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Women in Science Blogging-a session at the 2008 NC Blogging Conference

By sciencetolife on September 5, 2007.

The 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference (organized by ScienceBlog's very own Bora Zivkovic) is fast approaching.

Suzanne Franks and I will be co-chairing a 1 hour session tentatively called "Exploring Women in Science Blogging".

We are interested to get your feedback and comments on what we are proposing and your suggestions for improving or making it better. Here are some details:

There will be a diverse panel of female science bloggers (we're thinking one graduate student, one professor, and a third in industry or in business for herself) to share their experiences as science bloggers and address specific topics such as:

1. How I got into blogging,
2. How I promoted my blog,
3. Where it is today,
4. What opportunities my blog has opened up for me,
5. Juggling blog with career and family

The final 10-15 minutes will entertain questions from the audience.

We will also provide a video conference of the session and a comprehensive guide of women science bloggers.

So what do you think? Does this sound interesting to you? What would YOU like to see in a session on women science bloggers? Tell us your thoughts! We're particularly interested in finding ways to make this session available to and useful for women science bloggers who blog anonymously and/or who can't attend the conference (thus the video conference).

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I'm happy that you're planning to have a video available, since I can't make it to the conference.

One thing that stands out to me is that many more women blog anonymously than men (or at least that's the way it seems).I'd be interested in discussion of whether science blogging is viewed differently when the blogger is a woman, and why so many feel anonymity is necessary. I'd also be interested whether anonymous bloggers who have gender-neutral handles are treated differently than those who identify themselves as women.

I'm not sure such a discussion can take place without the voices of the anonymous bloggers, who obviously wouldn't want to be videotaped at a conference.

Thank you very much for your comment and suggestions Peggy. We will definitely take them into consideration.