What's on the agenda for your blogmistress during Netroots Nation 2011

I'm off to Netroots Nation (hashtags: #NN11 and #NNlgbt). This year I only managed to get roped into two panels (plus a stint on a morning chat show). No partying hard for your  blogmistress; I'm lucky that the worst of my health issues cleared up in time, but I'm not 100%, so I'm going have to spend a fair amount of time with my feet up and getting sufficient rest so I don't pass out during a panel.

I will also have the great fortune of meeting two baristas for the first time - Scott Wooledge (clarknt67) and Alvin McEwen.

Be sure to follow our tweets using the above hash tags, as we'll be posting photos and video as things heat up.

Prior to NN, there is a terrific outgrowth from the past pre-con LGBT sessions. The creation of friend of the Blend Mike Rogers, LGBT Netroots Connect is a meetup for LGBT bloggers, citizen journalists, activists and organizations. The pre-con has events that include training, support and education geared toward expanding participation in the LGBT and larger blogosphere, strategic meetings with online change agents and organizations and networking. That will take place on Wednesday.

As far as the traditional program for NN goes, here's where you can catch me if you are attending or following on Twitter:

Morning News Dump with Lizz Winstead and Friends

THU, 06/16/2011 - 8:00AM, Registration Area

Grab your coffee before the NN action begins each morning while getting an update of the days news with "The Morning News Dump" with Daily Show co-creator and comedian Lizz Winstead and friends.

The Morning News Dump is sorta like "Morning Joe" except we won't have guests who have actually gotten everything wrong for the past ten years. There will be a healthy dose of progressive opinion, analysis, and mockery of conservatism--coming from the panel made up of Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead, popular comedian Elon James White and pundit & author Cliff Schecter.

Guests will include Pam Spaulding, Sam Seder, Shannyn Moore and a variety of others yet to be announced.

It's nice to get a dose of the world before you launch into your Netroots Day.

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To Post or Not to Post? How to React when Your Personal Life Goes Public

SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

PANEL, L100 FG

Panelists: Your blogmistress; Siobhan "Sam" Bennett, President and CEO of the Women's Campaign Fund (WCF); Krystal Ball, former congressional candidate and regular cable news commentator; Robin Marty, freelance writer and editor who focuses on women's rights, reproductive rights and politics; Amanda Terkel, Senior Political Reporter at The Huffington Post.

Social media has dramatically altered our access to the world--and the world's access to us. We document our lives on Facebook, Twitter and blogs, but what does it mean to have an archived version of ourselves so accessible and exposed to the public eye? Bloggers and potential candidates alike struggle to determine what personal information they should post online, fearing their online profiles will later haunt their professional lives. Former Congressional candidate Krystal Ball gained firsthand experience about the challenges of having an online presence when private photos of her were plastered throughout the national press and blogosphere. Join us to learn about groundbreaking research that offers a unique and effective approach to confronting personal online attacks. We will discuss how leaders in the online community can best promote candidates in the midst of public vulnerability, and tactics candidates can use to maintain their personal space in an ever-increasing wired world.

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The Plan to Advance Marriage Equality, Inside and Outside of the 112th Congress

SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

PANEL, M100 FG

Panelists: Joe Sudbay, Deputy Editor of AMERICAblog.com and AMERICAblog Gay; Congressman Jerrold "Jerry" Nadler (D-NY8); Rick Jacobs of The Courage Campaign; Camilla Taylor,Marriage Project Director of Lambda Legal.

This panel will gather experts from the various fronts of the marriage equality struggle--the courts, Congress, state campaigns and online media--to answer the question: how do we work together to advance marriage equality in a challenging political environment? Too often activists, lawmakers and litigators work independently and don't communicate effectively with each other. Congressman Jerry Nadler, author of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), will join other leaders in the fight for marriage equality to build awareness and solidify alliances and strategies for moving forward.

For fun and giggles -- you can see my photo albums from last year's NN, here and here - the latter is titled "Netroots Nation 2010 - The Homosexual Agenda."