Daily Blog
Empowering live blogger video of conversation featuring Michael J. Fox, Russell Simmons
On the day of The Women's Conference, many empowering conversations happen at the same time. This year, the conference created a team of volunteer bloggers to cover the breakout sessions live from the audience level. What was captured was an authentic perspective of once-in-a-lifetime conversations full of insight and inspiration. You can view a video shot by live blogger Christina Gagnier of the extroaordinary presentation, "Men We Love Who Use Their Voices. " During the session, one of our other live blogger Calley Nye wrote, "[Michael J.
Relive First Lady Maria Shriver's Speech and more at The Women's Conference 2008
Thank you for joining us last week for The Women's Conference 2008. If you missed the live webcast or would like to experience the inspirational and empowering speeches and conversations, you can view a replay of selected taped sessions. Stayed tuned this week and throughout the year, as we offer extra footage and individual segments of the leaders and visionaries who participated in this year's conference. Click here to launch our on-demand video player of The Women's Conference 2008. Choose from the menu on the right of the player to watch each segment.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Welcomes You to The Women's Conference 2008
Please join us on Wednesday, October 22, for an all-day live webcast of The Women's Conference 2008 here on www. californiawomen. org. We are also offering live blogging coverage of all our conversation sessions. It is an honor to share the spirit of the conference with you on this virtual space. We hope that you "Feel it. Live it. Pass it on. " and invite others to experience this day of empowerment as we rally One Million Women on the Web.
Help Alleviate Hunger in California: Donate Non-perishable Food at The Women's Conference 2008
During this economic crisis, many Californians are struggling to feed their families and provide life’s essentials. First Lady Maria Shriver is calling on all attendees of The Women’s Conference 2008 to help alleviate the food shortage in California. *The Women’s Conference Food Drive* 14,000 of us will be gathering together at The Women’s Conference this year. Let us use the power of WE to help families in need. Please bring one non-perishable item with you to The Women’s Conference on Wednesday, October 22.
Touched by the conference? Send us your video!
We always like to hear from those who have attended The Women's Conference in the past. Now, we're making an open call for Online video testimonials. How has the conference empowered you? Please send us a link to your video (you can use any service you'd like, such as YouTube or Viddler) to californiawomen@gmail. com. We'll choose some to present on our Webcast on Wednesday, October 22, and put other videos on our blog. Many thanks to you for making The Women's Conference what it is today!.
Female First, Sarah Palin
The Women’s Conference applauds women’s “firsts. ” During the 2007 conference, we were honored to have the first female White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, the first female vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, and the first female Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman. This year’s presidential election is certainly setting the bar for more glass-ceiling cracking newsmakers. On August 29, Republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, announced his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.
Keep Going for Freedom
On August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification of the 19th Amendment officially announcing women's right to vote. Now, 88 years later, discussions about women and the political process continue to resonate amidst the impending presidential election. When I began writing this blog post last night, the first woman to ever gain a majority party nomination for president, Senator Hillary Clinton, was onstage at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “My mother was born before women could vote. My daughter got to vote for her mother for president," Senator Clinton said.
Conference Makes History
As you probably know by now, full-day passes to The Women's Conference 2008 were sold out in less than three hours, an incredible record for the conference and impressive by even the standards of a stadium rock concert. In fact, so many people rushed to buy tickets first thing this morning that it momentarily overwhelmed our ticket registration servers! Every year at The Women's Conference, we experience tremendous growth, but along with that are some growing pains. We sincerely apologize to those of you who were unable to buy tickets this morning.
Seats will fill up quickly! Tickets on sale today.
Online ticket registration is today, July 14, for The Women's Conference 2008, which will be held on Wednesday, October 22, at the Long Beach Convention Center. This year, we invite you to join us for not one, but two, days of empowerment and inspiration where you can, "Be Who You Are.
In Memory of Tim Russert
Beloved journalist Tim Russert, 58, died Friday, June 13, 2008. Best known as the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press", Russert spoke at The Women's Conference in 2006. "Time is a precious commodity," Russert said on the main stage. At the time of his death, Russert was also NBC News’ Washington bureau chief. Acccording to a breaking news article on MSNBC, "Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s 'Meet the Press' broadcast when he collapsed.
Knocking down conference walls
Welcome to the new web site for The Women's Conference and its WE Empower Community. We began this web site redesign many months ago with the goal of taking what happens at The Women’s Conference – all the extraordinary inspiration, education and empowerment – and creating a similar experience online, accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. With this new site, we are taking the conference event beyond the walls of the convention center to give everyone an opportunity to experience its world-class main stage speeches, once-in-a-lifetime conversations and unique seminar sessions.
Twitter Status
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