BlogHer Conference: July 30th, 2005

[cross-posted to the Blogware blog]

Liz “I Speak of Dreams” Ditz pointed me to the BlogHer site, which has details about the upcoming BlogHer conference…

From the BlogHer

blog:

BlogHer 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.

BlogHer plans to achieve this goal by

providing three key items: exposure, education and

community:

• Exposure for women

  bloggers

  
  BlogHer’s goal is helping women

  bloggers identify, reach and grow the audience they seek

  by raising their visibility and searchability. Once women bloggers

  build relationships with each other — online and in person

  –- it will

  be easier for Web users to find more quality, relevant bloggers. A

  broader diversity of top-trafficked bloggers will follow.

• Education for women

  bloggers

  
  BlogHer’s conference schedule is being

  designed as an opportunity for

  women to educate themselves and each other, both technically and

  conversationally. Via scheduled talks, panels and applied training

  sessions, everyone who attends BlogHer’s conference, either online or

  in person, will have the opportunity to learn new technoilogies and

  best practives that help bloggers better express and market

  themselves.

  At the same time, participants will explore opportunities, challenges

  and key questions facing women bloggers, both those writing about

  professional sectors (such as journalism and technology) and those

  exploring issues fundamental to female identity online (such as

  motherhood and dating). An essential feature of BlogHer’s approach to

  these discussions is the “Room of Your Own” track, where women in the

  BlogHer community can host their own seminars.

• Community for women

  bloggers

  
  BlogHer’s conference and

  online hub are opportunities for women

  bloggers to develop a network of colleagues they trust and support.

  Only this kind of social network, steeped in shared interests and

  experience, will create a sustainable community capable of delivering

  ongoing, mutual exposure and education. That’s why the

  conference

  agenda and the site will afford plenty of time for discussion, formal

  meet-ups, ad-hoc conversations and fun. Because community begins at

  the

  conference, and we expect it to continue at BlogHer.org all year

  long.

For more information about this conference,

visit the BlogHer blog.