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BlogHer ’08
Anne-Marie is a 40-something WAHM, professional blogger, freelance writer, and social media consultant. Besides running several of her own blogs including A Mama’s Rant, This Mama Cooks! and My Readable Feast, she has blogged at ClubMom, 451Press, b5Media, DotMoms, and for several clients. In 2006, her blog Citizen Mom’s Family Journal for Studio One Networks won a webaward and a Silver Davey Award.
When she’s not showing Colorado book authors the hows and whys of blogging and social media, Anne-Marie is a community moderator at a social networking website for mothers. You can learn more about her at The Write Spot.
She co-founded BlogHer as a labor of love in 2005 with Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, and in two short years BlogHer has grown to be the number-one guide to and source for blogs by women. BlogHer serves its mission of creating opportunities for education, exposure, community and economic empowerment with its web community, sold-out conferences and advertising network that now features over 1,200 network members.
Elisa Camahort was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging and currently writes nine blogs. She blogs at various times about marketing, health issues, green and eco-conscious living, being a vegan, and reality TV talent shows like American Idol and Project Runway! She’s a frequent public speaker in the areas of business blogging and online community, and has been published frequently, including her monthly column for the Silicon Valley Metro, Silicon Veggie.
Kyran Pittman was working toward respectability as a poet when she started screwing around with blogs and gave birth to her bastard love child, Notes to Self.
Notes is a cherished personal space in the midst of domestic life. It's a blank piece of typing paper in an old Underwood. It's a corkboard covered with family photos and milestones. It's a set of field notes on motherhood, marriage, and America, written by an expatriate Newfoundlander who wakes up every day wondering how she came to live in any of those mad realms.
It can be whatever it makes up its mind to be. She spoils it that way.
In return, Notes has launched Kyran's career as a freelance essayist, with publication credits in Good Housekeeping magazine and the Toronto Globe and Mail. It also provides her with a merry way to make lips curl in certain literary circles.
Kyran blogs shamelessly for Flawed But Authentic, AOL's WalletPop, and is the Mind, Body, Spirit Editor of Kirtsy. She is working on a first collection of essays, and is writing a coming-of-age memoir, So Far For Beauty.
I'm a Work-at-Home Mom of two who survived the fires of infertility and adoption. I love dark chocolate, mojitos, and the Denver Broncos. My overarching quest is to live more mindfully.
I blog about adoptive parenting, politics and spiritual matters at Weebles Wobblog.
And I tell our family-building stories at Drama 2B Mama.
Marilyn is a 30-something stay at home mom to two boys and one new baby girl and lives in Reno, Nevada. She blogs just about every day over slackermama . com about parenting, marriage, blogging and life. She also reviews products, books and anything that catches her fancy over at slackermama reviews. Marilyn just recently started a blog for moms who use cloth diapers called Cloth Diaper Mamas. As if that weren't enough, she is also a new contributor over at Blissfully Domestic, talking about babies and pregnancy. She even blogged, once upon a time, for 451Press about reality TV, Desperate Housewives and parenting websites.
This will be Marilyn's third BlogHer conference and she is STILL feeling a little nervous about all the fabulous women who will be there and interacting with them. But, like the previous two conferences, she's not going to let her nerves stand in her way of having a great time. She's looking forward to sharing some of her ideas with other introverted bloggers out there.
Blogging from Alaska, I started my blog Scribbit at the pestering of my tech-junkie husband in June 2005. I messed around with nothing much to show for my weak efforts until the next summer when I read about the Blogher 2006 conference and decided it was time to get serious because blogging was obviously the path to riches and fame. Now, 2 years and 1000 posts later I'm not rich and I'm not famous but I'm completely addicted--having worn off the lettering on my keyboard as proof of my inability to shut up--and will blog until I die. Or until someone offers me a six-figure job as a travel writer. That would be sweet.
Many, many years ago (back when I wore shoulder pads and bangs of unusual size) I graduated from Brigham Young University with degrees in English and journalism then worked as an editor, writer and research assistant. Now I have four children, two girls and two boys age 14 to 5, and I write about motherhood in Alaska--posting my favorite recipes, tips, crafts, activities and weekly giveaways mixed with stories of life in the Last Frontier.
Rita Arens authors Surrender, Dorothy and is a contributing editor for BlogHer and Cool Mom Picks. She writes about parenting, politics, work, writing, marriage and the blogosphere. Reviews for products and services are covered at Surrender, Dorothy: Reviews.
Rita's first book, parenting anthology Sleep Is for the Weak (a BlogHer book) will be released from Chicago Review Press in September 2008. Rita's writing has also appeared in business magazines and literary journals, and her blog has been covered by Businessweek online and the Kansas City Star.
