BlogTalkRadio and Blog Action Day Unite for 12 Hour Talkathon

Are you blogging about poverty on Blog Action Day? If so, you could win a prize. If you hear your blog mentioned during BlogTalkRadio’s 12 hour Blog Action Day Talkathon for Poverty Relief, you will have an hour to call in to receive a prize.

The twelve hour online talkathon will feature interviews with activists, noteworthy bloggers and other talking points relating to poverty. The event will be hosted by event organizer, Easton Ellsworth along with many BlogTalkRadio hosts assisting throughout the day. Listeners can also participate in the chat room and even call in to chat with guests or co-hosts.

From the BlogTalkRadio blog:

Anchored live from Denver by Easton Ellsworth, U.S. director for Blog Action Day, the special will be co-hosted by BlogTalkRadio’s Eric Olsen and Shaun Daily of BlogTalkRadio Today, Dawn Olsen of Glosslip Radio, Tom D’Antoni of D’Antoni and Levine, Reuben Torres of Let’s Get Real, Charles Mattocks of The Poor Chef and other network personalities from throughout the U.S.

Leading bloggers – including Paul Chaney, president of the International Blogger and New Media Association, Liz Strauss, founder of SOBCon (Biz School for Blogging), Chris Garrett, co-author of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, and social-media guru Beth Kanter – are scheduled to appear as guests on the United Nations Millennium Campaign-supported program, along with notables from the political, entertainment and literary arenas.

As you are probably aware, Blog Action Day was created to unite bloggers and have them discuss a single issue on a single day. This year’s topic is poverty. Bloggers who wish to participate in Blog Action Day 2008 can register for free at http://blogactionday.org.

I hope you’ll stop by and listen to the talkathon throughout the day. Many bloggers and podcasters are giving up their time to lend their voices to a worthy cause.

I’m Speaking at BlogWorldExpo – Stop By and Say Hi

If you’re going to BlogWorldExpo, I do hope you’ll stop by and say hi. As you know, I’m a big fan of blogging conferences as it’s a good way to learn and bring bloggers together. I don’t think I’ll be attending as many classes as I’d like since I’ll be spending time at the BlogTalkRadio booth.  It’s all good though.

My session, which also includes my friend David Peralty, is called: How to Be More Than a Blog: New Media Intergration.

Here’s the description:

In today’s busy blogosphere, it’s not enough to have a blog. Using images, video, radio, podcasts and more can take a blog to a completely different level. In this session you’ll learn why bells and whistles are important and how easy it is to implement new media into your blog.

Stop by and see us Saturday afternoon or look for me at BWE and the BlogTalkRadio booth. I hope to meet as many of my blogging friends as possible!

So I’m a ProBlogger, What’s Next?

Working as a professional blogger can lead you to places you never knew exisited. For instance, my job as Community Manager at BlogTalkRadio. If you’ve ever wondered what a Community Manager does and how I came by my job at BTR, listen to my interview with Kelly McCausey and WAHMTalkRadio. My interview starts at 26 minutes, but show your support for Kelly by listening to the whole podcast.

How Network Bloggers Can Benefit from Conferences

Did you know there are many conferences you can attend to network and learn? SOBcon, BlogWorld Expo, BlogHer and SXSW are just a few. There are conferences popping up every month, it seems, to connect the Web 2.0 generation. This is a very good thing.

Here are a few ways you can benefit from attending conferences:

• Network – Spend time talking and sharing ideas with other like-minded people. I came back from last year’s conference with a pocket full of business cards as well as an army of new friends. These friends and I have traded guest blog posts, interviews, and ideas.
• Learn - There are classes for all levels of bloggers. Learn everything from adding fun and creative elements to your blog to social networking to traffic building to monetization.
• Discover – At BWE last year I learned about some great tools to help me take my blogging to a new level. I discovered Twitter, Windows Live Writer, Red Lasso and BlogTalkRadio.

One network blogger told me she wanted to go to SXSW but felt it was for “hardcore” bloggers and not for bloggers for hire. Conferences are especially great for freelance bloggers because you learn the tips and techniques needed to succeed: How to bring in traffic, how to build community, business and blogging  – these are all areas beneficial to network bloggers.

Granted they’re expensive, but they’re also a tax write off. See if there are any blogging or social networking coferences in your area. Attending locally means you’ll only have to pay the cost of admission. The reason I enjoy conferences such as these is because I get to talk blogging and social networking with people who get it.

I’ll be attending and speaking at BlogWorld Expo this year. How about you?

Catch Me on BlogTalkRadio Tomorrow

Many of you have been asking questions either here or via email regarding BlogTalkRadio. If you’d like to learn more about what it is I do at BTR and how it works, do listen in to BTR Insider tomorrow, July 10th at 4:00 pm EST.

Various hosts will be calling in to give their tips for putting on a great show. If you’re looking to take your blog to the next level will radio, you’ll want to listen in.

Also if you can’t make the live broadcast, you can catch the stream or download on demand immediately after.

Here’s the link again for BTR Insider.