96 Women Bloggers to Watch for Spring 2008

I love lists... making them, reading them and finding them. And I love reading great articles that can help in with an area of my life I am interested in improving. Blogging is one of them. I read at least two articles every day about blogging and I check out at least a dozen new bloggers a week. So I have mentioned several great women bloggers I have come across since our last list of women bloggers to watch came out and also want to share five articles I found particularly informative.

I got a lot of information from an article written by Lisa Druxman of Entrepreneur.com. She Says, “Whether you start your own or visit someone else's, blogs can help you build the relationships your business needs.” Hurry over to Lisa’s article, “Real Moms do blog” - it is filled with great tips and motivation about why you should start blogging.

Tali presents How Do Small Blogs Make It Big? - The Story of Search for Blogging posted at The Marketer Review, saying, “How do you grow your small blog? A case study.”

The 3 Reasons People Visit Your Blog at Millionaire Secrets - The article suggests how Content, entertainment and people want to get to know you will get people to visit your blog and keep them coming back for more.

If you like adding photos to your blog read 15 Best Image Search Engines to Find Photos Online an excellent resource for finding great images online.

And finally, here's a very ecclectic group of talented women called "96 Women Bloggers to Watch this Spring" - be sure and check them out!

Back in Skinny Jeans with Stephanie Quilao

Chrysanthemoms with Chrys

Miss 604 with Rebecca Bollitt

Creating with Impact with Robin Matuk

Twenty Set with Monica O’Brien

Reading More, Making Money, Making a Difference! with Sonya Smith

All Business with Denise O'Berry

Moms in Business with Linda Locke

Girl Meets Business with Angela at

Alpha Woman with Freda Mooncotch

Women & Hi-Tech with Joyce

Transformation Revolution with Dr. Leah

New Urban Mom with Sharon McMillan

Woman, Start Your Business Now with Amanda M. Gladden

Work it Mom, Blog with Nataly Kogan

Women 2.0 Canada with Beverly, Monica, Ana and Melany

Business Communicators of Second Life with Linda Zimmer

Eileen’s Technology Blog with Eileen Brown

Rachel Elnaugh

Internet Mumpreneurs with Leigh Hunt

Woman Tribune with Holly Ord

Mom’s United in Business with Jennifer Rogers

Business in General with Sabrina Parsons, Beth Anne Whalen, Kristen Langham, 'Chelle Parmele and a few Guys

Stealth Mode with Francine Hardaway

Add Your Comment Here with Kate

Beautiful Fitness with Alix Florio

Women Leading the Future with Maree Harris

Free Business Tips with Emma Rhoades

Soulpreneur Success with Sandra Reed

Asher Solutions with Ashley E. Underell

HER Media with Karrine (Kay) McFarlane

Smart Women with Smokie Sizemore

Basil and Spice with Kelly Jad'on

Cindy Tangen Marketing and Communications

Sam and Janell of PEP

Dazzlin Donna with Donna Fontenot

Kay Moggie Madness

Brand Bites with Liz Pabon

Gulp Blog with Gabriella Goddard – Gulp Blog

Home Based Working Mom with Lesley Spencer Pyle

Key Lime Creative with Jen Harris

BizChicksRule - http://www.bizchicksrule.com/contest-win-a-50-target-gift-card/ and Lively Women with Kristen King

