UPDATED: BlogHer seeks contributing editors

Newsflash: Earlier today Yesterday, BlogHer announced openings for contributing editors to post fantastic, insightful updates on a new BlogHer Web site launching later this month. We've received so many strong applications that half the many openings are considered filled for launch. Check the complete post (below) for remaining opportunities. Thanks.

Opportunity: BlogHer seeks contributing editors to write BlogHer's surfing guide to blogs by women. When we relaunch our site later this month, we're organizing our blogroll into 20+ popular topics. The contributing editors will blog short, fantastic, pithy guides to their favorite posts from  5-10 blogs listed in BlogHer's blogroll for that topic. We ask editors to commit to posting two to three times a week, Monday through Sunday, to help tell the world about the latest breaking news, commentary and buzz by women who write about this subject. Here's an example.

What BlogHer will do for contributing editors: These are volunteer positions. In return, the BlogHer site will work hard to promote all contributing editors and their blogs, including a profile page on the new site that is uniquely branded. We want to give all contributing editors a high profile on this well-trafficked site.

How to apply: Please add your name and the topic you'd like to edit in the comments below, or email me directly with a subject line that reads, "Topic: (Topic name), (Your name)". Please also list your blog(s) and links to any posts you think are particularly relevant to your writing about a topic. I recommend you sign up ASAP if you're interested -- there are so many terrific writers in this network that I'm planning to assign topics on a first-come, first-served basis.

List of topics and contributing editors thus far: Here's the list below, and the names of bloggers on our board and team who have signed up thus far. I realize this list of topics (below) is not a comprehensive taxonomy. We don't want it to be – these categories are designed to aid as a surfing guide to the latest, greatest posts by women who blog. Here's the list:

• Blogging & Social Media
  Blogging about, well, blogging, (mobile, photo, pod/audiocasting, video) and social media.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Business & Career
  Blogging about business and career, including any/every industry and what we're doing to succeed, including advertising, entrepreneurship, management, marketing and PR, and personal decisionmaking (resumes, job searches, salaries, finance, so-called balance, etc.) 
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Entertainment & Arts
  Blogging about entertainment and the fine arts, including books, movies, TV, radio, music, theatre, dance, museums, galleries, etc.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Fashion & Shopping
  Blogging about fashion and shopping, including clothes, beauty, accessories, free stuff, real deals, you name it.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Feminism & Gender
  Blogging about feminism and gender
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Food & Drink
  Blogging about cooking, recipes, techniques, from the successes to failures, from vegan to Bacchanalian.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Health & Wellness
  Blogging about health, wellness, fitness and illness, from conditions and ailments to everyday prevention.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Hobbies
  Blogging about the zillions of things women bloggers are doing with their free time. From knitting to firespinning. 
  Editors: Positions filed for launch
• Law
  Blogging about the law and lawyers. 
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Media & Journalism
  Blogging about media and journalism, both in theory and in practice, from traditional media to citizen journalism.   
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Mommy & Family
  Blogging about every kind of family relationship, starring mommy bloggers--and don't-call-me-mommy bloggers.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Non-Profits & NGOs
  Blogging about non-profits abd non-governmental organizations
  Editors:  Positions filled for launch
• Personal
  Blogging about personal identity, from everyday diaries to exploration and life. 
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Politics & News
  Blogging about politics and current events, from the front page to issues that never make the headlines. 
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Race & Ethnicity
  Blogging about race, ethnicity and culture.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Religion & Spirituality
  Blogging about religion and spirituality.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Research & Academia
  Blogging about research and academia, including the humanities, the sciences and education. 
  Editors: One position open
• Sex & Relationships
  Blogging about sex and relationships, including dating, break-ups, divorce, weddings, romance, friendship and s.e.x.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Technology & Web
  Blogging about technology and the Web, from software and infrastructure, to standards and code.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• Travel & Recreation
  Blogging about travel and recreation.
  Editors: Positions filled for launch
• World
  Blogging from and about the world, including Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. 
  Editors: Positions open by region:
  Africa - Open
  Asia - Filled
  Australia - Open
  Canada - Filled
  Europe - Filled
  Latin America - Filled
  Middle East - Filled

Comments

[sweetney]

Tracey Gaughran-Perez of http://www.sweetney.com for "Mommy & Family", because that's how i roll.

[Nichelle]

Nichelle Stephens
http://nichellenewletter.typepad.com
Entertainment and Arts
Books, Theatre and Fine Arts

Recent review of off-B'way show:
http://nichellenewsletter.typepad.com/newsletter/2005/12/at_the_hop.html

[chantel]

Personal and/or Feminism and Gender

[Anne Zelenka]

Anne Zelenka of Anne 2.0 and The Barely Attentive Mother on Technology & Web. Lisa, I've sent you an email describing my background and listing some articles.

