Advertising slogans are supposed to state the main benefits of the brand. Good slogans, make that great slogans, have a distinct personality of their own and are  hard to forget. Scotland used to have such a slogan. It was,"Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World."

We're looking forward to our very merry meet-up, and thrilled we'll be seeing so many new and familiar faces...[img_assist|fid=2506|thumb=0|alt=Cafe Royale|caption= ]but we are starting to reach capacity! Details about the event can be found here, and if you'd like to join us, just let us know to expect you. Happy Holidays!

I couldn't be more excited to be a part of the BlogHer team, and am eagerly looking forward to getting to know all of you better - both online and in person. And what better way (or time of year) to do so than with a Bay Area BlogHer Holiday Bash?

We had so much fun at our BlogHer meet-up in Seattle that we figured why not take the opportunity to have another meet-up outside Silicon Valley? The occasion this time is a meeting of the Downtown Women's Club of Washington DC. I'll be their guest at their December mixer, giving a brief talk about blogging. Don't worry there will be more time spent networking then speechifying!

At this summer's Blogher Conference, I had the opportunity to hear Lauren Gelman, Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society,  and Dean of State of Play Academy present at the blogging communities session called, "So, You Have This Crazy Idea."  She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse,  shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com.

There are many ways in which you can financially support issues, causes and communities you care about beyond the traditional ones we think of such as making a donation to a non-profit organization. Whether it's your corporate or your personal spending, wielding your checkbook wisely can help bring about change. One of the ways in which the BlogHer '06 Conference was able to support a community was through the stuffing of the tote bags given to attendees. In 2005 the bags were stuffed by a handful of volunteers in Elisa's living room. Given that conference attendance nearly tripled in 2006, this option was out of the question if we wanted to maintain our sanity and leave any room in the house for Elisa's kitty, Samantha.

Last week we sent out a post-conference survey to recipients of our BlogHer Conferences Newsletter. Realizing that not every attendee is subscribed to the newsletter I thought I'd also put the call out here: If you attended the conference and would like to get a link to the survey, please email me and provide the name or pseudonym with which you registered for the conference. I'll reply with a direct link to the survey. UPDATED: Should mention that the survey itself is totally anonymous, even though I'm asking for your registration name to send you the link.

One of our '06 Technology partners, ListenShare, conducted a bunch of interviews at BlogHer '06 and has posted them to a variety of places: -Download from the ListenShare site. -Subscribe or download via Odeo. -Subscribe or download from

Here are the first batch of BlogHer breakout session audio recordings. The sessions from Day Two, Session #1 can be found after the jump.

I'm excited to publish the first of many recordings from the BlogHer Conference '06 sessions. Each of BlogHer's sessions were lovingly recorded by

As many of you who attended BlogHer '06 know, a digital locker was provided for accessing speaker bios, session presentations, and sponsor special offers. One of the offers by American Greetings' division for women, Bloom, was not uploaded into the file properly, and the link to their special offer was broken.

[img_assist|fid=1228|thumb=1|alt=BlogHer 06 Audio Team] Behold them in all their glory! The BlogHer '06 Audio Team, led by toy, who was ably assisted by Mr. Feet on the Street Kirk...and a team of volunteer audio-geeks or wanna-be audio geeks.