BlogHer Conference - Right Here In San Jose!
This just in from the Boston Globe:
The second annual BlogHer conference, with corporate sponsors like General Motors
and Johnson & Johnson, will be held July 28-29 in San Jose, Calif.
Attendance is expected to double from last year’s session, which was
supported by Yahoo
and Google and attracted more than 300 women from around the country.
Last year’s theme was “Where are the women bloggers?" The theme for
BlogHer ‘06 is “How is your blog changing your world?"
Indications
are that it’s changing it plenty for some women. Boston-based BlogHer
member Lisa Williams, who attended BlogHer ‘05, is the founder of
H2OTown.info, a community news blog for Watertown.
“What struck
me was how different the hallway noise was compared to other
professional conferences I’ve attended," she said. “The hallways
echoed with warm and excited `Ooohs’ as women met the women whose blogs
they had been reading."
Said Grier: “Face-to-face is very
important. Meeting another person makes what’s on the blog real. At
BlogHer I met people I’ve never known, but who really knew me because
they had been reading my blog."
In May, BlogHer launched an ad
network for its membership to channel economic benefits back to the
women who blog. The trick, BlogHer founder Des Jardins said, is to
“help bridge the gap and yet still maintain the sanctity of their
blogs." As a result, the ad network is totally voluntary. But the
economic benefit to women bloggers is not just in the few dollars they
may earn in ad revenue; it’s in the human connections they make through
their blogs. Increasingly, the conversations begun on blogs are
spawning opportunities…
Read the lot and come participate if you can. Alas, I shall be at an NLP World Health graduate training during this time, but my thoughts are with you HerBloggers!
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