[Sour Duck]

There are several areas I'm initially interested in:

- Blogging and Social Media
- Entertainment & Arts
- Feminism & Gender
- Food & Drink

I don't want to bite off more than I can chew; shall I go off and have a think, or do we discuss via email...?

[Liz]

Hi Lisa,

How exciting! I am interested in the "personal" topic.

My blog: Everyday Goddess

Some relevant (I hope!) posts:
Are you ready for this?

A stitch in time saves nine hundred words.

Maybe now I've conquered all my adolescent fears.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?

Thanks,

Liz Rizzo

[Class V]

Technology & Web

Here's an example:
http://classv.typepad.com/home/2006/01/rip_rss.html

My focus would also be on the investing side of web/technology, since I don't really see a natural category for a venture capitalist. Would be great to be paired up with a hard core technologist.

[Lisa Stone]

Hi everyone - thank you for writing! You should all have an email from me, with one exception: Class V, would you email me so that we can correspond? Thanks.

[Suzanne]

Travel & Recreation, Suzanne Reisman

My blog is cussandotherrants.blogspot.com. It is not dedicated solely to travel, but I go out of town about once a month and write a lot about what I did and the off-the-beaten path places that I visit. It's not typical travel reporting, but I try and amuse.

http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-30th-birthday-day-begins-with.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-30th-birthday-things-get-prickly.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-30th-birthday-damn-those-bulls-have.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2006/01/headed-on-down-to-love-shack.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2005/11/paris-is-burning.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-see-london-i-see-france.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2005/11/just-get-in-car-daryl.html
http://cussandotherrants.blogspot.com/2005/11/back-from-hiatus.html

Thanks for you consideration!
Suzanne

[Sour Duck]

Re: your update. Here's a stereotype-basher: the category of "Fashion & shopping" still has two open slots.

:D ;)

[styro]

For the middle east / Africa section, you might ask Milo Flamingo:
http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com/
although i doubt she'd come all the way from Cairo to go to Blogher. her blog is superfantasgreat, regardless.

[Liz]

LOL, Sour Duck!

I thought it was really interesting what was full and what still had spots. :)

[Karen Rani]

Karen Rani of Troll Baby (http://bigdlittledmistatruffyandme.blogspot.com)

Topics of Interest:

Hobbies! I'm chock full of them! Also, I could write endlessly amazing content on this subject!

[Dori]

Well, drat. I just heard about this today. :-(

If positions ever open up in tech or blogging (or any of the other things I do), please keep me in mind, okay?

[Barbara Serrano]

Hi,
I'd like to blog about conservative (righty) politics and current events. Let me know if something opens up on legal affairs, or technology. Also, have you thought about having something on dating blogs? I think there's a real hunger for that .. or maybe, it's just me.

[Lisa Stone]

Dori, absolutely, will let you know!

Styro, thanks mucho for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

I think I've emailed with everyone on this list except Barbara. B, I'll email you, thanks!

[Nancy White]

This rash of volunteerism is a great community indicator!

Technorati Tags: community_indicator

[Liz Henry]

I would like to contribute for World: Latin America -- or for the Academia category.

[Liz Henry]

I am strangely happy that "shopping" remains untouched. Heh!

[Karen]

I'd like to contribute for World -- I don't know where "Caribbean" would be (Latin America? Even though we Trinis don't consider ourselves Latino?)

My website is Chookooloonks -- it started out as an adoption blog, but since I also write a lot about my homeland of Trinidad & Tobago, it's sort of got a world flavour as well.

http://www.chookooloonks.com/chookooloonks

Thanks for your consideration!

K.

[Lisa Stone]

Hi Liz, Hi Karen, check your email!

[Melissa Gira]

Lisa, I sent you an email last night in a flurry, saying I'd like to do Religion/Spirituality. Just doubly posting here, too.

[Mir]

Hi, Mir here, I'd love to help out with Fashion and Shopping, proudly waving my Notorious Cheapskate banner. The Coupon Mom's got nothing on me, I swear.

Check out the Retail Therapy category on my blog for relevant posts.

Thanks for your consideration!

[GraceD]

Dear Lisa, Elisa and Jory -

I have the PERFECT travel editor for our mighty editorial staff. My friend and volunteer on the Hurricane Katrina relief blogs, Pam of Nerd's Eye View.

http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/

Pam is wintering in her cozy home in Austria where she skis, snowshoes and eats her fill of chocolate. Pam lives in Seattle the rest of the year.

Pam will be checking into this post as soon as she gets off the ski run. She wrote me right before she popped on her ski boots.

[pam]

Yes, I'd love to be your travel editor. Yesiree.

Like Suzanne (above),my blog isn't devoted exclusively to travel, but there is a LOT of it (select the travel category, natch). I do contribute content to travel publications (and some outdoors stuff too). I'm also quite interested in a subcategory of travel (or are we our own) - the expat bloggers. Anyhoo, yes, what Grace said.