Where Are the Women Bloggers?
At the Second Annual BlogHer Conference, San Jose, July 28 and 29, that’s where
Today and Saturday at the Hyatt San Jose, women bloggers from around the world will attend “BlogHer ’06.” Conference sessions will cover blogging basics, good writing techniques, primping your blog, multimedia and political blogging from a female perspective. In addition, Jen Slegg, famed JenSense blogger and guest columnist for us, will be talking turkey about monetization, and Flickr’s Heather Champ will show you how to give your site photographic appeal. Lastly, be sure to look for some of the women of Yahoo! Publisher Network, who will be there to represent.
Attending the conference? Share what you’ve learned, what you liked and what you didn’t by commenting on this post.
Can’t go? Don’t despair. Yahoo!’s own Susan Mernit will attend the conference, and her reports will be posted right here.
—Michael Mattis, Blog Editor
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July 28th, 2006 at 10:02 am
A few more Blogher notes: This is Yahoo!’s second year as a Blogher sponsor and we’re happy to be here.
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake will be participating in “What’s Next,” a “lunch keynote” panel discussion on Day 1 (today!)
Later today (approx. 3:20 in the demo theater) we’ll be demo’ing the new Yahoo! Photos Beta, enriched with ajax-y goodness.
On Saturday afternoon, Londoner Mecca Ibrahim (aka Annie Mole, from the Yahoo! UK Communities team, will participate in a panel on managing reader expectations and dodging blog burnout.
Yahoo! will also be hosting the closing cocktail party on Saturday evening. Join us poolside for a Yahootini!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Skye Kilaen (http://www.lizardkingdom.org/) just gave an insightful presentation on making your site accessible to the disabled (visual, hearing, cognitive, movement, etc). All really easy tweaks, particularly for those using screenreaders that recite content aloud. Such as:
* Text only browser look for links – so don’t use “here,” “this,” “more”… use links that are specific/intuitive (”my Flickr page”)
* When creating links, hyperlink more than one word – makes a better click target
* Back buttons are key to good navigation… don’t open new windows without them
* Make previously-read links change color (helpful for people with short-term memory issues)
* Link treatment – underline them; don’t just change the color or they may be missed by people who are colorblind.
* Color scheme – low contrast is bad for peole with low vision
* Label images – don’t use image filename (ie 100_0478.jpg) b/c screenreaders read that vs. “Beautiful Alaska skyline”
* Spellcheck – screenreaders will mispronounce typos when they read it out loud
Most of this is just good design sense anyway!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Thanks, ya’ll! These are great.
Keep ‘em coming and save me a Yahootini!
- M2, blog guy
July 28th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
I am here, and I can say that I’ve had one (or three!) Yahootinis before, and they are pretty good! Hopefully some of you will check out my workshop later today, since YPN is definitely being mentioned!
And the Yahoo! notebooks in the swag bags are the best swag notebooks I have ever had!
July 28th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Our schwag bags are so good, in fact, they made the cut on ValleySchwag’s Schwag Lab video… http://jumpcut.com/view?id=9CE03382137811DB99034E6A17CD0207
Enjoy!
M2, head blogster
July 31st, 2006 at 9:04 am
Hey, Nickster, your link is broke! Just FYI!
- M2, captain blogster
July 31st, 2006 at 10:33 am
Check out the good things that this (male) blogger has to say about Blogher: http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/07/30/what-i-learned-from-blogher/
Enjoy,
- M2, the blog monkey
August 1st, 2006 at 4:59 am
Keep us update about it,I hope women will expand more to the mission through such confrence session, Men will digg and stick to that mission.