Blogs I follow

A blog that I have followed for a long time is 'How I am Becoming an Astronaut.' It is the blog of Damaris Sarria's work at NASA and her preparation to meet her ultimate goal of being an astronaut. The juxtaposition of both storylines are interesting. Damaris is an engaging writer, who supplements this with cool photos of rockets and shuttles.

Her blog is important to be sure because the reality is that we don't hear often enough about women engineers who blog even though they are out there.

Her latest post documents her attendace at the NASA 50th Anniversary celebration where she gets a photo with the always awesome Gene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon.

Bare-Tweetin'

Almost a week since I've been introduced to the virtues of Twitter and I am addicted. I am 'tweeting' and well, reading and 'tweeting.'

I am now playing with Twitter Search and hashtags (#):
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ftt

More from the BlogHer Reach Out Tour

Well I am in Breakout Session #2, which has to deal with Social Media and Business. Currently we are going through panel introductions. Focus is currently on using Twitter, which admittedly I have not really used a whole lot.
Now we have moved to marketing and blogging, which again has come up as a topic. I am not terribly surprised, but can't help but be surprised to hear that mommy bloggers are growing exponentially.
As I mentioned to my blogger meetup, this isn't just a conference for women, can come too and there are some here. I have not spoken to them yet, but who knows?

BlogHer Reach Out Boston

Well, I am here in Burlington at the first BlogHer Reach Out event in Boston (really Burlington, which is its own town and not really near Boston.). I got here a little late-I have no car and had to depend on public transportation (in this case, #350 Burlington-Alewife station in Cambridge). Not bad generally, but weekend is not good. I am currently in one of the Breakout sessions concerning those who are new to blogging. I am not exactly new, but sometimes it is good to hear what advice is given to newbies, even if you know a little bit more. Things change and that is how you learn about something that you may have missed. There are many live bloggers here who are blogging for BlogHer. These posts will be found at their website. Not mine as an official one though since I had not signed up to do this time. Next time though.... Topics in this session ranged from how to get started, how do you go to the next level from personal hobby to professional posting to monetization (which seems to be the big topic). As a meetup organizer, I get lots of questions about monetization, which is a topic I am weak in admittedly. I was pleased when one of the audience members said simply that in her experience if you just want to get advertisers, "just ask." More later...