Vote with your feeds, even if your feet can't be in NYC Sunday night: Blogsheroes

Update 4.25.05 - Wonder what happened? Find out at Ladies First and Blog Sheroes Meetup: The Hungover Edition. Anyone looking for a fresh estrogen injection for their RSS readers and blogrolls should start with the trackbacks to these posts.

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So, we say we want to support women bloggers? Then have I got a good-karma rebate opportunity for you: It's time to vote with our feet feeds: BlogHer.org advisors Liza Sabater and Nichelle Stephens are launching Blogsheroes Sunday night at a barn-burner of a meetup in NYC. You've got four days to show up--via pixels, even if you can't be there in person.

How? Link this art from your blog. Why does a link matter? Because there's power in our prodigious numbers, as Liza so aptly states. If we want to create a global stage for wired women, as BlogHer.org and Blogsheroes are working to do, we have to show up. (And she's made it pretty dang fun to do so with this hi-larious art, I have to say.)

If you want to help build the social network for bloggers--female and male--that we're launching together, this is how to get in on the ground floor. If you want to "take back the byte," as my friend Gano Haines quipped yesterday, be there. And I speak from experience -- I'm finding, as I crowbar hours out of the day I already don't have to work with the BlogHer team, that the power of a message or of a trackback or of any other rendition of a virtual high-five from another blogger cannot be overestimated--thank you, all of you, who have taken the time and effort to email me your opinions, improvements and encouragement. It really makes a difference when I'm choosing between work and sleep!

So I'm voting with my feeds for Blogsheroes. I hope you will too. But don't take my word for it -- take Liza's tart, funny opinions to heart:

"...So we will meet
And, oh yes,
We will rinse and
We will repeat...

Google juice by link jerks be damned
We will rejoice in the abundance of our connections

Clueless pundits with clueless blogrolls be damned
We will promote, plug, pitch and encourage our efforts

We are not the fringes
We are certainly not a minority
And we don't need angry little men to digitally hold our hands

We are word warriors
We are code goddesses
We are digital bridge builders
And we are pioneers in this electronic frontier..." more here

P.S. Here's my gift in return: Liza's funny, funny poll on dailyKos. Upon further reflection, I'm not sure I use enough Latin in my everyday speech...

Thanks.

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[Elayne Riggs]

I've got a short wrap-up and a few pictures from the event on my blog, but at this point people will have to click on my April 2005 archives to see it.