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MILBLOGGING: MilBlogging as a Community
Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM, 229

A fascinating look at how the milblogging community was built, what its achieved and how deep and wide its reach has become. We’ll explore how milblogging gives a voice to supporters, parents and spouses of service members, and how that voice is effectively used to support an entire military community.

Participants
Beth, aka FbL - Fuzzilicious Thinking (Speaker)
Beth, aka FbL Beth, aka FbL
Beth was a “typical civilian” before discovering milblogs in 2004. After milblogger Chuck Z was wounded in 2005, she co-founded Project Valour-IT with the support of the milblog community. Valour-IT has since distributed over 2,700 adaptive laptops for the wounded, and under Beth’s leadership, bloggers unite each Veterans Day in a friendly fundraising competition. Beth received a 2006 Milbloggie for Fuzzilicious Thinking, and a 2007 Deutsche Welle Best of the Blogs jury award for using the Valour-IT project blog to coordinate and fundraise. She also writes for the respected Castle Argghhh! milblog, and telecommutes from her patio as Assistant to the President of Internet-based troop support non-profit Soldiers’ Angels.
Mrs Greyhawk Mrs Greyhawk
Mrs Greyhawk is co-author of the Mudville Gazette and MilBlogs, an endeavor begun in 2003 by her husband Greyhawk. They created the MilBlogs Ring - an informal association of 2700 members of current and former Soldiers, Sailers, Airmen and Marines and their family members sharing their stories from the front lines of combat zones and elsewhere around the world. Mrs G currently manages the MilBlogs Ring and The MilBlog Community on the Truth Laid Bear. For several years now Mrs. G has published a daily compilation on the Dawn Patrol of the latest posts from frontline milbloggers, providing readers a rare glimpse of the war on terror through the eyes of those most directly engaged in the battle. As the 'home' of the MilBlogs, The Mudvile Gazette is generally regarded as the place to go to see what's happening in the world of the military blogs.
Karen Karen
I've been an Army Wife for many years, and have a few to go. I'm the Mom of an Army Veteran, and Mom in law of an Army Veteran. Decided that Parents of Serving Military of any Service need a place to go to ask questions, read, vent and understand they are not alone. Found others who thought the same, and just jumped in! LAW - Liberal Army Wife. Decided when the only military wives blogs I could find were conservatives - that the Liberals in the Army Family needed to be heard. It's heartening to find more and more of "us" making our voices heard - loudly! One person - and a couple of different perspectives!
Sarah Sarah
Sarah has been an Army wife for six years now. Her husband is currently on his second deployment to Iraq. Last time he didn't have running water, but this time, he gleefully notes, he "pees in Saddam's toilet." Sarah spends her time on one of two activities: 1) blogging at SpouseBUZZ.com and TryingToGrok.com, or 2) crocheting afghans for wounded troops and knitting preemie caps for the local hospital. She's learning to knit with the laptop balanced on her knees so she can do both at the same time.
Guard Wife Guard Wife
Guard Wife is the moniker Melinda Warthman adopted when she began blogging for SpouseBuzz.com. Prior to her SpouseBuzz affiliation, she had been blogging on her own since 2002. Melinda is a 30-something Army National Guard spouse who recently graduated from law school and sat for the July bar exam. Melinda's family includes her ARNG husband, their two young daughters, Annie the golden retriever and Henry the chocolate lab.
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