Women and Blogging in The Boston Globe
A few people, like our friends Rich and Deborah, have bugged me about blogging this article from The Boston Globe about women and blogging.
Reading the first paragraph mentioning four women made me smile. I know Lisa Williams and Beth Kanter via the blog group. I know of Millie Garfield through that same group. I recognize Tish Grier’s name and wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere, somehow, I’ve run into her, especially since she says she’s been to a Berkman Center for Internet & Society conference and Berkman is where I like to play.
A chunk of the article is about BlogHer, the organization and the conference. The next conference, which, as you might know or have guessed, is about women and blogging, is July 28-29. I, very regretably, can’t and/or shouldn’t go because of how Wikimania is eating my life and because of a very fun conflict on the 29th.
The last half of the article is all about what these women find important about blogging. Many of them emphasize they’ve gotten work, made important connections, and built communities because of their blogs. That’s exactly what I’ve found, too.
"But blogging develops skills and opens opportunities that go beyond getting individual contracts or projects."
Maybe I’ll tack the last half of the article to the wall because of how important I think its points are. So often, we read about the negative side of blogging. This article goes beyond all that.
PS–I still think it’s weird to read about people who blog in online editions of newspapers and not have links or URLs for their stuff.
(It’s taken me 2 hours to get my computer to cooperate about blogging this article. Who knows? By the time you see it, the links might not work anymore.)
July 19th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
You write:
“PS–I still think it’s weird to read about people who blog in online editions of newspapers and not have links or URLs for their stuff.”
The Globe is the problem. They don’t care. They don’t want to devote resouces to putting in links.
It would be easy for htem to instruct their authors to write articles with URL’s in them like Google, http://google.com, but htey don’t even do that.
Since my mom was in that article, I wrote a blog post about it and put in links to all the sites that were mentioned in teh article.
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2006/07/powerful-woman-bloggers.html
After that, I saw that Maura also made a blog post on her own blog with links.
Too bad hte Boston Globe does not get it. They are all about attracting eyeballs and not about sending peole away.
July 20th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Thanks for the links! Aside from lack of link love, I though she understood the power of blogging …