Speakers at CyberMummy: Judith O'Reilly

Even if you don't immediately recognise the name Judith O'Reilly (right, with lamb) you'll recognise her blogger handle: Wife in the North. We're thrilled to announce that Judith/WITN is appearing at CyberMummy, talking about good content in our first session of the day.

O'Reilly is a former journalist with The Sunday Times, and a former political producer with Channel 4 News and BBC 2's Newsnight. She lives in Northumberland with her husband and three children. Her book, Wife in the North, (based on her blog wifeinthenorth.com) about her move from London to Northumberland, was a UK bestseller and published in 10 countries. "Wifey" secured the fastest-ever UK blog-to-book deal after going viral, and the success of her down-to-earth, fish-out-of-water tale is considered to have contributed to the massive upsurge in the popularity of mummy-blogging.

Get your content questions ready for Judith in July!

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Speakers at CyberMummy: Josie George

We're excited to announce another speaker at the conference: Josie George from Sleep is for the Weak (pictured here with her favourite backpack). One of Josie's passion is writing and she'll be sharing her thoughts and debating the topic in our first main session of the day about creating good content.

Josie is the author of Sleep is for the Weak, a blog chronicling the ups and downs of her life with a demanding young son. Married and living in the Midlands, Josie studies Creative Writing and enjoys exploring her growing love of writing, story-telling and poetry through her blog posts. Her honest and descriptive style has gained a popular following, and Josie encourages other bloggers to explore their creativity through her weekly writing workshop and her online community for women writers, Judith’s Room.

Looking forward to seeing you in London, Josie!

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Speakers at CyberMummy : BlogHer....

We are really pleased to announce that one of BlogHer's founders will be flying over from America to speak on our Working with Brands panel.
Their story is not unlike our own... three women with backgrounds is business, marketing and media and a labor of love...

About BlogHer
Founded in February 2005 by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online and creates opportunities for its members via a community hub (http://blogher.com), annual conferences and a publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. BlogHer provides the highest quality content on a range of topics, with all blogs continually edited to meet strict editorial standards, including content quality, category relevance and blog frequency. BlogHer enjoys a strategic partnership with iVillage, part of Women@NBCU, which includes other NBC Universal brands including Bravo and Oxygen. BlogHer’s investors include Venrock, GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund, and Azure Capital Partners.

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Speakers at CyberMummy: Laura Lee Davies

Laura Lee Davies, a veteran journalist and editor of the SuperSavvyMe.com site, is going to be speaking on our first panel of the day at the conference, talking about creating good content.

Laura Lee Davies has been a journalist for over 20 years. Writing about arts, entertainment, lifestyle and parenting issues, she is a former editor of London-based magazine Time Out. She continues to contribute to Time Out as well as to parenting magazine Junior, and works freelance for other publications and as a contributor to BBC radio. In the past five years Laura Lee has become an established online writer as editor of pregnancy and parenting website ThinkBaby for four years, and now as editor of SuperSavvyMe.com, a community site which is owned by Procter & Gamble.




We're excited to have Laura Lee on board for the conference. Stay tuned for more speaker updates.

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Are you looking for sponsorship?

Are you a blogger looking for sponsorship in order to attend CyberMummy in July? 

If you are can you please email using the link at the top right of the page? I will need to know your name, your blog name and where you live.

We do have a couple of brands looking for bloggers to sponsor - so I thought a list was in order!

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Speakers at CyberMummy: the first of many exciting updates

We've got some great speakers already confirmed for CyberMummy! Look for our rolling list of updates here on the blog.

This morning I'm thrilled to announce that Gigi Eligoloff (right) of MumsRock.com is a panellist on our first session of the day, talking about creating good content. Gigi is a font of pop culture wisdom, writing about topics like Kate and Sam splitting, the curious appeal of Gerard Butler, and SamCam's political pregnancy.

Here's more about Gigi:

After 15 years producing TV shows (including The Big Breakfast and Big Brother), Gigi left television to join the wonderful world of the web and create a place for mums to congregrate online where they could be entertained, inspired and informed in equal measure. Her second baby MumsRock was born in November 2008 and is aimed at mothers who don't do mumsy. As you might expect, MumsRock is just toddling now, taking up most of her time, and isn't afraid to raise it's head above the parapet and tell it like it is.

What's that you say? You haven't yet registered for the CyberMummy conference on Saturday 3 July at the special, delightfully discounted early-bird rate of £80? Do it now and don't miss out!

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CyberMummy scholarship

Tell us about a blogger who can't afford to go to CyberMummy 2010 -- we have one ticket to give away thanks to an anonymous blogger.

The delegate ticket admits one blogger to all the CyberMummy 2010 sessions and includes three coffee breaks, lunch and a glass of wine – it does not include travel or accommodation.

Please email susanna (at) cybermummy (dot) com with your suggestions ... and we’ll pick the lucky winner out of a hat.

Please send suggestions by next Friday 26th March.

-Susanna

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