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Title:

Why Is Professional Blogging Bloodsport for Women?

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Organizer:
Rebecca Fox, mediabistro.com
Description:
Does blogging about your life necessarily ruin it? For professional female bloggers, writing online often gets painfully personal. This panel explores repercussions for women who offer readers online insights into their lives, whether men who write online are equally maligned, and how to improve the online atmosphere for all.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What makes blogging so brutal for female professionals?
  2. For women who write online professionally, does blogging about your life necessarily ruin it?
  3. What about for men -- do they experience the same fallout when their online writing merges professional with personal?
  4. What's been your policy on bringing personal things into your professional blogging, and what's made that change over time?
  5. What kind of reader response do women, versus men, blogging about their lives engender?
  6. What about in-person appearances -- how do professional blogging's personal ramifications complicate that?
  7. Is age a factor: How do these concerns differ for professional bloggers over 40, versus under 40, and why?
  8. To what extent are those who write about their lives online responsible as role models, and how does that differ between men and women?
  9. What needs to change so women and men who blog professionally can write about their lives online without being maligned for certain choices or decisions?
  10. What advice would you give your sister if she wanted to write about her life online, and how would that differ from the advice you'd give your brother?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
Human / Social Issues
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Louise McCready
on 8/8/08
As a female writer ready to start blogging, it is clear that stakes of blogging are much higher for women than men. This is an issue that should be explored as the newest form of accepted sexism.
Tracie Broom
on 8/8/08
Kudos, Rebecca! It's absolutely true that my best posts have recounted something personal; readers appreciate the sharing of (often embarrassing) details. Otherwise, it's all cream of wheat.

Our generation of ladies grew up within women's lib, which has encouraged us to be as independent, outspoken, and free-loving as we wish -- while the menfolk (sorry for the blanket statement, guys), on an instinctual level, still regard women in a very traditional sense.

The woman who blogs about her personal life may find that some men are turned off by such candor; a startling number of fellas, deep down, feel that a woman should be on the ladylike side: demure and discreet.So Darwinian! (So boring.)

rebecca fox
on 9/8/08
Thanks so much for your feedback, Louise and Tracy. If this panel gets selected, your thoughtful points will certainly be part of th conversation.
Natasha Reilly
on 9/8/08
This is a fantastic topic. As a female blogger, I find women are expected to fit into truly confining catergories as writers AND supposed to adhere to some unwritten, societal code when it comes to sharing personal details. Female bloggers need to break down barriers that are being carried over from other areas of life and write. Sharing personal stories can be cathartic for the writer and entertaining for the reader however I agree with Louise's statement that the stakes are much higher for women. So, this is an issue that needs attention and discussion.
Maria Diaz
on 9/8/08
I've got a similar panel up on the picker (but from the perspective of teen girls who grow up blogging) and I think this is totally a topic that needs to be addressed. The scene is different for women, especially when our personal lives are at stake. Very interested to hear the perspectives of this panel!
Miiko Mentz
on 10/8/08
I agree that some of the most emotionally moving and powerful writing/blogging comes from women who are willing to expose and reveal personal stories about their lives that others can relate to and/or learn from. However, one element that I often think about is how it can affect one's life in the future as we are all developing and adding to our digital identities every time we share online, whether it's a blog posting, comment, video, voting on polls, etc. And as the semantic web develops, I think that what we share and reveal will have an even greater impact both online and offline, which could be both positive and negative.
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on 25/8/08
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Thanks so much for your feedback, Louise and Tracy. If this panel gets selected, your thoughtful points will certainly be part of th conversation.
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