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Three Awesome Blogging Women

Jody DeVere -- Ask Patty — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:19:26 -0500

Way to go Jory, Lisa and Elisa!

Women-owned businesses in the United States have grown at a rate twice
that of male-run businesses over the past two decades. The bad news is,
they amount to only 41 percent of companies nationally, according to
the Center for Women's Business Research. While there are an estimated
10.4 million women-owned business in the nation. Women business owners often face more challenges than their
male counterparts, namely in raising capital.

Congratulations on meeting the challenge and winning!

Best Regards,

Jody DeVere
CEO/President
www.askpatty.com
www.carblabber.com

WE NEED HEROINES!

sallyhuss — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:22:37 -0500

You are one of mine! Well done, Lisa. As you move up the ladder you take a ton of women with you. Thanks!

I am a new Blogher. For over 20 years I have combined my art and writings in various forms -- greeting cards, books, gift art, etc. -- and sent them out into the world for people to enjoy. Blogher seems the perfect venue to extend these little messages further. I would appreciate your taking a look at what I do and commenting on my blog. Many thanks.

Smiles, Sally

Email: sally@sallyhuss.comBlogher Blog: http://www.blogher.com/blog/sallyhuss/Website: http://www.sallyhuss.com/Sign up for our Happy News at: http://www.sallyhuss.com/awebertest.htm

Good Show!

HeidiChick — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:03:31 -0500

Yah! What great work, you all just make us so proud to be BlogHer folks every single day : )

We started blogging because of Peter Naylor - he, and his peeps REALLY GET IT. I mean REALLY. (if they get us, they can get anyone!!!)

Lisa, thanks for the conf call - just a reminder, I think an Audio Feed would rock. Not just for "radio" - but also podcasts!!

Cheers!

Heidi Hanzel -ChickChat Radio

GREAT NEWS!

mara — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:01:03 -0500

This is wonderful news and I cannot wait to see what will happen in the next few months. Blogher is going to rule the world!!!!

Mara http://24stepstogo.blogspot.com/

Validation

AnissaMayhew — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:27:53 -0500

Can I just tell you how exciting it is to see more and more of the world taking the blog community as a force to be reckoned with...as opposed to a bunch of women with too much time on their hands? I'm enthralled to see what happens next. Thanks for taking us all along!

Anissa Mayhew

www.hope4peyton.org

www.onevoiceproject.ning.com

A Wonderful Accomlishment

Megan Smith — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:24:05 -0500

So I'm at 36,000 feet on my way to San Francisco and my Blackberry starts vibrating off the hook---by the way something I thought couldn't happen in the air. Anyway, I take a look and there are about 30 emails about this very exciting news.

The guy next to me saw me grinning like an idiot and immediately pretended to go to sleep. But no matter. He didn't know he was sitting next to someone who's part of a group of talented, dynamic and forward thinking women.

His loss.

Congratulations to everyone involved in putting this very important piece of BlogHer's future in place.

Megan
BlogHer Contributing Editor, TV/YouTube
Megan's Minute
Video Runway

Fantastic!

Laracolvin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:51:39 -0500

That will be perfect. Thanks - hope it doesn't add too much work! :)

Notions of Identity

Bring on the prominence

marianmerritt — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:18:34 -0500

Deals like this mean the eyes of the world are on you/us/we bloggers!

this is terrific and I can't wait to see how the discussions go this weekend. I'm a newbie blogger with much to learn from this group.

Marian Merritt I blog on Family Online Safety topics at Ask Marian

So exciting!

Liz Rizzo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:07:14 -0500

I am so proud and honored to be a part of BlogHer. :)

Congrats, you guys, on rocking so totally!

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

Congratulations!

Jill Miller Zimon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:46:44 -0500

I hope you're taking a minute (ok, a second) to really enjoy what you've accomplished. It is these kinds of connections that will expand involvement and engagement on so many levels that mean something. Thank you so much for the vision and hard work.

Jill
Writes Like She Talks

Hi Lara

Lisa Stone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:25:13 -0500

Thanks for asking! How about this, since the BlogHerAds team is going to be at the conference through Sunday: We'll develop a FAQ for the BlogHerAds members who are coming to the conference and post it on the BlogHerAds.com site next week. As always, we'll update the BlogHerAds newsletter with the latest and greatest.

Look forward to meeting you at BlogHer '08!

Best,
Lisa

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Exciting!

Laracolvin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:07:00 -0500

Congrats to all of you! This is exciting news. Quick question: if we missed the Ad Network conference call today and are headed to BlogHer 08 during the second option tomorrow, will there be an alternative?

Again, I can't tell you how happy I am for you. What an accomplishment, and we are all lucky to be able to be part of this community.

Lara

Notions of Identity

That is so FABULOUS!!

GeekMommy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:55:55 -0500

Just one more way for the rest of the world to find and here the many amazing voices here on BlogHer!

Congrats to all the parties - but kudos to NBCU for figuring out what WE already knew!! The best always end up at BlogHer!

Lucretia (aka GeekMommy)

Raising a child in a digital world, still a digital girl

Go on with your BADD selves!

Lovebabz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:06:28 -0500

Stay true to what you do and all shall be well!

Love,

Babz

I can't speak to "poop," but

Super Jive — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:06:24 -0500

I can't speak to "poop," but PLEASE own your vagina posts. :D

SJ also writes at I, Asshole.

Newsflash: BlogHer enters strategic partnership with iVillage, BravoTV, Oxygen

Lisa Stone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:27 -0500

We're writing to share some exciting news. BlogHer has begun a strategic partnership with three NBC Universal properties: iVillage -- the leading destination site for women online -- BravoTV.com and Oxygen.com.

As co-founders, Elisa, Jory and I are extremely excited about the opportunity this partnership presents to raise the profiles and voices of the extraordinary women blogging on this site - a key part of BlogHer's mission. In addition, Women@NBCU, the company’s new content and marketing initiative geared to women, will collaborate with BlogHer on joint advertising sales, which we expect to raise the earning potential of the 2,200 bloggers who are our partners in the BlogHerAds publishing network.

We cannot imagine better partners than iVillage, Bravo and Oxygen, with their superior programming and tools, both online and on-air. The NBCU team is led by Lauren Zalaznick, creator of Top Chef and Project Runway, who is now President of Women and Lifestyle Entertainment networks for NBC Universal.

As you'll read in today's announcement -- and can see for yourself if you visit their sites -- iVillage, BravoTV.com and Oxygen.com are regularly featuring headlines from BlogHerAds member blogs and BlogHer.com. As you can also see on our homepage today, BlogHer will feature these partners too, promoting iVillage headlines regularly across our network, and cross-promoting new programs on BlogHer.com where appropriate.

Congrats everyone! We see this partnership as a terrific confirmation of women as power users and powerful consumers, and a compliment to what we are all creating here together.