Doing Business Blog

The Glass Hammer with Nicki Gilmour

The Successful Smiles Blog with Helaine Smith, DMD

Woman Start Your Business Now with Amanda M. Gladden

Brain Based Business with Dr Ellen Weber

Small Business Trends with Anita Campbell

Engage Selling Solutions with Colleen Frances

Painter Girl with Carol Leonesio at

Attract Abundance with Kim Emerson at

Lillian’s Speakout with Lillian Cauldwell

Angelawd with Angela at

Jen Lemen’s Blog

Tip Diva

Moms United in Business with Jennifer Rogers

Confessions of a Shopaholic with Leslie Linevsky

Networking Excellence with Liz Lynch

The Fresh Approach Coach with Melissa Grossman -

The Kiss Business Too with Karin H

1st VA – with Donna Toothaker

Inkthinker Blog by Kristen King at

Cre8pc.com/blog with Kim Krause Berg

ACurvyDiva.com with Gina ChristineTelecommutingDiva.com with Valencia Higuera

The Golden Pencil with Anne Wayman

Shakadoo with Jill

All Diva Media with DJ Nelson

The Unconference with Kaliya Hamlin

Microbusiness News Briefs with Dawn Rivers Baker

Michele Marchetti
Laurie Ayers

Australian Women Online with Deborah Robinson

Healthy Living Lounge with Carole Fogarty

Kristina Haymes

Expertise Marketing with Susanna Lowe

Creating with Impact with Robin Matuk

Plain Jane Mom with Erika Jurney

Mommentary with Elinor Dashwood

Tightly Wound

The Human Imprint with Louise Manning

Mommy Monsters with Heidi Saxton

the simple nickle With Meredith

Go Go Girlfriend with Julia Rosien

Barton Pond Feng Shui With Pat B. Doyle

Design & Technology with Emily Chang

JenSense with Jennifer Slegg

Lifehacker with Gina Trapani

Lorell on Wordpress with Lorelle VanFossen

Take Charge of your Life with Marcia Francois


One last thing, if you haven't submitted your business for listing in the Who's Who Directory of Women in eCommerce yet, you have one more day to do so!

Happy Reading and Happy Spring!

Heidi

How to Turn Your Blog Into a Book - Free teleseminar

Join us Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 2pm Eastern Time (1pm CST, 12 Noon MNT, 11 am PST) for “How to Turn Your Blog Into a Book… and other Business Marketing Ideas” with Kathie M. Thomas.

Kathie Thomas is professional speaker, author, business coach and mentor who frequently speaks at public seminars and workshops throughout Australia about working virtually. She is also a Steering Committee member of the OIVAC and was Master of Ceremonies for the inaugural industry awards presentation at the Convention in 2006.

The founder of A Clayton's Secretary, established March 1994, Kathie Thomas pioneered the Virtual Assistant industry in Australia. The network was formally established in April 1996. Prior to establishing her business she had a background of 23 years' secretarial/administrative experience in the corporate world, working for CEOs and MDs as well as project groups.

Kathie is author of several 'how to' books about the Virtual Assistant Industry and operating a business at home, and with articles published in many business and Christian magazines over several years. Her latest book is titled "Worth More Than Rubies: The Value of a Work At Home Mum". She also authors several blogs.

In 2007 Kathie was inducted into the Baby Boomer Diva’s Web of Fame (http://www.babyboomerdivas.com/) and was recently nominated for Australian of the Year for 2008. You can read more about Kathie at http://www.kathiethomas.com/.

Kathie will share her blogging journey, including why she started blogging, how she uses blogging to promote her other business ventures, how she turned one of her blogs into a book and more!

Two ways to participate:

If you are attending via the teleconference bridge line, here is the information you need:Conference Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3840 - Participant Access Code: 361467#

If you are attending via the web conference room, go here:

http://www.wecai.org/eWednesdayChat.exe. Just type in your name and enter the room (no password needed). If you have not attended the event via our conference room before, you will need to download it and save to your desktop so you can access it tomorrow. If you wish to participate verbally, you will also need an external microphone.

Hope to see you all there!

Heidi

Heidi Richards, Founder & CEO – The WECAI Network™
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Check out the latest issue of WE Magazine for Women!
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21 Posts - The Best of Virtual Woman's Day 2007!

Thought I'd end the year with a recap of our best posts of 2007.

So here goes:

February 28, 2007 (our very first post) Virtual Woman’s Day Hits the Net!

March 12th – Women’s Firsts and WE Magazine for Women

April 6th – Promote Your Expertise on the Women in Business Podcast Directory

May 25th – Nancy Michaels – Establish Yourself as an Expert

June 6th – 17 Tips to Get the Most out of RYZE Social Networking

June 20th – Of Contests, Blogs and the Media

July 17th – Back to School Grants & Scholarships for Women

July 26th – Tagging Women Who Blog

August 1st – Promoting Your New Book, 13 Great Ideas

August 2nd – More Great Book Promotion Ideas

August 8th – Being a Guest on OPP – Other People’s Podcasts to Promote Your Book

August 17th – And the Female Blogger List Grows

September 10th - Blogging for Business Resources and Even More Great Women Bloggers

October 4th – Lucky 13 Women Bloggers Share it all

November 1st – Show Her the Money

November 2nd – Our Woman Bloggers List Grows

November 16th – 111 Woman Bloggers Reads Like a List of Who’s Who

November 29th – 1000 Great Giveaways Could be Yours

December 5th – Join us Online for Growing an Million Dollar Business

December 6th – Link Love, an Epidemic, Not Yet


Thank you for reading Virtual Woman's Day and making it a popular choice for women online.
May 2008 be your best year yet!

Heidi Richards Mooney, Founder & CEO - The WECAI Network™

Be sure to visit our other blogs in the New Year:

Women's Media Summit

AND

WE Magazine for Women

Just How Popular Are You?

