Yahoo! bloggers find lessons for everyone at BlogHer ’06

Yahoo! Personals’ Susan Mernit wraps up her thoughts about the popular women’s blogging conference. Writes Susan:

There are so many great posts about BlogHer that it’s hard to know where to start, but here are a few facts:

• More than seven hundred people from around the world attended.
• Eighty-nine percent of attendees were women.
• The crowd was wonderfully diverse.
• It was a blast!

Some high points for me included:

• A discussion about love and online relationships (after all, I do work at Personals!).
• A session with my friend, Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim and others on blogging and entrepeneurship on the Web.
• The final panel, which showcased how powerful women have used the Web to develop and control their agendas. This session starred Arianna Huffington, Mena Trott, Grace Davis, and Carolyn Little of the Washington Post, and was moderated by Chris Nolan.

Most amazing, everyone there was a blogger, or intended to become one. The sheer energy—and delight—of the audience was memorable. And for photos of the event, check out the blogher06 tag on Flickr.

Meanwhile, Yahoo! Senior Editor Havi Hoffman has this to say about the BlogHer conference:

I’d be lying if I told you that the mood in the blogher-sphere following the second annual BlogHer conference was one of love, consensus, and “kumbaya.” This past week, coverage of the two-day event has run the gamut: complimentary, contentious, provocative, bitchy, grumpy, high-minded, strident, creative, insightful, defensive, forward-looking, apologetic, apoplectic, chaotic, well-reasoned, thoughtful, tolerant, intolerant, inconsistent and impassioned… Read more on the Yahoo! Search Blog…

 

—Michael Mattis, Blog Editor