BlogHer - BlogHers Act: Canadian Edition! - Comments

Canadians Rock!

PunditMom — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:50:16 -0500

Especially since I got invited to be an honorary Canadian!

I've posted the link on my

zchamu — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:25:06 -0500

I've posted the link on my women's communities, which have many members who are bloggers. Great initiative!

SassyMonkey, I say hello today from Halifax... the rain misses you, Maritimer!

ThreeSeven... not just a number anymore

Contributing Editor

Denise — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:00:33 -0500

You aren't dumb at all and that is an excellent question. I am very glad you asked it.

We have contributing editors who blog on BlogHer in various topic areas. We call them CEs for short. :-)

~Denise
Fast Times @ Homeschool High & Flamingo House Happenings

Em..am I really dumb....

Crunchy Carpets — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:55:55 -0500

what does CE mean?

Look for me at http://crunchycarpets.com or check out the ladies at www.wetcoastwomen.com

Canada Acts

HerBadMother — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:20:46 -0500

Her Bad Mother

We TOTALLY want to reach beyond the momosphere and CERTAINLY beyond the Ontario-sphere (which is why we got in touch with Wet Coast Women right away) and are frantically working on developing strategies - beyond the BlogHer exposure! - to get the word out. Ideas are welcome!

And if you hadn't heard of the initiative until today - well, it was only launched yesterday. We're trying to hit the ground running, but our virtual legs will only go so fast. We couldn't possibly give the heads up to all the Canadian BlogHers that we know in advance ;)

Jen, Sassy - you could help get the word out by writing about it and/or posting buttons (which we hope to get soon from the BlogHer crew). And if you know of any Canadian blogger networks that might help spread the word for us, let me know and we'll add them to our contact list.

lololol

sassymonkey — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:10:20 -0500

I *am* in Toronto...for at least the next 6 days when I'm packing it in and moving back to Montreal (which is also not where I'm from - I'm a Maritimer originally).

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

aslo a mother who blogs

JenB — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:02:17 -0500

And a Canadian and a CE for Canada. This is my first exposure to it as well. I think those of us not-in-Toronto are just sensitive to the geographic thing. :-) I am here in Edmonton. Yay for ACTing!

www.jenandtonic.ca
contributing editor, World blogs :: Canada

Yes but regional

sassymonkey — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:06:41 -0500

And for the record I'm not knocking on the idea. I think it has merit. I get that they want to hear from a wide-range of people and I'm honestly very curious about how they plan to reach out to different groups.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

Hey Sassy...

Crunchy Carpets — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:58:21 -0500

Wet Coast Women is a site for all women bloggers ..not just mommybloggers..

I think that the MBT crew want to hear from ALL women bloggers (and the dudes' too!)

Look for me at http://crunchycarpets.com or check out the ladies at www.wetcoastwomen.com

Curious...

sassymonkey — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:51:34 -0500

What is plan to reach out to non-mommybloggers? I'm Canadian, a blogger, and a CE and this is the first I've heard about this.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

The West is REPRESENTED!!

Crunchy Carpets — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:29:53 -0500

Us westcoasters have joined the Canuck cause over at Link TextWetCoastWomen.

I will be posting my own Canadian cause on Crunch soon too!

Look for me at http://crunchycarpets.com or check out the ladies at www.wetcoastwomen.com

BlogHers Act: Canadian Edition!

cooper and emily — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:23:18 -0500

Editor's note: What do you want BlogHers to act on in the next year -- globally and in the U.S. election? Please, Take our survey and let us know. Thanks!

The magic of BlogHers Act continues to grow by the day, and here is one of the best examples of that yet.

Catherine Connors of Her Bad Mother and MommyBlogs Toronto sent this email over the weekend:

"So, myself and the ladies (and man) of MommyBlogsToronto have been beyond inspired by all the activity around BlogHer Act, and began having discussions about how we could carry some of that inspiration into the Canadian blogHERsphere. The secondary push from BlogHer Act to address legislative issues in the US is, we think, something that we should be doing in Canada, too."

Do you know what that means!?!

Because BlogHer.org is so cool and Catherine and her team are so awesome, yesterday (Canada Day, appropriately) BlogHers Act - Canada was born. Yes, the BlogHers Act initiative is now multi-national.

Check out this post, and this one from Catherine. And another from Sandra Diaz has some great detail on their plans.

Catherine wrote:

"We beat our collective chest and we write and write and write, but where's the action? Real action, not just the action of putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard (which is not to be discounted - who can deny that the

Just Posts, with all of their heart and soul, make a difference? - but still.) Shouldn't we be acting? Well, BlogHer is acting, as most of you probably already know, through the fantabulous initiative that is BlogHers Act, which is encouraging women bloggers to come up with global and US-based plans for action on causes to be decided upon at the conference. And, now, MBT is teaming up with them to spearhead a Canadian version of this initiative. That's right. We're getting in on the action, Canuck-style. Our immediate goal is two-fold: to come up with a list of causes that women bloggers (not just mom-bloggers) from around Canada want to get behind, and then to narrow down that list to at least one cause (maybe more? can we do it?) that we will act upon directly over the coming year. The long-term plan? To bring Canadian women bloggers together to take real action. To effect real change."

We will say it again (and again and again) -- You all ROCK. It just gets better and better. There is so much possibility and potential and we are counting the days until BlogHer (24!) and working with you to figure this out and to put a "plan" for making a difference into place. In the meantime, email us, we look forward to hearing more of your ideas for ACTION.

AND remember, if you haven't already, to VOTE on the issues you want to get behind. You have until July 8th. Spread the word!