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With BlogHer '09 fast-approaching, join us for an introduction to some of the women who will be speaking at this summer's hottest blogging conference. This week's highlights: Twanna Hines and Ree Drummond.
TWANNA HINES
Twanna Hines is a sociologist who writes about relationships and sex. She’s been featured on NPR, and her articles have been published in Glamour magazine, Huffington Post, New York Press, Lifetime, Nerve, Gen Art and Fast Company. Twanna has also been listed on AOL’s Black Voices Best Blogs.
With such exposure, it’s no wonder she has all types of readers, from all over the world, all with differing opinions. And that’s exactly what she’ll discuss on BlogHer’s “Enough About You…Who’s Reading You?” panel this summer.
Twanna keeps her readers in-the-know by implementing a LifeStream on her namesake site, which updates each time she interacts on Twitter, syndication sites or social media sites. She also posts juicy, semi-daily entries on her blog, Funky Brown Chick. She’s mastered the art of navigating her social life both online and off, implementing personal boundaries while remaining as transparent as possible (and when discussing relationships and sex, that can be a tad precarious).
In this BlogHer session, we'll find out whether Twanna's relationship with her readers has affected her writing, and how. And we'll get her to divulge tips and tricks of how she keeps readers coming back for more of her fresh, sizzling content.
REE DRUMMOND
Ree Drummond is also speaking on the BlogHer ’09 panel “Enough About You…Who’s Reading You?” Well known for her adventures living on a cattle ranch, her beautiful photography and the treats that come out of her kitchen, Ree (you may know her as The Pioneer Woman) has a soft spot for sharing about her life in the country.
Ree’s interest in her readers shines on her blog, evident from the contests and giveaways she runs, to the step-by-step recipe instructions she posts, to the awards she has won over the last three years because of her readers’ loyalty to her site. She stole the show this year at SXSW, with nominations for Best Food Weblog (a category that she won in 2008), Most Humorous Weblog and Best Writing of a Weblog (another category she won in 2008). Additionally, Ree won in the following 2009 weblog awards categories: Best Photography of a Weblog, Best Designed Weblog and Weblog of the Year.
Later this month, Ree is launching tastykitchen.com, a reader-driven online recipe database. And in October, Ree’s first cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks, will be published by William Morrow (a division of HarperCollins Publishers).
We’ll talk to Ree about her site, her relationship with her readers and how she has built her blog into the successful site it has become today (learning how to achieve similar results along the way).
