I’ve updated my Other Blogs and Forums page to include women’s blogs.
Some bloggers that attended the Utah Bloggers Conference last night have put up posts about the event:
About 100-150 people attended the first semi-annual Utah Bloggers Conference tonight. Thanks to utahbloggers.com for organizing this.
After about a half hour of gathering a panel discussion was held on blogging in Utah. The discussion was mostly oriented towards business. 4 of the 5 panelists were business bloggers and one was political.
Panelists included:
Following the panel was a Q & A. Since I noticed the glaring disparity in gender on the panel, and in the room (about 4:1 men), and the fact that only men were asking questions, I asked the question of the panelists if the gender balance on the panel was representative of the percentage of women bloggers in Utah. This evoked a series of responses from panelists and audience memberes alike – women and men – with no clear cut answer being offered, but recognition that this is the way things are in Utah. I did learn, as a reult of the responses, of Blogher, a site that lists women bloggers and that there will be a Blogher Conference in San Diego July 28 and 29.
Overall the conference was interesting and very informal and comfortable. The organizers are planning another one in 6 months, details to be announced at a later date.
I met Rob Miller, of The Utah Amicus. It’s so great to meet bloggers in person!
Here are photos of the event:
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Ron of Science and Politics has organized a new blog carnival for those affected by HIV/AIDS:
“I am pleased to announce the initiation of the first International Carnival of Pozitivities, a blog carnival for and by people who are living with HIV/AIDS or their physicians/caregivers. For those not familiar with a blog carnival, it is similar to a roving magazine. People write articles on their own blogs and then submit them to a central location for publication. The host of the carnival changes from month to month and therefore, the location of the “magazine” moves from blog to blog.
The main page for this particular blog carnival is at http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com/ and includes a link for submitting any articles you might wish to submit and a sign-up sheet for hosting as well. Since I am initiating this carnival, I will also host the first edition at my own blog, http://www.ronhudson.blogspot.com/ in July.”
I will be attending the first ever face-to-face Utah bloggers conference tonight, June 13, 6:30 to 9 p.m., at the Larry Miller Center Innovation Center at 9750 S 300 W, in Sandy Utah.
Specifically, the conference will be held in the Conference Center in the Main Building, which is the closest one to 300 West. More specifically, the KGMC Building, rooms 150 C, D, E, & F.
Anyone can attend. You can be a blogger, a reader of blogs or just want to know more about blogging.
The admission is free and there will be food and networking. There will also be a panel of Utah bloggers from 7-7:45. For more information visit www.utahbloggers.com. Thank you to these folks for organizing this!
I was just informed that my blog is a featured blog this week at Treehugger on its “TH Blog Love – Our Favourite Greens Of The Week”.
Here is a little info about Treehugger, taken from their “about us” page:
TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for modern yet green products and services. Consumers also rely on the directory to help facilitate their buying processes. TreeHugger is the most effective way for them to find well designed products that are also ecologically sensitive. TreeHugger is currently written by an international team….
Check out Treehugger‘s very informational green site.
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Thank you to everyone who has answered this call to blog today. This is the first blogswarm I’ve organized. There were a LOT of folks who posted the call for the blogswarm on their blogs. I’ve posted folks here who actually wrote about Divine Strake today.
Today is the day when bloggers from all over will blog about the Divine Strake Test scheduled to be detonated on June 23rd at the Nevada Test Site. I will include a few posts on my blog today. Please check this post for continual updates to the list of bloggers.
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I have been blogging for weeks now about the Divine Strake Test, its effects, why it’s bad, and actions being planned in opposition and in an effort to stop this test.
Today fellow bloggers will unite in opposition to this test by blogging in a “blogswarm” about it.
See my past posts:
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Tagged blogging, blogswarms, divine strake, nuclear issues, Utah
This is a repost:
TOMORROW
Action Alert for ALL Bloggers EVERYWHERE:
I am organizing a STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE blogswarm for Tuesday, May 16th. I hope you all will participate in an effort to stop this test.
See more information at Green Jenni’s blog at:Jen’s Green Journal. Jenni has put together a nice post about the test.
Please register here or at Blogswarm
(Thank you to those that have already registered!)
This is a repost:
Action Alert for ALL Bloggers EVERYWHERE:
I am organizing a STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE blogswarm for Tuesday, May 16th. I hope you all will participate in an effort to stop this test.
See more information at Green Jenni’s blog at:Jen’s Green Journal. Jenni has put together a nice post about the test.
Please register here or at Blogswarm
(Thank you to those that have already registered!)
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 