BlogHer - conferences - Comments

Still need a pass

CajunMama — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:15:18 -0600

Hey Pam. I'll be there supporting you and Sheila. No worries on that end. Room is booked and paid for (w/ comp internet and daily breakfast) and I'm driving RedBugg in, since it is waaaay cheaper for me. Now if I could only get someone to sponsor my pass.........

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Crossing "figure out airport transport" off my list

debontherocks — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:46:26 -0600

Awesome. Good reminder that I need to get my plans locked down. I'm going to be looking for you there!

Deb
www.debontherocks.com blog
www.3smartgirlz.com consulting

Good Advice

Doris — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:39:14 -0500

Thanks so much for the advice. I've attended many conferences, but I'll be attending my first Blogher conference in New Orleans and it's nice to have a plan.

Doris

The Leaky Cauldron

Sex 2.0

amberlrhea — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:16:54 -0500

I definitely recommend the Sex 2.0 conference in Atlanta on April 12 - and not just because I'm the one organizing it! :) You can find out all the details at http://sex20con.com, but here is a synopsis of what it's all about:

Sex 2.0 will focus on the intersection of social media, feminism, and sexuality. How is social media enabling people to learn, grow, and connect sexually? How is sexual expression tied to social activism? Does the concept of transparency online offer new opportunities or present new roadblocks — or both? These questions, and many more, will be addressed within a safe, welcoming, sex-positive space.

Respecting the confidentiality and protecting the identities of participants who wish to maintain a degree of anonymity will be a top priority at Sex 2.0.

Y'all come!

I love all the writing about

Super Jive — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:44:22 -0600

I love all the writing about this. "Something" is happening. But what?

Your Pop Culture Librarian also writes almost daily at I, Asshole.

Me, too

Virginia DeBolt — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:53:29 -0600

I was fascinated by the announcement of this oddball conference at Harvard. Maybe Anil is right and something is happening, although I find memes annoying and distracting. Someone must find them meaningful.

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http://first50.wordpress.com/

What a fabulous idea

Skye — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:02:34 -0600

Laina, thanks for highlighting this!
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lilradad — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:55:43 -0600

I'm a Filipino blogger and I'm so glad I came on this site cause I wouldn't have gotten to chance to read this entry. It's too bad I live in the Philippines but I would love to be part of the conference even if to just help promote it.

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."
- Buffy Summers

I smiled

Virginia DeBolt — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:04:01 -0600

when I got my SXSW flyer with the equal mix of men and women, too. And, as you pointed out, SXSW gets additional points for not being 100% white, as does BlogHer.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Networking's bad rap...

Robin Ogden — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:36:52 -0500

Thanks for the post, Elana.

Networking is such and incredible tool and it really does get a bad rap due to all of the 'one way' networking and 'pushy sales' that can stem from it. I want to also put my vote in for eWomen Network (mentioned by Tish) - an organization built around teaching members the true art of networking. I've been a memeber for nearly 2 years and am completely energized by their way of connecting and building networks. You can check them out here http://www.ewomennetwork.com they have chapters all over the US.

Coming from the 'career development' marketplace, I often talk to people about the 'care and feeding' of their networks and remind them that the #1 mistake of networking is approaching it as 'how can someone fill my need' instead of just the opposite - how can you fill a need or provide a resource. Effective networking is the key to obtaining new opportunities and as I always like to point out to clients - 80% of the job seekers find their next opportunity via networking, not job ads or job boards.

Ok - I'll get off my networking horse, but thanks for keeping the flame burning on how many things can blossom when you approach networking from a way to give vs. a way to 'get' (the old saying "you get what you give").

Robin Ogden
http://www.firedupcareers.com

So much to learn and so many new rules.

juliaward — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:31:20 -0500

This article and resulting comments have given me some great information and a starting point for networking as I begin to reinvent myself as a writer after an injury last year.

I was astounded at how much networking has changed and not changed with advances in technology and what seems to be our regressing social skills. Seems like the more technology we invent the fewer social skills we retain. Maybe technology just makes it too easy to be cheeky and troll through the internet neighborhood.

Great article!

blessings,
julia

http://juliaward.typepad.com/a_blinding_heart/

Gracious, I had no idea!

Elana Centor — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:48:27 -0500

In thinking about networking I never connected any dots to hurt feelings or perceived Blogher hierarchy. While I don't want to minimize that some people may have felt slighted or that the conference didn't meet all of their personal expectations, I'm not sure that those are issues that fall under this discussion about networking.

Each of us have our own reasons for attending a conference like Blogher. Depending on those reasons Blogher was either a fabulous experience or it may have missed your personal needs.

I hope that the people who are disappointed share their thoughts and solutions for how to improve to improve the experience.

To me the networking was just one part of the conference. For me, the networking was not my primary reason for attending and I believe given the sessions, tracks and multiple shared learning that was available, that the Blogher conference was created that networking was an important by side benefit of being there.

If a lot of attendees want there to be more opportunities to network in the traditional sense then perhaps there could bea separate track devoted to networking where activities on networking can be explored and exploited.

Just a thought.

elana
Blogher Contributing Editor,Business&CareersFunnyBusiness

I am not sure I buy it's a woman thing

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:28 -0500

In my experience, networking etiquette has been abused at the hands of men at LEAST as often as at the hands of women.

I wrote a post about networking several years ago during the nadir of the Silicon Valley bust that reinforces Tish's point above

Key excerpt:
"My definition of the purpose of networking: to connect two or more parties for their mutual benefit, with the understanding that you may not be one of the parties, and the benefit may not occur now."

I get spam and specious connection requests from both men and women, and men as much as women seem to hold unrealistic expectations about how I should respond to such requests.

If anything, I MIGHT be willing to say that women seem less likely to do the networking they could do...but not that they do more of it badly :)

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Blame nurture...or nature...or nursery school

ByJane — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:17:53 -0500

I think Carol Gilligan et al would have a lot to say about this:

"Many of the commenters on the posts I read in this vein blame women en masse for the hurt feelings. As in, this kind of clique-ishness is just what happens when you get a bunch of women together. WTF??? What kind of skewed, self-hating attitude is that? Why does networking become something Machivellian and scheming when applied to a conference of women?"

Maybe the answer is to confront it head on, rather than deny or decry it. This is the way we are. How can we use it to our best advantage? How can we avoid it sabotaging us? Maybe we need a Meditation Room at Blogher08.

By Jane
ByJane.blogspot.com

Blame nurture...or nature...or nursery school

ByJane — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:59:50 -0500

I think Carol Gilligan et al would have a lot to say about this:

"Many of the commenters on the posts I read in this vein blame women en masse for the hurt feelings. As in, this kind of clique-ishness is just what happens when you get a bunch of women together. WTF??? What kind of skewed, self-hating attitude is that? Why does networking become something Machivellian and scheming when applied to a conference of women?"

By Jane
ByJane.blogspot.com