Blogfest 2011 Program

THE BROOKLYN BLOGFEST 2011

The Bell House

May 12, 2011

OPENING VIDEO by Gabriela Herman

WELCOME by Louise Crawford of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

BLOGS ALOUD with Charlotte Maier, Nancy Graham and Elizabeth Palmer

-With selections from: Brooklynometry | Found in Brooklyn |Truth and Rocket Science | Kensington Stories | A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn | Fucked in Park Slope | With Charlie | Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn | Midnight Cowgirls

INTRO TO THE BIG PICTURE by Atiba Edwards, Visual Stenographer and F.O.K.U.S.

THE BIG PICTURE produced and with music by Adrian Kinloch, Brit in Brooklyn

INTRO TO THE KEYNOTE by Max Robins, vice president and executive director of The Paley Center for Media’s Industry Programs, blogs at The Robins Report. He was editor-in-chief of Broadcasting & Cable magazine and an editor and columnist at TV Guide and Variety.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, blogs about news and media at Buzz Machine. He is director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism.

CLOSING REMARKS by Louise Crawford

BLOGS-OF-A-FEATHER: Intro and Directions by Atiba Edwards

BLOGS-OF-A FEATHER: Special interest break-out groups for networking and information sharing in various parts of the room.

Eclectic with John Guidry | Journalistic Ethics with Brenda Becker & Eliot Wagner |So You Want to Blog: Louise Crawford & Cathryn Swan of Washington Square Park Blog | Parenting with Nancy McDermott | Place and Hyperlocal with Dan Myers & Joseph Teutonico Sheepshead Bites | Culture and Arts with Eleanor Traubman & Mike Sorgatz,| New Business Models for Blogging with Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine | Food, Craft, Fashion with Phyllis Bobb | Photo and Video: Atiba Edwards of Visual Stenographer

BLOGFEST CREDITS

Founder and Director: Louise Crawford

Event Coordinator: Atiba Edwards

Stage Manager: Larry Lopata

Blogs Aloud Written by: Elizabeth Palmer

Blogs Aloud Actors: Nancy Graham, Charlotte Maier, Elizabeth Palmer
Opening Video by Gabriela Herman
The Big Picture: Produced/edited/music by Adrian Kinloch

DeeJay: Sharrie Sutton

Webmaster and Photo Booth: Hugh Crawford

Poster designed by: Mike Sorgatz

BROOKLYN BLOGFEST WISHES TO THANK: Jeff Jarvis, Max Robins, The Bell House, all the BOAF facilitators, all the photographers in The Big Picture, all the volunteers, Atiba Edwards, Mike Sorgatz, Elizabeth Palmer, Adrian Kinloch, Gabriela Herman, Larry & Melissa Lopata, Sharrie Sutton, Lesley w, Marion Hart and Hugh Crawford, Charlotte Maier, Nancy Graham and everyone who came out tonight!