BlogHer – July 30 San Diego

Renee Blodgett pointed me to an interesting conference coming up, BlogHer. It is “is a network for women bloggers to draw on for exposure, education, and community. By holding a day-long conference on July 30, 2005, and establishing an online hub, BlogHer is initiating an opportunity for greater visibility, learning and success for individual women bloggers and for the community of bloggers as a whole.” The conference blog has established a useful forum for the ideas that are going to be covered. There is a session on how blogging can be used by organizations to further business goals both externally and internally. Renee and Rebecca MacKinnon are on the advisory board for the event. They are both cases in our book, Business Blogs: A Practical Guide.

The BlogHer site also mentions that women represent roughly half of all bloggers. A Perseus Development Corp. survey (12.04) reported 56 percent of blogs are created by women. A Pew Internet survey (1.05) reported that 43 percent of bloggers are women. This is a good thing.

Comments

[Sachin Sinha]

Bill,

Off late I have seen that you are increasingly tilting towards writing on the blogs. This also reflects from the new book that you have written. Many congratulations for that. Is that something you have switched towards or is it unintentional.

- Sachin
http://www.knowlogies.com

[John T. Maloney]

Bill --

Thanks. Good post.

Your New England Cluster and the Manhattan Cluster on Business Blogs are co-sponsored by WorldWIT: http://worldwit.org/

New England Business Blogs: http://www.kmcluster.com/bos/
New York Business Blogs: http://www.kmcluster.com/nyc/

Cheers,

John

[Bill Ives]

Sachin
Thanks for commenting on my blog. I have been writing about blogs from a business and knowledge management perspective for a while. I got excited about the possibilitieis last year and that was what drove my desire to write the book we just finished. I used my blog to try out some of the book ideas and to record stuff for use in the book but the book contains much that is not on my blog, including the 70 interviews, the guide book sections I did, and the contributions of my co-author.