East Bay is Pig Latin for BEAST, a name that has all the power of bloggers in the SF Bay Area who are the eyes and ears of the East Bay community.  We are doing this Barcamp because we want to create an East Bay blogger’s network of bloggers, journalists self-starters in order to provide technical support, ideas and resources.

In honor of all the East Bay bloggers, Spot.Us, Tech Liminal and BetterOakland are hosting their first BEAST Bloggers Camp on Saturday July 18, 2009 at TechLiminal in downtown Oakland

Date 

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Location 

Tech Liminal

268 14th Street

Oakland, CA 94612

info@techliminal.com

(510) 832-3401

Schedule 

The day will start at 8am with an hour of socializing over coffee and  pastries.  At 9am sharp we will give directions on how to propose a topic and then we will create a schedule. We will be harvesting the minds and expertise of all the people in the room to come up with topics pertinent to blogging about the East bay. If you’d like to lead a session you’re going to want to speak up with your topic idea at 9am, when the schedule is being created. If you’re an East Bay blogger or write about the East Bay please join us! 

Catering 

Sponsors are being sought to provide Breakfast and Lunch. Please contact one of the planners, below, if you or your company would like to provide catering for this event.

Planners

Kara Andrade, Spot.us:  kara at spot dot us. Twitter: @newmaya

Anca Mosoiu, Tech Liminal: anca at techliminal dot com.  Twitter: @techliminal

Echa Smoothe. A Better Oakland: v at smoothe dot com.  

The planners would like to thank Kaliya Hamlin for her help with the organization and flow for the day.

Volunteers

If you would like to help BEASTBloggersCamp, we welcome you!  We are looking for help with:

1. Publicity.  Let your friends know about the camp.
2. Registration Desk.  Help us get people into the event. 
3. Blogging or Tweeting the event.
4. Photography.

Participants (aka Campers)

Register for the event at our Eventbrite page:  http://beastbloggercamp.eventbrite.com/

Sessions

Add information about Sessions you would like to see at BEAST Bloggers Camp add them here:

1. Photography and Your Blog (Anca)
2. Beatblogging, covering your niche (David Cohn, Spot.us)
3. Fact checking
4. Internet research and strategies for finding information (Echa)
5. Google Analytics (Anca)
6. Money and blogs
7. How to share content between multiple blogs
8. Partnerships for money  and working with the the Spot.us model
9. The SF Gate guy to come over and talk about blog networks
10. Plugins and Yahoo Pipes