Wanda HennigLeverage. Ubuntu. Sustainability. Transitions.

On a Saturday morning in late July, just after a flock of white pelicans arrived for an extended stay at Lake Merritt, a group of activists, bloggers, would-be bloggers, vloggers, Twitter gurus, print journalists transitioning to the web in the age of social media, high-tech nerds, and others, gathered at Tech Liminal in Oakland for the East Bay’s first Beast Bloggers Bar Camp.

People at the event, hosted by journalism micro-funding project Spot.Us, Oakland technical hotspot and salon Tech Liminal and Oakland’s must-read independent politics and development blog, A Better Oakland had been advised to arrive:
With coffee mug and a laptop (or notebook and pen);
prepared to talk blogging

What is it like to return to your roots, your soil, for the first time after you’ve emigrated and made a new life in Australia?
By special correspondent Lois Nicholls
Editor of JournoNews

Alive! The word pops into my head as we enter Johannesburg’s Oliver Tambo Airport. Ironic really, isn’t it, for a country with one of the highest crime rates in the world. Yet I feel it. Sense it. Am reminded of a friend who says he comes alive every time he returns – feels boring, bland and disconnected for weeks …

Oakland publisher discovers the joys of culinary diversity, educates her palate — and now, shares the flavors online
Story by Wanda Hennig

When V. Sheree Williams moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from the American Midwest, she had no idea there was such a thing as culinary travel.
“In fact, the first time I ordered a salad out here (at the Oakland Marriott) and they brought me all this greenery that wasn’t iceberg lettuce, I thought — ‘What is this?’” she laughs.
That was then.
Now, less than a dozen years later, the …

You’re the marketing director of a nonprofit — or perhaps the director if it’s a smaller organization. You know you need to add social media to your tool kit. Where to begin? Any good swim coach starts with a plan. You need one too. To ensure success, consider these five key points before you dive in.
By Wanda Hennig
1) Make sure the pool has water in it. In other words, have a handle on what you’re getting into.
This involves, on the one hand, learning about the tools. On the other, …

How to get a book published. Alternatively, how to get an agent and sell your book.
Just off a conference call with Josh Vogt.
Vogt writes about speculative fiction for examiner.com and formerly worked in the Simon & Schuster advertising department. He also worked with a literary agent for a while —  and notes that breaking in to the market is the challenge most writers face.
Assuming you have your fiction book (or a magazine article) ready for publication. What are your first steps, your goal being to make the fewest mistakes?
Organization:
Have a …

Here is a link to 30 Twitter tutorials. The list was compiled by Brad Jensen and it’s on Danny Outlaw‘s site.
Or check out this “un-guide” by  Michael Alan Harvey

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With thanks to Marc Meyer of Direct Marketing Observations.
30 Top Social Media Experts, Pundits, Evangelists and Marketers
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Do you Twitter, Facebook and have a bunch of people following your daily blog? If not and you feel you should — or need — to know how, go speak to Anca Mosoiu in her 14th Street technology hotspot and salon in Oakland. She’s committed to leveling the playing field, teaching social networking and essential web skills to da people.

Story & photos by Wanda Hennig
Geets Vincent teaches autobiographical writing. Contrary to the claim that those who fail at something resort to teaching it, she can and does write herself. When we first spoke, we were with a group of travel writers …

And one of the many delights served to guests at a book launch lunch and olive oil tasting ….