PALO ALTO, Calif. - (Business Wire) Second graph, first sentence, name of editor-in-chief of
Redbook should read: Stacy Morrison (sted: Stacey Morrison).
The corrected release reads:
BLOGHER PRESENTS SOLD-OUT FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE FROM JULY 18-20 IN SAN FRANCISCO
Industry Leading Event to Feature Technical Labs, Educational Workshops, Premium Sponsors and Keynote Speakers
BlogHer, Inc. (www.blogher.com), the Web’s number-one guide to blogs by women, will host its fourth annual BlogHer Conference from July 18-20 in San Francisco. For the fourth year in a row the BlogHer annual conference has sold out, attracting over 1,000 bloggers from all over the world to participate in thought-provoking discussion sessions, interact with relevant sponsors, engage with speakers from every corner of the Internet and network with bloggers, brands and media executives. The conference is sponsored by premium brand companies, including General Motors, Michelin, Macy's, Johnson & Johnson and Kraft, which are among more than 40 well-known brands looking to engage with the Web’s most influential consumers – women bloggers.
With bloggers commanding an ever-growing presence online both personally and professionally, this year's conference theme is "Reach!" featuring panels with respected women across a multitude of areas of expertise, including Allyson Schwartz, Democratic Congresswoman; Liz Mair, RNC online communications director; Lisa Hsia, senior vice president of New Media for Bravo TV; Lesley N. Pinckney, director of digital development for Essence Communications Inc.; Stacy Morrison, editor-in-chief of Redbook; Mena Trott, co-founder of SixApart; Mitchell Baker, chairman of Mozilla Foundation; and prominent bloggers, including Heather B. Armstrong (Dooce) and Stephanie Klein (Greek Tragedy).
Who: BlogHer (http://www.blogher.com/)
What: BlogHer Conference ’08
When: July 18, 8:30 am - 9:00 pm; July 19, 8:15 am - 9:00 pm; July 20 8:45 am - 6:15 pm
Where: The Westin St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell Street (@ Union Square), San Francisco, CA
Agenda: http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf/5/agenda/2
About BlogHer
Founded in February 2005 by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. BlogHer provides the number-one community and media network of blogs by women via a community hub (http://blogher.com), annual conferences and an advertising network of more than 2,200 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. BlogHer provides the highest quality content on a range of topics, with all blogs continually edited to meet strict editorial standards, including content quality, category relevance and blog frequency. In July 2008, BlogHer entered into a strategic partnership with iVillage, part of Women@NBCU, which includes other NBC Universal brands including Bravo and Oxygen. The partnership also includes an investment by Peacock Equity, a joint venture between NBC Universal and GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications and Entertainment business, and returning investor Venrock.
Racepoint Group
Kristina Joss, 415-694-6709
kjoss@racepointgroup.com
or
BlogHer Inc.
Elisa Camahort, 408-504-5708
elisa@blogher.org
