The Panelists:

Liz Henry is a producer and software developer at BlogHer. In addition to being a poet and literary translator, she has been writing online since 1990 and blogging seriously since 2003. When she began blogging she did not think anyone would ever read it. Liz blogs at TypePad

Alissa Kriteman is the host for Just for Women: Dating Relationships and Sex. She has a weekly audio podcast show about empowering women. Elisa has been blogging for about two years and is enthusiastic about her future in blogging at WordPress.

Danielle Henderson has been blogging for 6 years with a variety of hosting platforms, and has settled on Square Space. As a personal blogger, she writes under her real name which recently provided her with an interesting experience on a job interview.

Megan Garnhum has been blogging for nine years and has over ten years experience in marketing companies, media, software and online social networking. She also does blog design and consulting.

Who are you?
-Contact info (Email address, Twitter name, Facebook profile)
-About (Describe yourself)
-Photos or graphic element

Who are your readers?
-Recent comments (Form ties and develop relationships with commenters)
-Links back, avatars, icons

What are you writing about?
-Tags, categories
-Tag clouds
-Feeds or pages by category

Where are you?
-Have some presence on bookmarking, ranking sites
-Buttons for dig, kirtsy, stumbleupon

Why should we care?
-Not just for promotions or SEO
-We are part of intellectual history

What are you writing?
-Writing might change over time
-Tagging & categories are useful
-Explore more information about your content
-Make sure your links are relevant and describe what you are linking to