It's Just About...Me: The Life Blogger Beyond Labels

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Personal Identity

We may be single, or child (but definitely not family) free. We can be foodies, politicos or photographers, or any of these, depending. One thing is for sure: we find ourselves uncategorizable, outside of what’s often considered the norm in today’s blogging world. We may know what it's like to hesitate when asked "So, what do you blog about?" We're not often sponsored by Names You Know and may not have the following that writers with more defined niches have. What does it all mean for those writers who write about . . . themselves?

 

Join Stacy, Kris, Kristen and Laurie to discuss writing our stories as personal bloggers. Just because it's a lot about us, who else and what are we writing for - and about? Can life bloggers without labels be successful in the blogosphere and find a community in which we can thrive?  Where are we heading? And what will be our legacy as personal bloggers? Join us to discuss what it means to be a personal blogger without a defined niche in the current online world and to meet others, like you, who are passionate about writing beyond the box.

 

Anastacia Campbell, JurgenNation

Kris, NotYetAWino

Kristabella, FullofSnark

Laurie White, LaurieWrites


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Love it.

February 27, 2010 - 8:14am

This is totally me. Still.

 

Visit my blogs at ThreeSeven (all that's irrelevant and amusing) and ecochick (all that's green, cool and Canadian).

 

I was thinking the same thing, Shannon

February 27, 2010 - 9:40am

Yay, you guys!

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Kristy blogs funny stuff at
She Just Walks Around With It

 

Yeah, and that is why I like you and Shannon...

February 28, 2010 - 11:50am

You know, just a little bit. ;) 

I have found some of the best people I know as  a result of this exercise and I think that's such an important component of it. 

Laurie

LaurieWrites

Photos on Flickr

 

We are history

February 27, 2010 - 9:52am

I totally love this, and I think we're diarists, autobiographers, and sometimes pundits.

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Liz Henry
Composite: Tech & Poetics
lizzard@bookmaniac.net

 

I've been thinking about this a lot, Liz.

February 28, 2010 - 11:49am

Since I posted it I've been thinking a lot about the public nature of what is essentially online journaling for many of us and how the ability to immediately share that with an untold number of people has taken this to a crazy new level. 

It can be great, it can be scary but I always love the possibilities. 

Laurie

LaurieWrites

Photos on Flickr

 

yes please

February 27, 2010 - 10:25am

star studded panel, good thoughts, sounds great.

 

jenB
www.jennui.com

 

Excellent idea!Leslie

February 27, 2010 - 11:06am

Excellent idea!

Leslie

 

Please!

February 27, 2010 - 12:02pm

I'd love to see this panel!

Kimberly

www.petroville.com

www.dcmetromoms.com

 

What an awesome panel

February 27, 2010 - 1:05pm

I'd pay money to see it.

 

Very awesome

February 27, 2010 - 1:32pm

I'm totally there.

 

You have my vote

February 27, 2010 - 1:44pm

I may be considered a "Mommyblogger" because I have kids but the bulk of what I write is about ME. I am so there.

 

Finding Community

February 27, 2010 - 2:00pm

What wisdom these women have to share. I absolutely would love to hear this discussion.

BlogHer Contributing Editor PopConsumer Beyond Help

 

Woo hoo

February 27, 2010 - 4:26pm

This is something I can relate to! Yes, yes.

 

Hell Yes

February 27, 2010 - 6:25pm

This sounds like a discussion full of context and resonance.  Count me in!

 

This is exactly the kind of

February 27, 2010 - 7:44pm

This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to see when I went to BlogHer!

 

i wanna attend!

February 28, 2010 - 8:51am

I would be totally interested in the these lovely ladies speaking. It's all about the personal journey and they know how to tell it.

 

This describes me, and yes, I've had the quandry

February 28, 2010 - 12:22pm

I blog about everything, anything, my life.  It could include kids, but I'm not a mommy blogger (not that there's anything WRONG with that LOL).  It does include health and fitness but not enough to categorize myself like that.  I always tell people it's just about life, my life particularly, and I can see their one eyebrow shoot right up, as if "Why the hell would I come to read about that?" (Which really is the great misconception about blogging in general.  People think it's "At 6:25AM, I brushed my teeth." and stuff like that.)

I tend to ask - did you like Erma Bombeck?  Do you like Dave Barry?  Do you enjoy reading what they write?  Generally, the answer is yes.  I tell them "That is what my blog attempts to do - take a humous look at life.  It happens to be MY life because that's the one I live in.  But hey - if I experience something in my interactions with you that I find amusing, then perhaps I will blog about YOUR life too!"

They usually run away screaming in fear at that point.

I've lost SO many friends that way.

I wonder why??

 

JustLinda

 fabulously imperfect Nothing to See Here... Just Linda

Twitter @JustLindaSTL

 

OH NO!

February 28, 2010 - 1:45pm

Crap!  I didn't see the word "NOT" in the link and I think I accidentally just said I would NOT be interestedin attending this session and that's a LIE!!!  I would LOVE to attend this one!  LOVE LOVE LOVE!  Can I switch my vote?  ACCIDENT!  I'M SORRY!

 

If you see "I would not attend"...

February 28, 2010 - 4:44pm

It means you voted that you would. The link you see gives you the ability to switch your vote back to the "would not" option, which of course we hope you won't. ;) 

Laurie

LaurieWrites

Photos on Flickr

 

THANK YOU!!

March 1, 2010 - 7:18pm

Oh good... thanks!!  I'd been stressing about this!

 

Confused ?

February 28, 2010 - 5:42pm

Hmmm ... this session sounds AWESOME (with three amazing ladies !) but it appears that the only links I can click on above are ones that indicate that I would like to PRESENT (um ... so not qualified !) and one that says I would NOT like to attend. I'm new here at BlogHer so maybe I'm just missing it ... but shouldn't there be link that says "yes, I WOULD attend this session" ?? Because I totally would !

**Okay, I get it now ... I see from the post above mine that I apparently already gave a positive vote. Told y'all that I was new at this !! (And of course I was horrified to think that I had accidentally already clicked on a "would not attend" link ... glad that wasn't the case.)

 

All for it

February 28, 2010 - 6:36pm

This alone is worth the full conference pass!

 

Absolutely!

February 28, 2010 - 6:37pm

I would love to see more like this, honestly. As a person without a big categorizing element I, too, struggle with these issues.
 

Love it!

February 28, 2010 - 7:16pm

I think this is ROHO will appeal to many attendees.  I hope it gets picked up.

I plan on attending.

 

Definitely would attend

March 1, 2010 - 7:53am

I totally think this is a valid session that needs more attention.  I wish I could attend.

 

 

Totally would attend!

March 1, 2010 - 9:46am

I am still unsure if I'll be attending BlogHer this year - but if I do I would totally attend this session!

 

I would totally attend

March 1, 2010 - 12:38pm

My blog is about my life so this would be right up my alley.

 

Sounds awesome!

March 1, 2010 - 2:55pm

I was going to come to Blogher this year, and then I decided probably not, but if this panel goes through it just might make me change my mind and come. Worth coming for!

 

I'd be there!

March 3, 2010 - 11:51am

I'd be there!

 
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