October 24 – BEAST Bloggers Camp 2

It’s the Return of East Bay Bloggers

Get together with other East Bay bloggers for a day of workshops, meetups, and talk. Learn hands-on skills with multimedia, talk about growing your community, and ponder making money. Join us in knitting our communities together and celebrating individual voices in the East Bay!

This event is organized by the Public Media Collaborative, a group of passionate, inter-disciplinary connectors that seeks to encourage positive social action through education and the broad dissemination of ideas.

We are still working on the complete day’s schedule, but as of this point, we have planned workshops taught by the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, Cathy Brooks, Susan Mernit and Amy Gahran, the Breakfast Blogging Club, and more.

Here are some of the topics we are planning to cover:

• Investigative Reporting basics
• Adding video to your site with online tools and simple cameras
• Making more money from your blog (case studies/strategies that work)
• Getting started with Blogging
• Adding photography to your site through other social media outlets (e.g. Flickr)
• Local Blogger Directory and Discovery (share what your neighbors are doing)
• Drupal vs. WordPress technology discussion

Meet the friends you made at July’s Beast Camp, or make some new connections!

When:
Saturday, October 24
10AM – 6PM (Doors open at 9 for Breakfast)

Where:
Tech Liminal
268 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 832-3401

This event is sponsored by several fine people and organizations around the Bay Area, including anonymous individual donors, UC Berkeley, The Maynard Institute, Oakland Local, and Spot.us.

This event is part of a 2-day Social Media extravaganza at Tech Liminal. Check out Social Media for Social Action, taking place Friday, October 23.

Photo by Dawn Endico on Flickr. Used with permission.