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Cheers to Blogher! And many

PegCrossan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:45:31 -0600

Cheers to Blogher! And many happy returns of the day!

It's been a wonderful resource to this novice blogger, and I certainly appreciate all the work that goes into maintaining a site of this depth & breadth.

~Peg

Peggy, As She Is...

Kerflop, you're right

Lisa Stone — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:48:52 -0600

Larger text, a richer graphic design, a functional search and the ability to easily find our favorite topics, blogs and bloggers -- those are the holy grail of our redesign.

Thank you for volunteering to help -- I'd love your feedback. I'll post all redesign info in the "Web site" topic area. Here's the RSS feed for that topic: http://www.blogher.com/taxonomy/term/117/9/feed

Here's the current plan: We'll be back within the next couple of weeks with a few new visuals for you to comment on. At the same time, we have indeed begun working on a plan to leverage the new version of Drupal (4.7) and modules designed to help us poor users (a) understand what's here and (b) find what we're really looking for. Turns out that there are some exciting new ways to view the huge database driving this site.

Really looking forward to your additional thoughts once we've delivered these here!

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

The privilege is ours Elana

Lisa Stone — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:39:00 -0600

Elana, your posts on working and working women have bene a huge highlight for me as a reader. I love your tone and always know that when people poke a stick in the eye of women in the workplace, they are going to have to defend themselves. Thank YOU!

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

I hope the cake was chocolate!

Nancy White — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:35:25 -0600

Hey women - founders and everyone - congrats!

Nancy White
Former Blogher Contributing Editor, NPO/NGO
Full Circle Online Interaction Blog

New design, hurrah!!

kerflop — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:56:29 -0600

Happy birthday!

I am very excited to hear about the site re-design. The current design has really grated on my nerves - a lot of the text shows up pixelated and tiny on my iBook and makes things hard to read.

The interface is somewhat confusing to use as well. I know it is a major challenge organizing all of the amazing content here. I'm not a huge design corporation but I have 5+ years experience designing websites for women if any additional help/input is needed (ha, I'm so sure!). I look forward to the changes.

Jessica
kerflop

Happy Birthday!

Elana Centor — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:11:15 -0600

Last night when I arrived at my hotel in Seattle I sent a message..or I thought a sent a birthday message...must not have hit the post button. What I said yesterday, holds true today..a day after the birthday. Being part of this organization is an honor. While I was waiting for my delayed plane, a woman sitting next to me asked what I did. I shared I was a marketing consultant, a blogger and a contributing editor to Blogher..a network of women bloggers. It makes me smile every time I say it.

Thank you for making this a wonderful year. I feel privileged to be part of this network and am inspired by the talent and dedication of the people who are making Blogher what it is.

elana
Blogher Contributing Editor,Business&CareersFunnyBusiness

Thankful indeed

Lisa Stone — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:01:08 -0600

Hi everyone,

I'm just in from a wild and crazy day to find these incredible messages. Thank you, all of you. Here's to the next 12 months and the conversations to come.

Best,
Lisa

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Happy Birthday, BlogHer!

Birdie Jaworski — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:05:08 -0600

I spend hours each week reading the BlogHer blogs and forums and scrolling through the blogrolls. This is an incredible and vibrant community with so much to offer the world.

I leave birthday wishes for a seamless transition to the new look and feel of BlogHer in March, and another successful earth-changing year.

Birdie
Birdie's BlogHer Contributing Editor Blog
La Pajaro
Beauty Dish

Happy Birthday, BlogHer!

Mistress Of The Dorkness — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:49:39 -0600

Wow. It seems like BlogHer has always been here! This is pretty much the only place I can stomach reading news and enjoy reading about relationships.

Thank you to everyone involved in bringing all of these AMAZING women together!

I have laughed and cried and learned and been inspired.

I learned feminism is NOT a dirty word! And I've become even more dedicated to inspiring and supporting other women (I started interviewing women in design so that I can share their stories of success and support systems and inspire other women that they can thrive in a male-dominated field).

~standing round of applause~ Don't know how to thank all of these fabulous, brilliant women enough!

Melanie Perry
***not all who wander are lost***
Mistress of the Dorkness
2006 AUGI CAD Salary Survey

Happy Birthday, BlogHer!

Liz Rizzo — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:31:02 -0600

BlogHer has truly been one of the best things in my life since my spontaneous decision to go to BlogHer 2005. Thanks so much to everyone who contributes and works so hard to make it so awesome. :)

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess, The SexySmart Blog, and On The Lot.

What a happy year it has been!

