A Women's Guide to the Blogosphere: March 2008
by Kylie

Especially since the advent of social networking sites dedicated to giving women unique, high-traffic places to blog on the internet (BlogHer comes to mind here), there are plenty of ways for women to get their voices heard on an increasingly diverse number of political, personal, and increasingly bizarre topics. In that sense, the first step of the female internet revolution is already well underway.

But immediately upon having millions of female bloggers pour their hearts into the blogosphere, we have ushered in the establishment of new standards of quality, best-of-blog rankings, and power-blogs which are viewed by tens of thousands of women every day.

Here are some of our favorite blogs, some of which we find so mind-blowingly interesting that we feel compelled to check them upwards of a half-dozen times in a single day. We chose blogs which met the following criteria:

-Does not resort to gimmicky content in order to drive hits

-Thought-provoking and reflective

-Convey a sense of honesty, and authentic engagement

-Real tips and advice that are difficult to come across elsewhere

-Personable, charismatic writers who bring unique perspective to the issues they blog about


March Blogs


Karen Burns, Working Girl



• Having worked in 59 different settings, Karen knows a thing or two about the working world.

• Best recent article: New Media Resumes

• Most interesting link: Working Girl Interviews a Website DeveloperMore...

PrettySocial


•PrettySocial is a social news site for women. Think of it as a women's magazine updated for the web: distributed, collaborative, and no publishing cycles.


• Great way to fashion microtrends - make sure to search by most recent items to catch the newbies.


• Very easy to use, with only five different news categories. Hopefully, they'll add a more career-focused category in the upcoming future



• Make sure to check out the WomenCo articles featured here!
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Cranky Fitness



• Crabby McSlacker doesn't buy replacing real exercise with 'video game exercise' (i.e. Wii Fitness)



• Best recent article: Don't Look Like an Ass at the Gym



• "Crabby is not an expert in health, but she's full of opinions about it. Do not take her advice then try to sue when Bad Things Happen.";


• Crabby also blogs at Sheesh

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Dopp Juice



• Sarah Dopp likes social media, web development, project management, consulting, writing, editing, creativity, change, mandarin chinese, spoken-word poetry, fresh squeezed juice, and keeping her hair remarkably short.



• Best recent article: Needs, Strategies, and Choice: the authenticity/transparency epilogue



• A long-term contributor to The Writ, a terrific place to workshop, discuss, and share literature and writing

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Discussion Divas



• Run by Delo sisters Stacey and Carrice, DiscussionDivas synthesizes the biggest news happenings into an easy-to-digest weekly newsletter



• Most recent article: He Said, She Said



• Recently began focusing on running content which allows for you to survive any cocktail party.
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See the Original Article on WomenCo.

Women's Guide to the Blogosphere: February 2008