05
October
2005
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17:11 PM
America/Los_Angeles

Introducing Ms. Zigzag, a very new voice in the blogosphere...

I met Ms Zigzag in the early summer when Lucaso was in town and what can I say? She creates a remarkable presence online and offline, and that's a combination of qualities that can make a big difference in the world.


Originally from New York, she is now living in Portland where she had been working as a teacher. She had just started blogging after much proding by Luke (Lucaso).


When I met her, she exhibited the tell-tale signs of a blogger: the passion and the discovery of something that was like nothing she had expected. "I've created a monster," Lucaso said.


Ms ZigZag jumped into blogging with both feet. And keeping things real and authentic was something she instinctively knew was important from the very start.


She's also keen to share what she has learned about how to build a blog audience, so here's an entertaining post with some of her tips.


Genderification of blogging

Some have asked me where are the women bloggers, and why are there so many men bloggers, and other gender blogger related questions.


Well, blogging came out of the male dominated software engineering community. But these days I'm seeing way more new women bloggers than male bloggers.


Anyway, I have little interest in the genderification of the blogosphere and much more interest in the meritocracy of content.


Here is Ms ZigZag:


How are you? Didn't you move recently? How did that go? I saw Lukes new column ....it's great. I'm sure your readers will love it. :)


I'm writing because I wrote an article that I thought might be a fit for SVW. Not sure. I wanted to run it by you, as a new woman blogger. let me kow what you think.


It's about how I have generated 200+ readers a week instantly upon creating my blog. It also gives some valuable tips that I have not read about in all my searches.


My pitch is that most people avoid the average personal blog because the average personal blog avoids most people. It also speaks about tribe.net, which I feel deserves more PR.


I would (of course) love it of you ran it, or if you had any suggestions. Feel free to edit it - I'm open to anything you might want to add or remove. The title should be shorter (I think) but I think it works.

- Zigzag (Dawn)