Along with my co-panelist and close friend Raul Pacheco, I will be speaking next month at Northern Voice, an annual conference on personal blogging and social media that I’ve attended since its founding. I credit the first Northern Voice conference as helping me to launch my career in blogging.

On May 13th , Raul and I will be presenting the following panel:

Communities that Rock – Creating kick-ass online communities

Building robust, long-lasting and engaged communities requires much more than just having a Facebook, Twitter profile, a website or a blog. This presentation by Arieanna Schweber and Raul Pacheco is intended to showcase a variety of strategies, tools and techniques that anybody can use to begin laying the foundations of a successful online community.

Using your blog as your social hub, Arieanna and Raul will teach you a broad range of elements associated with community building: good blogging design, social plugins, good practices for sticky blogging, responding to positive and negative feedback, finding your online voice, maximizing your reach and nurturing your blogging niche, and building up a community with guest posts, forums, commentary and additional social platforms.

You will emerge from this session with a broad portfolio of ideas that you will be able to implement immediately to strengthen your online community.

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On May 14th, I will be moderating another panel, Parenting Online – Families, Blogs and Social Media, with Amber Strocel, Kerry Sauriol and Vincent Marra.

There are some great panels and panelists happening on both days – I hope to see you there!