BlogHer: Day 1 (cont’d)

Posted by Erica July 27th, 2007 • Uncategorized • Permalink

Susie Bright: “Being out there and open is the best protection you have because people will defend you if they know who you are.”
Susie Bright: If you’re getting threats based on something you say, then you said something important and influential. Congratulations!
Liveblog

Laina started to introduce herself, and Liz had to cut her off because she was stealing all of her topic thunder.
If you’re going to delete/close/”actively manage” comments, it might be a good idea to state your policy or note where you’ve jumped in. Sadly, there are a lot of examples of people displaying despicable behavior online.
When people are talking smack about you should you fight back? Or keep your mouth shut? Both ways can work. If the comments about you are not on your blog, you should probably let it go.
You can’t control what people will do or say, but you can control how you respond.
Related to previous panel, if you have a good community of commenters, they’ll stick up for you in your comments.
Kathryn Thompson: If you’re not intolerant, you’re not authentic. We’re all intolerant about something. We call people out on them when our intolerances don’t match up with theirs.
Liveblog

Gina Trapani: The technical act of blogging is not nearly as simple as people make it out to be. Especially if you’re a high volume poster.
All the good shit is in Firefox.
The Wiki
Be ruthless. Prune your feeds. Or at least mark all as read. Easy to say, hard to do. I always feel like I’m going to miss something. But I feel worse when I end up having to skip a bunch of stuff. Ignorance is bliss.
Barb Dybwad: “don’t get bogged down with a feeling of obligation to consume or look at everything. try to cultivate an attitude of opporunity rather than obligation.” Amen!

And now, cocktails. Actually, find Missy first. Then cocktails.