Suzanne Reisman — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:56:40 -0600

In the year that it has been around, BlogHer has forged so many important connections to ideas and people that I can hardly believe it's only been a year! Congrats to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa, and all the other awesome editors. I am so proud and pleased to be working virtually by your sides. (Choking up.) Here's to another fantastic year!

Suzanne, BlogHer Contributing Editor - Feminsim & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS)& Other Rants

Proud to be at the party

mama2bna — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:30:42 -0600

Congratulations on your birth one year ago and your continued growth and success today. And thank you for creating such an incredible and diverse forum. I was thrilled to find you when I did. I relish my daily visits.

Cheers!

Hooray BlogHer!

Sarah — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:34:09 -0600

Great job, ladies. I am honored to be one of you.

BlogHer Contributing Editor, Sports and Fitness
Sarah and the Goon Squad
Strollerderby

You make it what it is Beth!

Lisa Stone — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:16:04 -0600

Thank you for everything you have done in the past year to report on Nonprofits and NGOs. I'm still in awe of the nearly $100k you raised for your favorite cause: . Here's to more of you showing us how it's done in '07.

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Congrats ladies!

HeatherB — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:01:17 -0600

And thanks for allowing all of us to be apart of your incredible site.

Heather B.
Personal Blog: No Pasa Nada
BlogHer CE: Business, Career & Personal Finance

Happy Birthday BlogHer.org

Lisa Stone — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:44:25 -0600

Congratulations everyone!

One year ago today the BlogHer Network was born. On Jan. 30, 2006, we launched this community hub at http://www.blogher.com, a huge step from the little three-woman blog we used to kick-off the first BlogHer Conference '05.

As I describe below, 2007 is going to bring more change...but first let's look at what we accomplished together in 2006.

In the past year, this community expanded steadily to become the premiere Web guide to women bloggers, a 24/7 embodiment of our mission: "To create opportunities for women bloggers to seek exposure, education and community."

Today BlogHer.org includes:

8,163 registered members (Not a member? Join here)

7,189 blogs in our blog directory, sorted A-Z or by 20+ topics. (List yours)

12,066 posts about what women are saying online, written by these amazing 60+ editors who blog expertly in two dozen hot topics that deliver breadth and depth on how women are using social media.

Our reporting about the community has made news of its own -- via the many sites and news outlets that have linked to BlogHer.org, and reported on and lauded conversations led by women in this community.

We have a global reach: In the past year, BlogHer's announcements and some of our thousands of RSS feeds recommending blogs by women have been picked up from The Times of India to The Guardian and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.

The temptation is strong to link my favorites from the past year's coverage, but I wouldn't do all the writing and exceptional conversations justice. You'll have to read them for yourselves: Art & Design, BlogHer Conferences, Business, Career & Personal Finance, Entertainment & Books, Fashion & Shopping, Feminism & Gender, Food & Drink, Health & Wellness.Hobbies, Crafts & DIY, Law, Life, Media & Journalism, Mommy & Family, Politics & News, Race, Ethnicity & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Research, Academia & Education, Sex & Relationships, Social Change, Non-Profits & NGOs, Sports & Fitness, Technology & Web, Travel and World.

What's next (hint: don't get comfy)

In 2006, we achieved much of our goal -- to do away with the question, "Where are the women bloggers?" by delivering a daily drumbeat about women who blog and use social media. We will continue this goal into the coming year; On BlogHer.org, anyone who writes and reads blogs can and should list blog(s)by women, and find others, learn what's hot in the blogosphere from BlogHer's incredible contributing editors, and report news of our own, professional and personal.

In 2007, our quest is to continue to develop services that support the power, authority and creativity of the women in this community. To that end, our first major project will be redesigning this Web site.

In the redesign of http://www.blogher.com, we are excited to deliver a number of innovations that many of you have recommended. Our primary quest is to make BlogHer.org easier to use -- for you to find blogs by topic, find bloggers themselves, and, if you're a blogger, TO BE FOUND.

We also are working on a new way to help you easily track comments by the community, to help you recommend your own blog headlines on the site, as well as to open the site to more community blog participation.

To help us in this effort -- and to turn up the volume on our design a little too -- we've invited Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes to help.

But we can only be successful if you help us too. So please stay tuned -- we're planning to bring the draft redesign to you in February for your feedback. When you see it, we'll want to know what you love, what you hate -- the works; we want to hear it.

So, congratulations again, birthday grrls. Our goal is to relaunch in March. Consider this post a raincheck -- you just have to wait a few months for your present.

Best,
Lisa

Photo credit: Contributing Editor Susan Mernit, who also had a birthday this month.

Lisa Stone is BlogHer Co-Founder. Her personal blog is Surfette.