Women (and bloggers in general) Right Now

I was doing a quick surf around some other ‘community’ sites and seeing how much was going on in the blogging and tech side of life. There is lot’s. Meetups, and Conferences and Socials..you name it.

Twitter has been awesome in opening my eyes to all the activity too.

Vancouver has a HUGE amount of events too….I am just not able to check most of them out - being the parental shut in that I am!

Which means we THANK people like Miss 604 for being the busy social networker and for writing about it all too!

This Meetup (with Rebecca Live Blogging) is a great example of the sort of things that are CONSTANTLY happening around Vancouver.

Meetup Vancouver has an INSANE list of groups of ALL types in Vancouver.

There is a Vancouver Blogger Group too..that I have joined online, but have yet to attend any of their functions.

I WILL be at the Fraser Valley WordPress Camp...am very excited about that…..

I guess, the point is, that BLOGGING IS HUGE..here and everywhere else.

The mainstream media around Vancouver is slowly starting to notice and recognize this more and more.

Bloggers are a force to be reckoned with here and everywhere.

Marketers and advertisers are slowly ‘getting’ this too….the power of positive online reviews can make or break a product these days.

Jenny down at Seattle Mom’s Blog wrote a great bit about meeting bloggers IRL!

Seattle also has a huge and thriving blog community. Hellooo down there!

When I started blogging, it was because of a local friend who was already a blogging queen…I was impressed.

However, I found myself visiting and linking to bloggers from all over and far away WAY before I really focused on what was going on in my own back yard.

Locally, I feel like a total newb….I am in awe of what is going on around here and the people who are at the centre of it all.

Hopefully, I will meet more local bloggers IRL….I do hope to do another Wet Coast Women meet up…..let me know if people wanna do that…..and I do feel bad that I don’t get out there as much as other people do. For me and many ‘mom’ bloggers…being a mommy comes first and blogging second!

However…I cannot wait to share my adventures down at BlogHer ‘08...I will be heading to San Fran the day after the WordPress Camp….and will be away from my family for the first time ever…for TWO DAYS!!

I can’t wait to meet all those amazing women and sit in on all the great sessions….

In the meantime, try to keep us Wet Coasters up to date on what is going on in YOUR part of the coast…..

We love to hear all about it.

Oh and on a side note…since WCW is a constantly evolving site…..if anyone wants to be a full on (for free) contributing editor with all the glory and fame that title would bestow upon you…AND you have ideas for the site, let me know!

I would love to have people from up and down the coast REGULARLY let us know what’s going on in THEIR blogging world, and I PROMISE to try harder too!

Anyway…go think about it.