Inspiration for women who blog (and men too)
Blogging can sometimes feel isolating, especially when you’re new to the blogosphere. As you’re building your readership, skills, and experience it might seem to be an uphill battle and one that you’re tackling alone. It doesn’t have to be this way. There are two good great fantastic opportunities for all bloghers (that’s bloggers of the female sex in case you didn’t know) to forge a deeper connection in the coming month.
BlogHer ‘07 — Live and Second Life Live
Increase your skills, expand your awareness, meet other bloggers (women and men too; all are welcome) at the BlogHer Conference in Chicago (July 27-29, 2007). It’s two days chock full of blogging discussions and hands on labs to practice your craft. Did I mention yet that I’m happy excited totally psyched to be attending? I am!!! 
The presentations at BlogHer ‘07 are organized around five themes.
- Art of Life: This track is devoted to the passions about which so many of us blog. . .food, art, photography, crafts, knitting, writing, music and more.
- Business of You: This track is devoted to personal and business advancement. We will discuss speaker and media training, self-branding and promotion, mentoring, turning your blog into a book or a business, and even managing your time, your finances, your blogging policies and best practices…the business of you.
- Community: This track is devoted to the care and feeding of communities. We’ll discuss building bridges between different online communities, how to galvanize social change with your blogs, and how blogging is a voice for different communities around the world.
- Identity: This track is about both the immutable and the dynamic aspects of our lives. Race, gender, age, sexuality, parenting, singledom…many of us blog about who we are, not what we do, and this track will explore your many facets.
- Technical: Day One’s technical track focuses on presentations that will help you decided how you want to get your geeky on, while Day Two will be more lab-oriented, so you can get your hands dirty.
Besides the great content (see schedules for day one and day two here), I’m really looking forward to meeting many awesome people. In fact, organizers celebrate the diversity of the attendees, writing, “There’s diversity in blogging experience (complete novices and old pros), ages (from students to retirees), areas of interest (from crafting to politics to entertainment to parenting to sex to…). We’ll have “famous” bloggers, women who make a living writing their blog, women who blog for companies, women who simply blog for themselves.”
For those who aren’t in Chicago, you can still be part of the festivities by joining BlogHer ‘07 in Second Life. As Queen Tureaud (aka Erin Kotecki Vest) describes the BlogHer in Second Life as an event that, “will offer the opportunity to experience the Chicago conference live on a virtual platform, complete with general sessions, audio feeds, and even a virtual cocktail party! Similar to BlogHer ‘07 in Chicago, the BlogHer Second Life virtual conference will feature an interactive format designed to inspire discussion. Not to mention FREE virtual goodies from our sponsors and vendors!” Does that sound great or what? Use the link above to find out how you can join BlogHer in Second Life.
So now you have 0 excuses for blogging away in solitary mode. Whether you can make it to Chicago or not, you can connect with other bloggers. Whether you’re a woman or a man, you can participate in BlogHer ‘07. Heck, even if you don’t currently blog, you can participate and see if you want to become a blogger someday.
So, for those of you trekking out to Chicago for BlogHer live, I’ll see you there. If you’ll be attending let me know so we can meet face-to-face. For the rest of you, have a great time at BlogHer in Second Life (Send a postcard, okay?).
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