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This past weekend, the annual women’s conference for blogging called BlogHer was held in the windy city of Chicago, IL. This is a conference where women bloggers from around the globe meet once a year to interact with one another, listen to various keynote speakers, and to learn about new blogging techniques and strategies.

Some of the speakers that attended and lectured at this year’s conference were: A. L. Venable (from DimpleAndaSmirk.com), Alana Reynolds (from LetterB.com), Angela Tseng (from MommyBytes.com), Anne Collier (from NetFamilyNews.org), and many other talented presenters!

If you were unable to make this year’s BlogHer conference, next year’s event has already been organized. I have provided the details below if you are interested:

What: BlogHer ’10
Where: The Hilton Hotel of New York, NY.
Price: Varies. Rates can be found on BlogHer’s EvenBrite Site.

If there are any bloggers here from the PureBlogging community who attended this year’s conference, please feel free to leave any feedback from how it went, how it was presented, and will you go back next year? Also, if there is anyone out there that has never been to a BlogHer conference and is interested for next year, please make yourself known.

Happy Blogging!

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If you have not heard about it recently on Twitter, SquareSpace is a new trend with blogging technology.

Not too long ago, SquareSpace gained publicity by giving an away an iPhone for 30 days. Past this point, the site has continued to draw in bloggers and website creaters alike to this new technology.

SquareSpace is a fully hosted and managed WYSIWYG design environment for creating and developing a website. All of the arranging of the site’s design can be done just by clicks of your mouse–no coding, and no hiring any over-priced web designers. Some examples of some websites from this service can be found here.

What do you think about SquareSpace? If there is anyone out there currently using this as their blog platform, please feel free to leave your feedback.

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While recently watching the show Diggnation, one of the hosts, Kevin Rose, stated that he has been thinking about redirecting his personal blog to his Twitter page.  At this point the other host on the show, Alex, told Kevin he didn’t think the idea was a good one.  Alex further explained that Kevin would loose money from the ads which his personal site contains.  The debate brought up a good debate, should you give up blogging for Tweeting?
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One of the draw backs of using social media as a means of advertising, is updating the page(s) of the social media sites. A lot of the time, you may be to busy with another work related task, or you may just forget. You could depend on your audience to submit your blog posts to sites such as Digg, or Reddit, but that doesn’t mean that it will happen. Another option, you could pay someone to maintain your social media sites for you. This is however looked down upon by many of the social media members. So, how can you for sure your social media page stays up to date? You could allow plugins to do these tasks for you. Most of the more popular blogging software, like WordPress, are designed to allow third party plugins, and most communities have a lot of very useful plugins that are free. Here are some plugins for WordPress that allow you to connect to your blog and your social media pages.
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Coming up with blog content can be hard at times. There maybe some content you think that you can’t use because there isn’t enough “meat” to the content. Here are four tips on how to get more out of little content.

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