Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
Blogging Like a Boy
Back from today’s Creative Camp and staying with my friend Katherine, who has very kindly let me hijack her cable internet. (Open wifi in Kilkenny: not so much.)
I was a bad, bad camper in that I turned up for lunch, did my two gigs and then turned around and went home to relieve the dog sitter. We travel everywhere with Eimear, but I’m just going to start taking her with me to these things so I can, you know, actually attend them.
Anyway, the panel went really well, and I panelled with brilliant women (Ina, Matha, Elly, Krishna moderating) although I’m a glutton for punishment and I like the hardball questions
I really had a great individual session on How to Blog Like a Boy, with a super responsive audience who laughed a lot and seemed engaged. If you’d like to see the presentation, its on Pix.ie. All of the text is in the first comment for each image, so you just need to click through them sequentially to get the actually content.
It was well attended by both men and women and afterwards, when I had adjoined to the smoking room (the great outdoors) a few of the men attending came up to me to say they were not, in fact, currently blogging like boys but felt suitably kicked up the arse now. That was interesting and oddly gratifying.
And for the record: yes, I speak like I blog and my language is just as salty, if not saltier, in person. Ireland has done bad, bad things for my potty mouth.
09 Mar 2008
| In: Ireland + Social Networks |
Fuck me! Literally. Wow! Not your intent I’m sure but now I really want to quit blogging. I suck.
09.03.2008, 9:01 amI think your mouth was corrupted before it hit Ireland Miss Dent but its super cool to know someone who speaks my language
09.03.2008, 10:30 am@Deb I love your blog. It makes me happy, and hungry, and I would be very upset if you quit. Not everyone has to sound like a corporate tight ass. Relax and be yourself. The internet is a place of release and free thought. Enjoy it babe, and don’t conform to anyone’s ideals. Being “nice” in a cooking blog makes sense. It goes together like peanut butter and jelly. (pun intended)
09.03.2008, 12:48 pmJeebus people! I was just being dramatic! ;-)
09.03.2008, 8:20 pm@Jessica Roy -
As with all advice, free or not, people should feel free to take those parts they find useful and/or relevant to their blogging and leave the rest. This is my take on issues I see regularly and how I view them and the culture of communication from which they come.
While I am regularly called all kinds of interesting things, “corporate tight ass” is a first for me. I may emblazon it on a t-shirt I can wear should I ever elect to attend a meeting in ripped jeans and 16-hole Docs with a safety pin through my nose. Cheers!
Now that was some good writing and some fine reading. It got me thinking about my wee blog and how gender relates to blogging in regards to myself. .Is the presentation available in PDF format as well? I’m going to mention this post and you’re presentation on a message board I frequent where we often talk about gender.
09.03.2008, 11:06 pm@CCC It isn’t, and I’d offer to PDF it up for you, but I don’t have any time – just getting it up there took a few hours that meant less sleep, which is in short supply around here right now.
You are, however, very welcome to grab the screenshots and the text and do a PDF of it if you would like. Please just attribute me in the footer. I’m glad you found it interesting. I find a lot of the data and issues around gender and the interpipes to be really very thought provoking.
This was an excellent presentation Sabrina. Really funny but right on the mark too. I blog like a girl. May not have the faeries but still, I got a lot of recommendations for what i should be doing.
Have a small bit about it in the longest blog post ever…
Nice one!
10.03.2008, 2:44 pmDarragh I am so glad you found it worth your time, and I am sincerely chuffed by your review. Thank you!
That was a great blog post, by the way, and I am very envious of all the sessions you got to attend. We’re going to have to buy lattes in our respective cities and get on the phone one day soon so I can pick your brain about what you learned!
Great slides Sabrina and a beautiful website. At the beginning of the year I realised I had to rebrand my blog because I was rereading my entries and feeling quite irritated by them – girly stuff n’ nonesense as it was. Heck – I know things dammit – and now I’m going to blog about these things with a bit of confidence and authority!
11.03.2008, 7:47 pmWell I hope too anyway… hopefully no one gets mad at me…
I turned the presentation into PDF, turned out okay. Sent them to your gmail addy.
Actually, from the perspective of the presentation my blog could use some work. At least, getting rid of the pink. :-)
12.03.2008, 3:11 pmWell Sabrina, having read the notes from your talk, I’m now raging that I didn’t go. Inspirational stuff indeed.
13.03.2008, 2:47 pmOo, Sabrina, you’ve made me think very hard. And alarmed me. Stop poking me!
Great presentation, you’re doing a good service with that! I linked to it too. I wonder if the ultimate result of blogging like a boy is that you turn into Twenty Major – confident confrontational opinions, interaction, foul language (or was that just you?) and a book deal. :)
16.03.2008, 10:38 am