Tag: Blogging

I still have a few session notes to post, but I wanted to share some thoughts on Blogher before everybody moves to the next tech/web conference and Blogher becomes ancient history. Let’s start with my gratitude for Jory, Elise, and Lisa for making the conference so amazingly affordable (a room for $75 a night?...

(Attending the session: Building your audience with Elise Bauer (Simply Recipes, Learning Movable Type) – blogged live by Whitney) Three pillars of building an audience: create great content, engage your community, use technology. Content The most successful blogs are useful, entertaining, timely, or a combination of the three. Did I mention useful? You need...

(Attending the session: Ten types of Web writing with Lisa Stone and Lynne d. Johnson – blogged live by mir) This session addressed the differences between writing for print and writing for blogs. Lynne listed the need for a conversational tone, increased personalization, and differentiation from the “corporate” voice as the most important changes...

My grandmother was a practical and successful business woman. She managed to live well without a husband for most of her life, opened a women clothing store with her sister after the war (in the South of Italy and starting from nothing), and successfully managed it for many years, through changes in fashion and...

BlogHer, the conference “where the women bloggers are” is finally here; I am leaving for the Bay tomorrow. I am so nervous!! The conference is sold out: and there are so many people that I have been waiting to meet… I will try to leave home my usual conference-shy self and being sociable. I...