Megan Smith – Ananda Leeke

Happy President Obama’s Birthday!

Happy Tuesday!

I am still on my Blogher 2009 Conference (www.blogher.com) high. My energy is going strong! I decided to share several webisodes of Ananda Leeke TV (www.youtube.com/anandaleeke) that feature my Blogher experience. Let me know what you think.

I will post webisodes from my Black Women in Social Media @ Blogher Series later this week. They feature a diverse group of dynamic women including Donna Byrd, publisher of TheRoot.com (www.theroot.com) and Gina McCauley, founder of Blogging While Brown (www.bloggingwhilebrown.com), What About Our Daughters blog (www.whataboutourdaughters.com), and Michelle Obama Watch web site (http://michelleobamawatch.com). I posted the interviews of Donna and Gina below to give you a taste of what’s to come.

August 6th marks the launch of my interview series with Blogher 2009 conference participants on Sisterhood, the Blog Radio (http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/42015). The program schedule will be posted shortly.

Find out what happened to me on the first day of Blogher. Many thanks to Megan Smith for filming the webisode.

While I was at Blogher, I had time to make a fun webisode with Tropicana Juice. I shared my healthy tip on eating breakfast. My Blogher sistalove Shaz Mistery filmed my “bootleg” webisode as the Tropicana folks filmed their “Juice” webisode! The Tropicana folks said my webisode turned out great! I can’t wait to see the official copy. I wanna give a shout out to my brother Matt for teaching me how to do on camera interviews!

On the last day of the conference, I hung out with Sam Smith, one of the nicest Blogher men I met. Sam served as ae Pepsico guy and promoted Tropicana Juice products. He always made my day with wonderful compliments! Many thanks to Shaz Mistry for filming the webisode!

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day and week!

Peace and Creativity,

Ananda

The official Blogging While Brown Conference photo taken by Freddy O – http://www.freddyo.com

NOTE: I am seated in the second row in between the two ladies wearing black.

Happy Tuesday! Happy Summer! Happy Belated Father’s Day!

Today I am writing a very short post about the 2009 Blogging While Brown (BWB) Conference that I attended on June 19 and 20 in Chicago. It was a fabulous experience! Wonderful people ! Fantastic information! And so much inspiration! I am glad I went to both the 2008 and 2009 conferences. I will post a longer BWB update later in the week. I’ll also post about my Chicago art adventures. In the meantime, I thought you might like to watch videos that feature BWB conference sessions. They were taped by NextGenWeb, a BWB conference sponsor. Click here to watch the 5 videos: http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/nextgenweb-blogging-while-brown.

If you would like to read additional BWB upates written by conference participants, see the links below.

1) BWB Conference founder Gina McCauley (includes several videos)

http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2009/06/oops-we-did-it-again-blogging-while-brown-2009-chicago-first-video/

2) BWB Conference program chairperson Shawn Williams, founder of Dallas South blog

http://dallassouthblog.com/2009/06/22/2009-blogging-while-brown-recap-by-dallas-south/

3) BWB Conference participant Megan Smith, Blogher representative at BWB

http://www.blogher.com/blogging-while-brown-2009-conference-people-color-lessons-all-bloggers

4) BWB Conference participant “Awesomely Luvvie,” a Chicago native

http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2009/06/blogging-while-brown-rocked.html

5) BWB Conference participant Adria Richards’ Flickr BWB photos

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bwb09/

6) BWB Conference participant Talia Whyte

http://globalwireonline.org/2009/06/21/bwb-bloggers-on-digital-activisms-past-present-and-future/

FYI – I am planning to host a special episode of BAP Living Radio on July 5th that discusses lessons learned from the 2009 BWB conference. Stay tuned for more details and the list of guest panelists.

Peace and Creativity,

Ananda