Welcome to BlogHer, the community for women who blog.

Founded in February 2005 as a labor of love by three bloggers, BlogHer's mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. Today BlogHer provides the number-one community for and guide to blogs by women, via annual conferences, a Web network (http://www.blogher.com), and an advertising network of more than 2,200 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates (http://blogherads.com). BlogHer Inc. is owned by three co-founders and has backing from Venrock (http://venrock.com).

We have three major initiatives:

• The BlogHer community hub (http://www.blogher.com) is the Web's number-one guide to blogs by women. Every blogger is invited to list her blog and share her latest words, pictures, video and opinions. As of July, 2008, more than 26,000 members have listed over 15,000 blogs by women, organized by topic. Every day, our 60+ editors write daily guides to the hottest blogging by women in 20+ popular topics, from news and technology, to food, health and family.
• BlogHer's conferences are the world's largest for bloggers, regardless of gender -- and men are indeed invited to attend! In 2008, in addition to the BlogHer Conference '08 (July 18-20) in San Francisco, BlogHer hosted its second Business conference in New York (April 3-4) and will host a six-city Reach Out Tour that will hit Boston, DC, Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta and New orleans in mid-October. Recent keynoters include Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, Marissa Mayer of Google Search, and Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards.
• The BlogHer Advertising Network (http://blogherads.com) is our latest initiative. This network is BlogHer's qualified, targeted environment for contextual advertising showcasing more than 2,200 women who blog across multiple verticals, including parenting, food, business and lifestyle. For more information visit http://blogherads.com.

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