blogher: Blog Sheroes : Meetup and be counted on April 24th in NYC

Blog Sheroes

We blog as writers
As entrepreneurs
As professors
As interns
As mothers
As lawyers
As designers
As slackers
As politicians
As anything we choose
Heck, we even sometimes blog
As sex entertainers

We are not afraid to be visible
We are not afraid to be heard

We are Blog Sheroes and
Words bind us

We write about code
We write about knitting
We write about gossip
We write about our kids
We write about our kittens
We write our desires
We write our lusts
We write our jokes
And with all that writing
We write our beings in every post

We may sign with our names
Or remain incognito

One thing remains certain

We are not afraid to be visible
We are not afraid to be heard

Blog Sheroes

Women making a difference
By sharing with the world

Our talents
Our knowledge
Our wisdom
Our lunacy In these times when
The right to choose
The right to be unique and
The right to freedom are threatened

We Meetup and are not afraid to be counted

So we will meet
To laugh
To cheer
And to get crazy

So we will meet
To forge bonds
And to found partnerships

So we will meet
To introduce our friends
Or to make new ones

So we will meet
Every month of every year

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

With our meetups
We will take it to the brick and mortar world
To spread the word of the strong, wise and fearless women
But we will
As Blog Sheroes
First and foremost
Rejoice in our abundance and say
¡Vulva la net!

BlogSheroes, a culturekitchen and Nichelle Newsletter initiative, is partnering up with BlogHer to bring meetups and social events for women bloggers. It's and opportunity to plug, promote, pitch and bitch our practices and projects; to have a montlhy "analog" place to meet, socialize and network.

Blogging is a fantastic augmented space that allows to expand our personal and social reach without the constraints of physical boundaries. But there is something to be said about meeting our peers; of socializing, p2p. And I cannot say this enough : Get into the act and go local --create your own local BlogSheroes meetup.

The site is still under construction, but keep an eye out for our announcement of BlogSheroes.com. We are using CivicSpace's community platform with lots of features like blogging, forums, community calendars, mass mail handling and events/meetup organizing. If we want to grow our influence, we have to grow our networks. With BlogSheroes.com, we hope to make the process as easy as a blog post.

As to having a BlogSheroes conference meetup or an after conference dinner? I'm open to either/or. Pick your poison and make your case. That's why you're a Blog Shero, right?

The First Blog Sheroes meetup will be in New York City on Sunday, April 24th from 7pm to 10pm at Madam X.

Comments

Right on, Liza, you say it so well: "BlogSheroes, a culturekitchen and Nichelle Newsletter initiative, is partnering up with BlogHer to bring meetups and social events for women bloggers. It's and opportunity to plug, promote, pitch and bitch our practices and projects; to have a monthly "analog" place to meet, socialize and network."

Emphasis on network--a social network. This week, after lengthy conversations with Liza about her and Nichelle's vision, with the team, and after terrific input from Debi Jones, danah boyd and so many of you, we've decided to pull your requests for a public wiki and message boards together into a single social network for bloggers. So stay tuned--we'll be back at you by week's end with an update on our joint solution to meeting, socializing and networking online.

BlogSheroes' Sunday night extravaganza looks like a must for right-coasters lucky enough to make their way to Madame X's joint. Please, when you post about it Monday, trackback here so that we can read about what we left-coasters missed!

Unless I get lucky somehow: I'm off to try to figure out a way to spirit myself to Manhattan for Sunday night...that invisible plane is so hard to find with all these Legos to step over...

Posted by: Lisa Stone aka Surfette | April 20, 2005 at 10:33 AM