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Women Bloggers - Making Their Power Felt on the Internet

More Women are Writing, Reading, and Having Their Say Online

From Linda Lowen, About.com

Women bloggers came of age in 2008 with revenue-generating mommy blogs, corporate advertisers at the BlogHer conference, and the rise of citizen journalists.
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The power of word-of-mom recommendations and the influence of bloggers like Heather Armstrong and Dooce has made advertisers sit up and take notice. This year's BlogHer conference - the web's most popular community for women bloggers - attracted mainstream-brand advertisers seeking to reach the nearly 3,000 attendees. Their large numbers, coupled with the rise of ordinary citizen journalists like Mayhill Fowler, prove that women bloggers are a growing force to be reckoned with.
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