Audio from our Blogging Panel at the recent CMN conference

Here's a way to hear the audio that was taped at our Blogging Panel at the recent CMN conference. I was honored to be seated with Lisa Hendey and Mark Shea. Karina Fabian of Catholic Writer's Guild was our gracious and talented moderator.

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The recent CMN conference

I'm now back home from participating in the CMN, Catholic Marketing Network conference which was held in Valley Forge, PA from August 3rd through 6th. I headed down to PA on Tuesday with wonderful friends and colleagues from Circle Media (Circle Press, the publishing arm of Circle Press published 3 of my books (Grace Cafe: Serving Up Recipes for Faithful Mothering, The Domestic Church: Room By Room, and Mother Teresa and Me: Ten Years of Friendship) and I also write book and movie reviews for the National Catholic Register which is part of Circle Media as is Faith & Family magazine where I have written as well) and we all settled in Tuesday evening.

Wednesday morning it was up bright and early at 5:15 AM to get ready to meet the people in my party downstairs before heading over to the next hotel where we would go to holy Mass which would begin our very busy day at the conference.

My first presentation was at 10:15 AM right after the Opening Welcome from Ann Lewis and Karina Fabian of the Catholic Writer's Guild. My talk was entitled "Your Manuscript is Complete, Now What?" It was attended by many writers of manuscripts who were interested in the publishing process, hoping to be published one day. I opened with a remark that I thought it was so wonderful to begin the day with holy Mass and then a Eucharistic procession. Where else can you find that at a writer's conference? We were surely blessed!

I enjoyed the audience's company. I don't have a photo of that event at the moment, but will post one when I do receive one from the Catholic Writer's Guild.

After my first presentation I hurried over to the blogging panel which was being held right after my talk to meet up with my dear friend and fellow Catholic author (founder of Catholic Mom.Com) Lisa Hendey, as well as Mark Shea, and Karina Fabian who graciously moderated our panel. Our panel was called "Making the Most of Your Blog."

It was a lot of fun to participate with these seasoned bloggers as well as to interact with our audience.

I plan to continue to post bits and pieces of the conference in the coming days.

God bless!

Donna-Marie