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Further commentary on BlogHer 08 from Salon: Thoughts on the NYT article

Yet further grist for the mill on BlogHer 08. The New York Times article in the Styles section has exploded into a lot of critiques via blogs, like Catherine Connors' post at Mama Pop. Weighing in on the issue now is Salon.com, with a response piece to the whole controversy by Rebecca Traister.

Enjoy- I'll add my thoughts on this later today as I'm off to teach a class...

Why Connection is the Name of the Entrepreneur's Game

I met this fabulous muse, Gwen Bell, blogger-editor-ladyabouttown, last year because I felt compelled to tell her she had rad style at the cocktail party at BlogHer 07. This moment spawned a conversation that has continued since then in order to expand both our universes. Today she dropped a little note on kirtsy letting people know about a post I had written on BlogHer 08. Cue the traffic.

Why do I share this with you? Besides a big huge thank you to Gwen for her support, it is important for those of you making a go of it in a non-traditional career to know this: technology is your friend. And, somewhat ironically, it can make you friends as well, as all of us at BlogHer 08 can attest. There shouldn't be anything extraordinary about this little story because social networking and technologies of that ilk are, quite simply, the best way to move ahead as an entrepreneur.

Read on for the applications you can't afford not to know about and use. Pronto:

image: gwenbell via flickr

BlogHer 08: Day Two, and Why I'd Make a Cruddy LiveBlogger

This was one of two convenient plugs I found at BlogHer 08 this year. This one showed up right next to the table I was sitting at for the Positive Posting and Beautiful Blogging session the morning of day 2 at BlogHer. Having had some success keeping a pretty good lock on the Introversion session the day before, I had started to fancy myself a future live blogger for next year's BlogHer. Woah. I will not toruture you with the mis-typed and frantic attempt to keep up with all the amazing thoughts and ideas that came out of this session. I will tell you that it would have been better if I had taken the lack of plugs as a sign to just sit and listen, and just read the real live blog post here. People had plenty to say I would have heard better if I wasn't frantically typing.

BlogHer 08: Day One Highlights

Sitting down to breakfast in the Westin Ballroom ready for another day of excitement. Day one was full of information, new connections, and great one-liners. My favorites:

From the DIY syndication panel: "I hate to get all SEO on you guys." -Krista Neher.

"I don't do stupid" -from the audience.

From Amy Gahran's writing session: "Avoid the [blogging] approach of 'I'm here! You can talk to me now!'" (on why blogging should be part of a larger conversation.

And my very favorite moment: the unfortunate typo that gave us a view of kirsty.com rather than kirtsy.com the "digg for ladies" if you check out kirsty.com, you'll see why this was a particularly funny moment.

I loved so much the energy that I remembered from last year of conversation after conversation with welcoming and thoughtful women who want to connect and learn about each other. I know I will have a lot of wonderful new blogs to follow in the coming year.

Plus- twitter. Wow. I can't say how much being an active participant has added to my experience. Maybe I appear to be a junkie to those outside this community, but it is amazing to be in on the parallel conversation happening on this platform. If you haven't tried it yet, try it now.

Ok- we're starting up again. On to another amazing day!

Introversion, Blogging, and BlogHer: Session One of the "Who We Are" Track

Hmm. No power source that I can see to plug into, so we'll see how long the laptop party lasts... Still, I am excited to be getting started. I've already seen the fabulous Tara from Lijit and met at least 10 people who's blogs I am dying to check out at the hotel tonight...

blogher08: here we go

Am online and happily typing away in the ballroom after some twitchy attempts to get online. For anyone stuck, know that the password and the user name are cap sensitive: copy the info exactly as it is on the screen and you will save yourself a lot of rumpled brow moments. Since cap sensitivity has saved me here, I am taking this point to go back from my all lower case typing that has been the norm on here for the past two years. It's started to feel a bit awkward, so I am giving it up in honor of my sign-in success...

More to come from sessions and conversations. So amazing to walk into this group of women (and a few men) knowing all the conversations I have will be informative and amazing. So far, that has certainly been the case. People couldn't be more welcoming here. Off to check out the swag...