The Majority of Boomers have more in common with Gen-Xers than Stereotypical Boomers. Why? Because the last half of the Post World War II Baby Boom, temporally speaking, contains more members than the first group. I spent years writing about this. Just search the term Late Boomer and you will find my stuff, because as […]
How To Build A Following, Follow-Up
Followers, Followers, Who Has More Followers Sometimes this whole social media, I have so and so many followers and therefore what I say is valid is a bit hard to take. It is easy to get caught up in quantification, especially in the dominant linear thinking culture left over from the 20th Century. More is […]
Sponsor Awareness at BlogHer 12
This is the Third in a Series of Topical Summaries about BlogHer 12 in New York Blogging about blogging may be a bit less of the navel gazer recursive exercise than it would at first glance seem to be. The publication industry is changing, and that change is strikingly apparent when I look back over […]
Familiar Face Summary of BlogHer 12
While not the be all and end all of BlogHer, the personal connections made at BlogHer, and retained from conference to conference, and grown between conferences provide a positive anchor within the network for me. This point was well illustrated for me yesterday when @flexhourjobs, aka Jacqueline Sloboda, tweeted: “Great to see another familiar face […]
Personal Exec Summary of BlogHer '12
Amazing women of all stripes, that sums up the annual BlogHer conference for me. Annually in July or August since 2005, for two to three days, women who write online or who are thinking about starting a blog gather in a major city to learn, share, discuss topics with each other and woo and be […]
Thoughts on Women, Politics, Dress as I Travel to BlogHer 12
“Time makes more converts than reason” says Thomas Paine early on in Common Sense, which I tried to read this morning while waiting for the train in Minneapolis. I was tired and there were so many distractions that I did not get very far into the work, but I have always wanted to read the […]