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You're invited! A BlogHer's book launch party in LA on Dec. 1

Oh to be in the Westwood burbs in Los Angeles on Thursday night! I would love to watch BlogHer Gloria Mattioni launch her book, Reckless: The Outrageous Lives of Nine Kick-Ass Women," at this Borders book store at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1.

And Mattioni won't be alone--in honor of the occasion, I hear a few of the women she profiles will be in attendance, including Gevin Fax and twins Angelika Castaneda and Barbara Warren.

Congrats Gloria! When is the rest of your tour?

Does anyone else have a booksigning this month? I'd love to add it to this list. I'd also love to know any/all other books you recommend as gifts this holiday season...only a few more shopping days left. Thanks.

Le BlogHer Meetup?

So Class V asks over on another post if any BlogHers are going to Les Blogs next week in Paris and want to hook up.

Feel free to comment in this post if you want to participate in a Meetup de BlogHer!

BlogHer Audiocast #8: Blogging for Business

Next in the series of BlogHer Conference '05 session discussions published by IT Conversations, our audio partner, is:

BlogHer Audiocast #8: Blogging for Business

The Blogging for Business discussion was moderator-free (due to a last-minute emergency) and audience participation-heavy. The discussion featured 3 Business BlogHers with great stories to tell, Susan Getgood, Sun Microsystem Blog Diva Mary Smaragdis and Stonyfield Yogurt blogger Christine Halvorson.

From the IT Conversations recording description:

The speakers in this panel represent companies from small and non-technical to large and computer-related, from non-profit to for-profit, and they discuss aspects of business blogging from the corporate culture required to make business blogging successful to the various reasons that drive companies to blog successfully and the sorts of tools that can help make a business's blog more successful.

As always: if you want to be automatically notified when IT Conversations uploads each BlogHer '05 session recording, you can subscribe to an RSS feed to the series here.

BlogHers getting press left and right

The NY Times, Fortune Magazine, and now the L.A. Times...BlogHers are popping up all over.

Jarah Euston, one of our stalwart audio engineer volunteers during BlogHer '05, has made the front, yes that's the front, page of the L.A. Times. You see when Jarah's not figuring out how to adequately record a session when most of the talk is coming from the audience, she runs a fantastic citizen journalism site, Fresno Famous. Jarah and her work at Fresno Famous is cited as a sign of hope that Fresno can stop the "brain drain" that sends their brightest young people anywhere but there to build their careers and lives. (I'm not editorializing about Fresno here, by the way, here's a stat cited by Jarah: "Fresno has the nation's highest rate of concentrated poverty and is losing more young, single college graduates than any place other than the rust belt. ")

Jarah has turned participating in and giving back to her community into a full-time endeavor. She's just one of the many BlogHer creating alternate paths to success and satisfaction (and doing it online.)

Carnival of the Feminists (Issue 3): Check it out!

It's a virtual Cirque de Soleil over at Sour Duck's place, where the Thirds Carnival of the Feminists is being held. This time, the issue is split into two sections: “1970s into 2000” and the “Editor’s Feminist Cafeteria.”

Check out the latest from Rox Populi, Elayne Riggs, Philobiblon, Culture Cat, Marian's Blog, MediaGirl.org, Shelley Powers, Beth Kanter, Jeneane Sessums, and plenty of other BlogHers. Give yourself some time. There's lots of good stuff.

Call for Submissions: She's Such a Geek! Anthology

Thanks to Mir, who gave us a head up about the call for submissions for She's Such a Geek!: An Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books,Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution, slated for Fall 2006.

Says Mir:

"This anthology will celebrate women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. We're looking for a wide range of personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and aren't afraid to match wits with men or computers."

Sound interesting? Check out the details, at The Flink and get your 3,000-6,000 word piece in to Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders at sheissuchageek@gmail.com by January 15.

UPDATED: True or false: Do "women warm the podcast bench"?

False is my answer to this question, but I think we have some work to do to raise the profile of women podcasters.

Here's why: I just read Steve Friess' report for Wired News. In "Women Warm the Podcast Bench," Friess reports from the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference that women were missing in action there and, some men suggest, throughout the podcasting space:

BlogHer Profiled on Fortune Business Blog

Does the woman Fortune Magazine's new Business Innovation blog look familiar? It's our very own Yvonne Divita of Lip-Sticking, providing innovative ways of marketing to women. As Yvonne would say, "What's not to like about that?"

An insider's guide to exceptional [citizen?] journalism

Don't miss BlogHer Lisa Williams' new piece on PressThink, "If I Didn't Build it, They Wouldn't Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered (Alive) in Watertown, MA." It's a fantastic insider's guide and syllabus on grassroots journalism. My only beef? As a visitor to Lisa's site, H20town--okay, one of her sites-- I'm not at all sure we need to put the term "citizen" before "journalism," except perhaps to distinguish it from what many daily newspapers have become. Lisa's "five basic newsgathering avenues" are (or should be) the currency of a local reporter's daily life.

IConfession: This is a favorite topic of mine, since I spend many many hours every year evangelizing work and mindsets like Lisa's in mainstream media newsrooms. Do you have a post or article on this topic you'd recommend? Thanks for adding the link below - I'd love to read it and pass it on.

Activist BlogHer Featured in NYT Article

Yep, that's BlogHer's very own Grace Davis mentioned in The New York Times article, Internet Matchmaking:  Those Offering Help and Those Needing it. Read all about the quick, on-the-ground networking effort Grace spearheaded, beating FEMA to the punch.