Schedule
This year in addition to a editorial-focussed plenary session, we’ll also have several smaller workshop sessions aimed at improving your blogging skills. We’ll be announcing all the speakers and leaders for the sessions soon.
Schedule is subject to change
8:30 – 9:25 Registration and coffee – CyberMummy Central
9:30 – 9:35 Welcome by the founders – CyberMummy 1
9:35 – 9:55 Conference Opener: “Working with Facebook: the power of the social web” – CyberMummy 1
Lord Richard Allan, Facebok’s director of policy for the EU, leads the company’s public policy work in Europe. Richard works on issues including privacy, online child safety, freedom of expression, e-commerce regulation and public sector uses of social media.
9:55 – 10:15 Keynote: Sarah Brown - CyberMummy 1
Mum, campaigner, writer, and Founder and President of PiggyBankKids, Brown has worked with bloggers on campaigns, including the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood of which she is global patron.
10:20 – 11:15 Book signing and coffee break – CyberMummy Central
A chance to mingle, talk to sponsors and get books signed by the authors. Sarah Brown will sign her new book “Behind the Black Door” and novelist/writing instructor Sophie King will be signing copies of her books too.
11:20 – 12:15 Morning Session I
Choose from one of three topics for each session slot
Panel – Marketing your blog (CyberMummy 1) – Don’t let your hard work go to waste. Make sure people are finding and reading your blog. This session will give guidance on everything from doing your own PR to using discovery engines like StumbleUpon to other practical tips and is designed to help you get more readers.
Debbie O’Connor, Motivating Mum; Karen Cannard, The Rubbish Diet; Frédéric Montagnon, Wikio and eBuzzing
Writing Workshop with Sophie King (CyberMummy 2) – Find your blogging voice with this hands-on workshop run by novelist and Oxford writing instructor Sophie King
CyberLab – Social networking (CyberMummy 3) – Up your social networking game with this Twitter and Facebook workshop
Craig Hill, Kerry Jean Lister and Sophie Rivet, Digital Outlook
12:15 – 13:10 Morning Session II
Panel – Working with brands and making money (CyberMummy 1) – Can you? Should you? Will you? Explore ways to make your blog work for you with a diverse panel, including people who earn income via their blogs and brands on the leading edge of blogger relationships.
Sarah Fortuna, HP; Natalie Lue, and ; Erica Douglas, Little Mummy and Become a Mum Blogger Course; Ellie Lee, Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies
CyberLab – Keeping your blog legal (CyberMummy 2) – Do you accept freebies, do reviews or write about people on your blog? Are you unsure about libel and copyright? Then you need to attend this sessions about blogging issues you can’t afford to ignore.
Gayle Trigg, blogger and solicitor, Wragge & Co LLP; Dawn Brown, ABC North East accounting and tax advice and Knees Up Mother Brown blog (dawniebrown.wordpress.com)
Workshop – Photography (CyberMummy 3) – Express your creativity and make your blog eye-catching with arresting photos. Bring your laptop and a camera for hands-on instruction led by a blogger/professional photographer.
Jay Mountford, and
13:20 – 14:15 Lunch – CyberMummy Central
14:20 – 15:10 Afternoon Session I
Panel – How to be a blogger activist (CyberMummy 1) – Learn how to work with charities and use your blog to make a difference
Liz Scarff, Save the Children; Rosie Scribble, Rosie Scribble blog; Sian To, Mummy Tips
Workshop – Blogging Essentials (CyberMummy 2) – Stats, SEO, RSS feeds, the basics of good design…understand them all with this session. You’ll take away easy step-by-step musts for both new and growing blogs.
Sue Davis, web designer and content strategist, www.sue-davis.net; Danielle Fudge, SEO Analyst, Disney
Blogger-to-blogger inspiration (CyberMummy 3) – Four success story case studies from our community of bloggers
Tara Cain, Sticky Fingers, on her popular photo meme; Maggy Woodley, Red Ted Art, on running a specialty blog; Rachael Lucas, Tales from the Village, on promoting your writing through your blog; Claire and Lucy McDonald, Crumbs, on carving out your niche
15:15 – 16:10 Afternoon Session II
Workshop – Video blogging (CyberMummy 1) – Make the next big leap with your content by doing video commentary, reviews and more. Tips from an accomplished video blogger and a video expert on content, techniques, cameras and software.
Nick Coffer, My Daddy Cooks; Christine Beardsell, BritMums
CyberLab – Getting to know and love WordPress (CyberMummy 2) – Why do professionals adore WordPress? In this workshop, find out the fun things you can do with this versatile platform, how to get the most out of a WordPress blog, and what it takes to upgrade from another platform, such as Blogger.
Sue Davis, web designer and content strategist, www.sue-davis.net
Workshop – Blog-life balance (CyberMummy 3) – Can’t find time to blog, Tweet, Facebook, LinkedIn and, oh yeah, see your family? In this session you’ll learn how to better achieve blog-life balance.
Nadine Hill, time-management expert and Juggle Mum blog
16:15 – 16:40 Coffee break – CyberMummy Central
16:45 –17:00 Writing about your life: Rachel Johnson – CyberMummy 1
The journalist, author and editor of The Lady magazine who has written everything from a fictionalised version of life in Notting Hill to her family dilemma shares her experiences and advice, as a kick-off to bloggers’ own writings.
17:00 – 18:00 Crowdsourced Keynote – CyberMummy 1
A greatest hits of blog posts from the previous year read by the bloggers themselves. See a list of the bloggers who will be speaking.
18:00 – 20:00 After-conference party – CyberMummy 1
Grab a drink, start to mingle and don’t miss the fun.
20:00 Carriages
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