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 […]
Working on My Empty Nester Site
I spent the last couple of days working on Done Nesting. I purchase reliable and flexible themes that I can customize without doing any alterations of code. I buy themes to be certain they work and will continue to do so. It isn’t that there aren’t good free themes out there. There are. Free themes […]
Defining Myself: Progressive, Pissed-off, Action-prone, Multiple Genre Music Lover, and Late Boomer
There is one thing I love about blogging every single day in these monthly blog challenges like NaBloPoMo, and that is finding new blogs that I can learn from. Dangling participles or not, cross-sectional slices of culture are deserving of a dollop of whipped cream in my book, almost as much serendipitous mind-bending explosions of […]