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Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged Conference
Fellow Bloggers, between getting in some serious fun and relaxation on family vacation and running around like a crazy woman getting ready for this weekend’s MOMcation, I’ve failed to tell you about a very cool event that’s coming up – The Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged Conference! The Conference is coming up quickly – June 10-12 at Ozark Natural Science Center in Northwest Arkansas. This is the first women bloggers conference in Arkansas, but the schedule is packed with sessions from experts in the field, opportunities to connect and network with other bloggers, and some straight-out fun! Registration is open until June 7th, so there’s still time to reserve your spot. At $199 per person, it’s possibly the most value-packed blogger conference in the country! Registration includes sessions, activities, food, and lodging. You … Read entire article »
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The Name Game
This month is my turn to act as “managing editor” over at the Arkansas Women Bloggers site. In the process of organizing and linking to about 100 blogs in the past two days, I’ve noticed that a lot of bloggers have assigned aliases to their family members. Perhaps just for fun, or maybe to protect anonymity, or maybe because everyone else is doing it. For example, my friend “The Park Wife” blogs about her husband, “Big Buckaroo” and her two “Little Buckaroos”. This is actually a witty play off of the family name, which I will not reveal. Kim at What Am I Going to Be When I Grow Up? calls herself Kim, but her husband is “Burly Surfer Dude” (or BSD for short) and her daughters are “Big Ballerina” … Read entire article »
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Blog Green
It seems that everything we do has an impact on the environment, and Blogging is not to be excluded. It makes sense when you think about it: a blogger needs a computer to publish from and a server to publish to, and both of these electronics eat up energy. Consider this, from the website for 1 Blog, 1 Tree: “According to a study by Alexander Wissner-Gross, PhD, physicist at Harvard University and environmental activist, an average … Read entire article »
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