BlogHer refers to a group blog and online community, and to an annual blogging conference for women. Three of the 2005 conference organizers, Elisa Camahort Page, Jory des Jardins, and Lisa Stone, began a company, Blogher LLC, which in 2006 also began a blog ad network. In 2007, BlogHers Act, a political blogging network by and for women, was started by the company.

BlogHer conference 2005

BlogHer began as a conference in 2005 in San José, California. It began with an idea and a blog, and once announced, quickly grew to a 300-person conference on women and blogging. The BlogHer team in 2005 included Elisa Camahort, Elise Bauer, Jenn Satterwhite, Jory Des Jardins, Lisa Stone, Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams is a claimed psychic and healer who has starred in two shows on Lifetime TV: Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead and Lisa Williams: Voices From the Other Side ....

, Maria Niles, Mir Verburg, and Toby Bloomberg.

BlogHer conference 2006

The second BlogHer conference was held in San José and was much larger than the first, with at least 750 attendees. Keynote speakers included Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website The Huffington Post. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s...

, Catarina Fake, Caroline Little, Chris Nolan, Mena Trott, Grace Davis, Meg Hourihan

Meg Hourihan

Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google. She published weblogs at and...

, and Marnie Webb.

BlogHer Business

In 2007, the community events expanded to a business blogging conference in March in New York City, and a third BlogHer conference in Chicago. BlogHer Business keynote speakers included Elisa Camahort, Jeannette Gibson, Stephanie Bergman, Rachel Clarke, Lisa Weinstein, Lisa Stone, Debi Fine, Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer is Vice President of Location and Local Services at the search engine company Google. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.-Education and career :After...

, Stacy Morrison, and Caroline Little.

BlogHer 2007

BlogHer '07 keynote speakers include Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha is an Indian-American businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare.She has done PhD in Psychology from Brown University. She has done M.A. in Psychology and B.A...

, Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini was CEO of Ning, which she co-founded with Marc Andreessen. Since leaving Ning in March 2010, she has been an executive in residence at the Andreesen Horowitz venture firm....

, Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology. She received a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, and in 1997 published the widely cited book, White Trash: Race and Class in America. From 2004–2005 she was a policy analyst...

, Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Anania Edwards was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S...

, and Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space...

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BlogHer 2008

On July 16, 2008 Blogher announced a partnership with Women@NBCU and iVillage. This landmark agreement provides iVillage access to BlogHer's extensive network of 2200 women's blogs, and promotional opportunities across BlogHer's large and influential audience. As part of the arrangement, iVillage, Oxygen.com and BravoTV.com will feature select BlogHer content. iVillage is an online network that is the leading women's content network with over 16 million unique visitors monthly. The network will be the largest agglomeration of women's media brands online.

Additionally, General Electric/NCBU's capital investment arm, "Peacock Equity", invested $5 million in BlogHer.

BlogHer 2010

Blogher 2010 was held in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 from August 6-7, at the Hilton New York

Hilton New York

The Hilton New York is the largest hotel in New York City and world's 101st tallest hotel.The 44-story building located on the northwest edge of Rockefeller Center at Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street has hosted every President since John F. Kennedy as well as the Beatles during their 1964 visit to the...

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Group blog and online community

In 2006, BlogHer started a group blog featuring over 60 women blogging on a variety of subjects. Its forums expanded to include a large worldwide community of bloggers who are women.

Notable attendees of BlogHer

• Barb Dybwad
• Kim Gandy
  Kim Gandy
  Kim Gandy is an American feminist and was the president of the National Organization for Women from 2001 until 2009. In 2009 Gandy was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government...
  
   - NOW president
• Carol Lin
  Carol Lin
  Carol Lin is an American journalist who founded CarolLinReporting.com, a website which provides cancer patients, their families, and caregivers with answers they may not find on traditional networks...
  
   - CNN
• Gina Trapani
  Gina Trapani
  Gina Marie Trapani is an American tech blogger, web developer, and writer.Trapani founded the Lifehacker blog in January 2005, and led it until January 2009. She co-hosts a netcast on the TWiT.tv network called with Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. She also hosted twelve episodes of Work Smart, a...
  
   - Lifehacker
• Amy Sedaris
  Amy Sedaris
  Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. Sedaris regularly collaborates with her older brother, humorist and author David Sedaris...
  
  - Actress

External links

• BlogHer.org blog network (http://blogher.org/)
• BlogHer conference announcement, 2005.
• BlogHer conference announcement, 2006.
• "Building Companies the Women's Way", New York Times, 6/28/2007.
• Cooper Monroe. BlogHers Act: How 11,000 Women Bloggers are Organizing to Save the World. The Huffington Post.