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Monday, May 22, 2006

Power to blogging women

Source: Contra Costa Times

Here's the irony. There are more women blogging than men. And yet, of the so-called "A-list" – the blogs that command a lot of attention and traffic – a relative few are authored by women. So how do men leverage their blogs into successful soapboxes while "hordes of women type away in digital obscurity?" There are no easy answers, but given that blogging was invented mostly by men, no surprise they have defined it. Enter BlogHer, a network founded by women for women bloggers. On word of mouth alone they have registered over 2,500 women bloggers...including me. BlogHer's first conference last year was attended by 300-plus women bloggers from around the country and sponsored by Yahoo and Google. Expect that number to double for their second annual conference being held July 28 and 29 in San Jose.