Resource Blogging - Serving Communities One Post At a Time

As blogging has gained momentum, more individuals and groups are seeing it as an effective, powerful means to communicate information communities need. 

Many BlogHer attendees have started blogs

• to serve their local communities
• assist persons online with whom they share a circumstance or concern
• or fill an information void through the power of the blog

Some of us are established bloggers with separate resource blogs begun after learning of a need through our personal blogs, such as Mothers With Cancer, which grew out of the support needs Susan Niebur and 20 other mothers with cancer identified as they blogged their own battles with cancer on their personal blogs. 

Others of us are mission-based bloggers who joined the blogging world when we had an idea and saw blogging as the ideal communication tool for our communities, such as Tech Savvy Mama, Leticia Barr's website which she started to help parents navigate technologies for their children. 

However all resource bloggers are driven by a desire to teach, build networks, and create support systems in their own areas of interest. Resource blogs are started not necessarily because of a personal need to write and create, but a need to serve.

Resource blogger Jessica McFadden of A Parent in Silver Spring, a local website that has gained national attention for providing information for parents in the Washington DC area, will be facilitating discussions on how individuals can launch their own effective and easy public relations campaigns to reach their communities and the media.

This Room is not about blogs as businesses, or resource blogs that have primarily entrepreneurial and profit-based goals. (Although discussions of ad revenue, personal gratification, or professional opportunities that grow out of resource blogs may be appropriate.) Let's gather to discuss and highlight the biggest, most important rewards of resource blogging: effectively impacting and connecting with our communities.

Passion for our resource topics, and effecting positive change in our communities is what brings us back to the keyboards, day in and day out.  Let's talk about why we do it, how we can do it better, how we can better reach our communities, and brainstorm with and support those BlogHer attendees thinking about beginning their own resource blogs.

If at the end of the session new URLs are born that inform and serve others, oh (wo)man, how awesome would that be?

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