Women Who Blog

I am out here in San Jose California at the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference. The Conference has been great. One of the highlights of the conference for me has been meeting women who blog in the learning profession. At the pre-conference I went to a small gathering of women who blog. We all sat in a circle and introduced ourselves. I was able to actually say that I had been blogging for a total of 2 weeks! I was so proud…. The meeting was fascinating. It reminded me of a small support group. The moderator of the group was Janet Clarey of Brandon Hall Research. She had a number of questions prepared to facilitate the conversation. I have copied her list here because I find the questions to be provocative. You may want to ask yourself these questions. They may help you to define what blogging means to you.

·   Why did you start blogging?

·   Did you think about what you wanted your blog to be about?

·   What were your goals when you started blogging?

·   What are your goals now? changed?

·   How (if at all) has blogging changed you?

·   Do you set any ground rules? (personal information, language, etc.)

·   What platform do you use? hosted free or host yourself?

·   Do you have any technical advice? (SEO, linking, tagging, etc.)

·   How do you connect with your readers and commentors?

·   How much time do you spend blogging?

·   What did you give up to make time for blogging?

·   Do you have to deal with sexism and if so, how do you handle that?

·   Do you think that being a woman impacts how you blog? Do you think there’s a difference between how men and women approach blogging?

·   What keeps you blogging?

·   How do you re-engage after periods of not making time to blog?

·   Do you have women bloggers you particularly admire? Why?

·   Do you have more women subscribed to your blog than men?

·   Do you promote that your blog relates to womens views?

·   How do you decide what to blog about?

Here is a list of women bloggers who participated in facilitating the conference. I hope you find them as interesting as I have found them to be.

Janet Clarey

http://brandon-hall.com/janetclarey/

Michele Martin

http://michelemartin.typepad.com/

Christine Martell

http://www.christinemartell.com/

Kristina Schneider

http://technogenii.wordpress.com/

Emma King

http://www.brandon-hall.com/emmaking/

Cathy Moore

http://blog.cathy-moore.com/?page_id=2