The new BlogHer site is up. It was fantastically conceived by BlogHer founding mama Lisa Stone and truly knocked out of the park in development and design by Laura Scott of PingV.

As I announce earlier this year, I took to heart the advice of some of my more advertising saavy blogsheroes and renamed the site, The Feminist Bloggers Network. Blogher is doing a bang-up job at being the preeminent women bloggers metanetwork on the web. I strongly believe the focus in BlogSheroes should be first and foremost the blogging, political and networking needs of feminists on the web.

What does that mean? BlogSheroes,

(1) Supports women's autonomy.
(2) Are unapologetically pro-choice.

With that in mind, some registrants to this site who attended BlogHer 2005 may feel compelled to de-register due to our political differences. I urge you to follow along the brave threesome of BlogHer and join the conversation over there. That site is hopping.

To those who remain, feel free to post away about your sites, your favorite feminist blogs, the best resources for women on the web you've found or the scariest anti-choice web junk you've ever stumbled upon. We all want it here.

There is an editorial process to the site. The title of your post will appear in the sidebar. Posts will be front paged by the editors, including me.

After a two months of editorial review, members will be invited to become contributors to the site. As a contributor you will then have front page permissions.

As to those who have asked me how to join the advertising network, I will be posting the terms of membership next; but a quick preview, here's what you need to know:

(1) The fastest way to get on our network is by recommendation of another network member. In theory, I act as a curator and reviewer of blogs. Once I get a recommendation or find a blogger that will fit the network, I invite them to become participants.

I'm in a way the vouchsafer to the advertisers for the network members. So that when they ask, "who can we count on", I can say "here's who". So please, if you know anybody on that list, please ask them to refer you.

To rephrase what I tell my kids : There's hundreds of you and only one of me. If I don't get to you it does not mean I don't love you, it means I haven't gotten to you yet.

So help mama here people :)

(2) BlogAds suggests you have a blog that has been published for more than six months and has at least 1000 readers a day; but allowances are made with niche bloggers.

(3) Your blog need not be solely focus on politics or for that matter, be from the US. We welcome bloggers of all subjects and all nations.

(4) That also means that, as of now, we will accept blogs in the following languages beside English : Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Catalan. If you are interested in becoming an international editor in any other languages, please drop us a line on the comments.

As I said on the previous post about the re-launched site, this is an experiment in networking and business building through advertising and other income generating models to come. I don't have all the answers but am more than happy to at least go out and find them.

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments section. That way we all benefit from the conversation.

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