Hi Moms,
Do you blog? Have you ever thought about blogging? If not...YOU WILL! :-)
It is one of the best ways to keep in touch with other moms, to tell your stories to protect your sanity, to share your tips to save others' sanity, and to perhaps make some money working from home...so many reasons that blogging and in particular the "mommy blogs" are taking over CyberSpace!
According to TechCrunch, there are already 93 million active blogs in the world and 175,000 new bloggers are joining the race every day!
BlogHer, www.blogher.org, is one of the leading blog networks for females and I had the pleasure of attending their annual conference, BlogHer07, this past week in Chicago where 750 female bloggers soaked up the latest blogging technology, tips, trends, and networking sites.
I attended the conference representing Simply Hired, www.simplyhired.com, who recently launched a new free product called Job-a-matic, www.jobamatic.com, that allows bloggers to add relevant and valuable content that they can monetize to their site(s). If you are a blogger today - check it out and start making money today!
Elizabeth Edwards (wife of presidential candidate John-yeah, that one) took to the stage for her keynote speech with Lisa Stone and then graciously joined us at our cocktail party. The woman hung out with us bloghers all night. She met everyone and answered questions about anything and literally was one of us. She impressed me with her genuine grace, passion for community involvement and the sheer fact that she writes all of her own blog posts without an editor is simply the icing on the cake for this amazing influential women!
Many of the bloggers asked Elizabeth advice on how to make change regarding more prominence for blog sites via the major search engines. Elizabeth passionately suggested that all bloggers need to rally together (see photo) and email the major search engines like Google and Yahoo! and as a united voice insist that blog search become more prominent on their sites. Even though Google was a sponsor of this event, Ask.com is the only major search engine that I am aware of that is already doing this today and we hope the rest will follow to acknowledge the importance of this growing media channel.
Check out the event photo in my photo album here!
Please comment here on what blogs you are reading and if you are a blogger please share a description and link to your site so others can benefit!
Thanks,
Julie
aka: mommy blogger
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