developing solutions

to their journalism challenges.

Are you ready for a JSK Fellowship?

Learn more at knight.stanford.edu


#BWBATX

2015 Blogging While Brown Program Book

Internet

Transcript of 2015 Blogging While Brown Program Book