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Women rule the blogosphere!

Women are not only taking the blogging world by storm, but according to a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald, women are now in power in the world of blogs!

The objective of this article is Mia Freeman, former editor of Cosmopolitan and his blog Mumamia success. Mumamia has more than 300,000 monthly visits and Mia wrote about fashion, celebrity, relationships and current affairs. She said that the "mommy-blog" phenomenon in particular is booming in Australia, after the head of the mummy American blog pioneer, dooce.com, which attracts over 4 million visits per month – more than any magazine in the world.

Why are modern mums turning to blogs, such as mothers in the past taken tennis lessons and frilly panties? "Because we have lost that sense of community with our neighbors and with our extended families, people find it online. It can be very isolating being a housewife or a working mother part time or only a mother being in place at three o'clock in the morning with a baby who does not sleep, "said Mia.

But this is not Only mothers who are blogging so liberating, many women now use their blogs as a basis for connecting with other like-minded women and as a valuable tool for attracting customers to their websites, grow their businesses and raising their profiles.

statistics on women bloggers interesting: (This research is BlogHer and Compass Partners)

• 35% of women 18-75 to participate in the blogosphere weekly.

• Among women in line 53% read blogs, 37% post comments to blogs and 28% write or post updated blogs.

• Among women bloggers 58 entries% after at least once a week, and those who actively read blogs, 80% do so at least once a week.

Why Women Blog? (Except for business reasons)

• 65% do it for fun

• 60% of expression

• 46% for information

• 41% to keep to date on the family and friends

• 40% to connect with other

• 34% as a newspaper

• 28% participate in the blogosphere to connect with others.

My goal is to promote the scope and variety of women's writing and to get women to write. A blog is a simple first step in this direction. It is a wonderful tool, because it is unfiltered contact with your audience and your audience will grow slowly (or sometimes rapidly) over time. For a writer inexperienced blogging is a medium that can build your confidence in the process.

In talking to women through my work as a journalist, many women love writing and have a goal to write more. Fear is the main reason that keeps us well. This fear is not good enough to be a writer, a fear no one will read our work and the fear of being embarrassed. If you create a blog and readers are not knocking on your door first, nobody else will know if it does not really matter. I have a friend who has a blog on his garden. She started the blog because of his passion for gardening and each week, it is a bit perplexed by his growing readership. You will be surprised how many people will also share your passion and be interested in what you have to say.

The reality is that we all fear our writings are not good enough and if we allow us to always submit to it, then we would never have the privilege to read so many great women's literature. Look at the wonderful talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love this site and you will see, even the most successful writers are still struggling with this notion.

Just think where we would today without the jane austen novel to get through the lonely nights, or the passion of Emily Bronte to remind us that there is an outside Healthcliffe there for us all?

Now seriously, in the aftermath of World War 2 our fabulous women writers began to create a real change. Back in 1949, French author Simone de Beauvoir, the pens – The Second Sex, the first real exploration in inequality gender. How frustrated housewives would not release unhappy marriages and terrible sex life if they had not read Germain Greer – The Unick rights, the second wave of feminism (70's). And the next wave ('s 90), Naomi Wolf as she set the industry beauty and destructive judgments about women with his book, The myth of beauty.

If you want to create change in this world and help others, then writing is undeniably a powerful phenomenon. For some truly inspirational women on the power of blogs have a look at the NXE target = "_blank"> Fifty most influential "bloggers and target = "_blank"> Top 100 Female Bloggers per blog Ensha.

I think one of the best things you can do for you personally and professionally Last is to write up and writing a blog is a great first step. Who knows where that may lead!

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About the Author

Kylie Welsh is an author and freelance writer for modern women. She has a popular local blog called Brisbane Woman with hundreds of ladies tuning in each week for a read. Kylie had her first book published in 2005 and her next book is due for publication in 2009. She currently freelances for The Courier Mail newspaper, Brisbane Magazine and QCG Magazine. www.brisbanewoman.com

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