What’s a Women’s Blog Jam?

It is not:

• A sweet fruit condiment favored by blogging women and often spread on toast
• Women slam dunking a basketball while blogging
• Women blogging about covering the Michael Jackson song, “Jam”
• Women rockers who blog about jam sessions

One familiar definition of a jam is a simple social gathering and communal practice session [for music]. “Jams can range from very loose gatherings of amateurs to sophisticated improvised sessions intended to be edited and released to the public.”

A Women’s Blog Jam then is an simple gathering for those who read, write, or want to write blogs. It’s a group session for sharing best practices on the art of writing (and other forms of communication like video, audio, etc.) and publishing your content on a blog. Although open to all, the focus is on the unique voice of women and the education/training/learning niche. We’ll loosely focus on e-learning, technology, professional development, and how people take different approaches to blogging. Some possible conversations…

• You: professional advancement and personal identity
• Customs: blogiquette (the edublogosphere community)
• The craft: finding your blogging voice and niche
• Technical information: readers, widgets, blogrolls, Technorati advertising,…what they’re all about

Come and jam with us!

Where?

• The Innovations in Learning Conference
  
• Open to all conference attendees (men too)
• Featuring Michele Martin, Christine Martell, Cathy Moore, and others (including me)

If you are attending the conference and want to participate in the jam, please contact me at JanetATbrandon-hallDOTcom. Lurkers, as always, are welcome. I’m also working on ways to get virtual attendees involved.

Ideas welcome.

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