I'm talking blogs, of course!

The most popular places in the blogosphere, according to Technorati are those with the most links!

And you thought it was the ones with the most readers! Well, actually, they are the same thing. Because in order to get the "blogferrals" (aka link love), someone's gotta first read your blog and then tell others about it.

Just why would you want "blogferrals?"

Well, if you offer products or services for sale or have affiliate links that generate income, then the more eyeballs that view your blog, the more traffic you generate, the more traffic you generate, the greater your chances of selling something... and so on.

Here are some common blog linking tactics and what they mean:

Trackbacks - one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Wordpress, Movable Type and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of Linkback (source: Wikipedia)

Comments - are replies or feedback that a reader can leave in response to an entry on your blog.

Social book marks - is tagging websites to save for later viewing to send to a friend. It is like taking the bookmarks in your web browser and sending them out to the web. Social book marks are also a great way too look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag.

Tagging - is organizing content organically and without a pre-determined structure.

Blogrolls - a listing of websites that often appear as links on weblogs. This list of links is used to relate the site owner's interest in or affiliation with other bloggers.

Guest Blogging - "When you guest blog, your blog post is a resume you are putting out to the world that publicly states who you are, what you can do, what you know, why you are good at what you do, and why should people come to visit you for more. " (Source: BlogHerald.com). Check out this list of 11 Blogs that Accept Guest Bloggers.

Blog, RSS directories - is an index directory of weblogs as submitted by their authors. Check out the list of 100 Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog publishes by WE Magazine

For more great ideas on increasing your "blogferrals" read the article 101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website.

To see who made the list of the most popular places on the blogosphere check out this article by Fast Company - The Bigs of the Blogs.

Blog on!

Heidi

Link love - an Epidemic - Not Yet!

Today I received another great tip from Dina at Wordfeeder during Day 6 of 24 Days of Blogging Fun and decided to visit another blogger listed on her site. So I visited Bonita Shrader's "Superwoman Does Not Live Here!" Blog and left a comment.

That's what I love about blogging. All the great people I meet and the wonderful conversations going on. And I do my best to post a comment or thought on at least one new blog a day. Why? It's a great way increase your own visibility on the net, and you might just meet some people who will become live-long friends in the process.

So my tip today is to participate in some sort of "blog event" such as a blog carnival and get to know some new bloggers. Leave a comment on at least one new blog when you do. Let's start an epidemic by spreading some link love!

Happy blogging,

Heidi

Women Bloggers add to Day 3 of 24 Days of Blogging

Time to add to my list of great women bloggers. This week I found 13 Very Diverse Women Bloggers to share with you!

They are:

DC Healthy Chocolate With Dr. Daisy http://www.dchealthychocolate.blogspot.com/

News on Women by Alice Kraus, et al http://www.newsonwomen.com/

Family Squad with Maria http://familysquad.blogspot.com/

VSpot with Via at http://vspot.co.uk/

Freedom Blogging with Jan Norman http://jan.freedomblogging.com/

Smooth Sailing Success with Pat Morgan http://smoothsailingsuccess.blogspot.com/

All for Women with Leigh http://www.allforwomen.com.au/

The Tall Poppy with Anne http://thetallpoppy.blogspot.com/

Conscious Destiny with Michelle Van http://consciousdestiny.com/

Dorothea Carney Marketing Tips http://dorotheacarney.com/

Anya Achtenberg - http://anyaachtenberg.com/

design*sponge with Grace Bonney http://www.designspongeonline.com/

Kinetic Ideas with Wendy Maynard - http://wendy.kinesisinc.com/

Be sure to stop by their blogs and if the spirit moves you, leave a trail.... (comment, that is).

Happy blogging!

Heidi

Tagging Women Who Blog!

"I blog for a number of reasons. The primary reason, however, is to create interesting and engaging conversations with the hope that those conversations turn into long-lasting relationships." Duwad Miracle

Today, when I was reading my "Google Alerts" a great idea came into my email. It was called Women Bloggers Doing It For Themselves by CONNECTED INTERNET BLOG.

Roberta is encouraging bloggers to tag 5 female bloggers that they enjoy reading or who are Rockin’ Girl Bloggers. So I am doing the same and tagging 5 of my favorite female bloggers here!

Toby Bloomberg (Bloomberg Marketing)

Yvonne DaVita (Lip-sticking)

Holly Buchanan (Marketing to Women Online)

Mary Hunt (In Women We Trust)

Heidi Casswell (Connect Simply)

Each of these women taught me something important about blogging and friendship. So they deserve to be recognized. Please visit their blogs and say HI! And while you’re at it, subscribe to their blogs.

