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No, I didn’t go to BlogHer - for a few good reasons. It has nothing to do with me being a “him,” though. Largely, I stayed at home for Ponzi’s benefit. I didn’t want to take away from her experience at the event, as the BlogHer conference is ultimately about women in blogging - and she’s a woman who blogs. If I went, I’d do nothing more than (inadvertently) impose my own perspectives on the experience. I really believe she had a chance to learn more without me there.
Ponzi started blogging after watching me do it for a while - but she’s not a geek. I often drag her (term used loosely) to tech-centric events that she doesn’t care much about. BlogHer is a chance for her to mix and mingle with people who don’t eat, sleep, and breathe technology - and yes, those kinds of people really do exist! She’s a very independent thinker, and I have no doubt she’ll come home with several useful ideas and fun stories.
“Gnomedex” is starting to appear in a few BlogHer posts - a couple of them related to how Ponzi and I handle sponsors. Microsoft’s Conference Marketing, Part 2 and Definitely Femtastic should take a look at Microsoft Rewrote the “Rulesâ€Â? of Conference Sponsorship. It’s not easy to do a conference - but I must congratulate the entire BlogHer crew for pulling it off. I’ll be picking up Ponzi from the airport at Midnight tonight.
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July 31st, 2006
at 4:55pm
[...] BlogHer 06 Live Blogging Wiki- Begun by Amy Gahran (of The Right Conversation, Contentious, and much more…)- QUESTIONS: E-Mail amy@gahran.comMany people “live blogged” the BlogHer 2006 conference for female bloggers. I’m among them. And there are tons of post-conference wrap-up pieces hitting the web daily. Several of the live bloggers were given their assignments in advance and are linked to from this BlogHer page. Of course, many of us who live blogged this conference are just doing it on our own — and the coverage is varied and interesting. We’re not quite so easy to find from the BlogHer site, so I thought a wiki might be helpful.If you atttended BlogHer 06 in person or virtually and covered it in your blog, podcast, or through media-sharing sites like Flickr or YouTube, please add an appropriate link to this page. I think it’ll be helpful to organize these links according to the conference schedule. So rather than just posting a generic link to your blog’s home page, please take a moment to create a link to specific postings (Flickr page-tag combinations, etc.) under the events you covered.Thanks! GENERAL POST-MORTEMS BY BLOGHER ATTENDEES- Note: I moved this to the top since today that’s where most of the action is happening. Postings for Day 1 and Day 2 sessions and events are below.Jill AsherStowe Boyd ByJaneChristopher Carfi (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)ChirkyDrumsNWhistles (1, 2)Jarah EustonGeeky Mom Anastasia Goodstein Josh HallettJes susan KitchensKnitblog Stacy Libby Tom MaddoxSusan MernitMonkey NotionsMore Like ThisNo Fancy NameChris PirilloRobert ScobleSlashfoodTable for FiveThank you for not being perkyMary Tsao Tummy Troubles (bathroom wrapup)Chantel Williams Dave Winer (Note: spot-on followup commentary by Jeneane Sessum)Jen ZugDAY 1: FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2006Breakfast & networking [...]
Helen Wang
August 8th, 2006
at 11:35pm
I have a question for you - if you don’t mind: how did you get so many links to your blog? Thanks.