July 2007

Business Cards!

July 31, 2007

I have come home from BlogHer with a stack of business cards, the like of which I have never seen in my life. Business cards at BlogHer are a very different thing than average business cards. They aren’t just your contact details. They’re your spirit, your personality. They’re marketing tools. They’re a way to express […]

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BlogHer07: The Aftermath

July 30, 2007

So I’m back from BlogHer 07, both the conference and the unconference. As with BlogHer Business in March, this was a fantastic experience for me. I’m still exhausted, so this post probably won’t be all that coherent, but bear with me. Highlights: Seeing all the awesome faces I remembered from March, and seeing that they […]

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Directing your blog to its own Domain Name

July 30, 2007

At BlogHer on Saturday, I attended the technical session to find out a little more about working with Blogger. During this session, several women asked how to redirect their Typepad or Blogger blog to their own domain. This was a process I found confusing when I went through it, and I guess that’s a common […]

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BlogHer Live Blog: Inclusion and Exclusion

July 28, 2007

This is the edited cleaned-up copy of the Live Blog notes for this session. Please report any errors or miscredits to me in the comments or via email. Thanks! The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Online Communities Comments, link-love, blog-rolls…who’s in, who’s out? The Internet has the potential to be the great equalizer, to […]

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Swag Whore

July 28, 2007

I arrived at BlogHer with a suitcase and a laptop wheelie bag. I am leaving BlogHer so far with a suitcase, a laptop wheelie bag, a BlogHer swag bag containing a leather box with toiletries, CDs, a potholder (?), a memory stick, lip balm, journal, and more. I also have a new AOL green laptop […]

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BlogHer Live Blog: Mentoring

July 27, 2007

These are the final notes for the Mentoring and Coaching session. Please let me know in the comments if there are any errors or miscredits. Thanks! Mentoring and CoachingLast year during the BlogHer Getting Deeply Geeky session the subject of mentors came up. So few of the techie women in the session had had women […]

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BlogHer Live Blog: Does the blogosphere need an intolerance intervention?

July 27, 2007

These are the final notes for the Intolerance session. Please note any feedback or miscredits into the comments. Thanks! Does the Blogosphere Need an Intolerance Intervention?What are the benefits and drawbacks of speaking across divides, and trying to be a “bridge”? What do we gain and lose when we assume we’re blogging to people a […]

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BlogHer Live Blog: Speaker Training

July 27, 2007

Please note… these are the live blog raw notes. Notes will be reviewed and re-posted early next week! Speaker TrainingLots of BlogHers point out the lack of women on conference speaking rosters. We not only have to address the demand side, but we can each create the supply. Speaking publicly is an excellent way to […]

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Landed in Chicago!

July 27, 2007

On three hours’ sleep after the Police concert in Montreal (more on that later), hair afrizz and coffee all over my pants due to the tiny seats on United and the spacehogging bozo beside me, I am in a standard Chicagoland kamikaze cab headed for the Navy Pier and BlogHer! I. Needmoresleep. Unfortunately not likely […]

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Unemployment

July 26, 2007

Since I’ve been ungainfully non-employed, I’ve noticed a few things. Things that mean my “touch” with what I had previously considered the real world is getting pretty vague. I no longer know what day it is, for example. Is it Monday? Is it Thursday? No clue. Oddly, though, I still look forward to the weekends, […]