Oh, and one more thing, if you haven’t yet done so visit BlogHer – the community for women who blog. You can join the community, list your blog and join in the conversations.

Happy blogging… and then some!

Heidi Richards, Founder & Chief Visionary
The WECAI Network™


"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media." Garrett M. Graff

Thanks for all the Publicity for Virtual Woman's Day™

"Heidi, I have to tell you... The Womens Virtual Day™ was SOOOO incredible. It was a great way to meet and chat with other amazing women in business. I enjoyed the day so much. I wasn't planning on staying the whole day but I couldn't help myself because the speakers and virtual showcases were all so great and interesting, I couldn't stop listening. I learned so much and found so many other business women to form partnership with because of just one day. Thank you very much for having such a great event...I just can't say enough wonderful things about that day! It combined fun with business - it was fantastic! I hope that you are planning on having it again next year!!" Teresa Morrow, Morr Services

Thank you Teresa! And to everyone for your great feedback and support of this historic event. It was so much fun to plan and we certainly look forward to working with each of you to make it even bigger and better next year.

Just wanted to say a big thank you to EVERYONE who posted Virtual Woman's Day™ on your blogs, in your newsletters and on your websites. Here are just a few of the publicity "hits" we received:

Ponn Sabra sent out media releases in celebration of Virtual Woman's Day™. Celebrate Virtual Woman's Day with the Re-launch of EmpowerWomenNow.com and International Women Entrepreneurs` Resource Website Launched to Celebrate Virtual Woman’s Day.

Elizabeth Gordon's session was covered by PR WEB in the media release: Virtual Woman's Day Flourishes

Beverly Mahone blogged about it at: http://boomerworld.blogspot.com/2007/03/come-meet-some-divine-divas-on-friday.html.

Doris Chua of Home Office Women blogged about it at: http://homeofficewomen.com/?p=140

Glenda Watson Hyatte blogged about it at: http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/2007/author-celebrates-virtual-womens-day-on-her-virtual-book-tour/

Jennifer inc blogged about it at: http://www.jenniferinc.com/blog/?p=679

Patty Garza blogged about it at: http://littlebytesnews.blogspot.com/2007/03/fyi-virtual-womens-day-is-coming-march.html

Coach Esther Chambers blogged about it at: http://coachchambers.blogspot.com/2007/03/your-pathway-to-peak-performance.html

Edie Galley of By For And About Women Radio mentioned it to her listeners http://www.byforandaboutwomen.com

NAFE mentioned Virtual Woman's Day™ in their recent enewsletter.

Women's Net mentioned Virtual Woman's Day™ in their recent enewsletter: http://www.womensnet.org.za/news.shtml?AA_SL_Session=3ab381764036e82304e23fe52aba094a&x=3932

These are just a few of the mentions we know of. If you remembered to mention Virtual Woman's Day™ to your colleagues, friends or business associates, please let us know and we will post the link here.

And remember the famous words of Rita Rudner - "Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened. "

Thanks so much for remembering Virtual Woman's Day™!

Warmest regards,

Heidi & Suzannah

Virtual Woman's Day™ hits the Net! - March 15, 2007

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Join us on Thursday, March 15th for an all-day celebration of women online. Planned in celebration of Women's History Month, the month of March is an excellent time to celebrate woman online by participating in networking opportunities, join new social networking sites and make new contacts around the globe.

Are you a woman? Do you want to increase your circle of influence, make new connections and promote your products and services to a larger audience of like-minded women? If so, you must join us for this historic event.

During Virtual Woman's Day™, women will have additional opportunities to increase their own circle of influence via the WECAI NETWORK™ day-long celebration using our Web Conference Platform. Women will be able to promote their products and services, show off their websites and learn 'best practices' from women who have found great success online via the conference room as well as via the Virtual Woman's Day™, blog.

The event will be promoted via the WECAI NETWORK™, on hundreds of social networking sites, blogs, forums and websites as well as on the internet via articles and media releases. Events leading up to Virtual Woman's Day™, include a song-writing contest describing the virtues of Women Online. In addition to recognizing winners of the song-writing contest, women will be able to submit a one-paragraph description of their products and services with a link to their website which will be added to the Virtual Woman's Day™ blog.

If you are interested in participating, you can send a message to Heidi (at) wecai.org with "Virtual Woman's Day" in the subject line.

Hope to see you there!

Heidi Richards and Suzannah Richards, Co-founders - the WECAI NETWORK™ and Virtual Woman's Day™