Here's a little more detail on the blogging seminar I've organized for PWAC Ottawa. We've recruited a wonderful selection of talented bloggers from the area. They'll be sharing tips on monetizing a blog.
Andrea Tomkins is a freelance writer and photographer who has been blogging since 1999. She is passionate about social media, the arts, healthy living, family travel, good food, and sharing the best of Ottawa for parents and kids. Her blog – a peek inside the fishbowl - is her whiteboard, water cooler, and journal ... all rolled into one.
Andrea has been selling ads on her blog since 2008. While ad sales have generated a new income for her family, her blog has lead to many other interesting opportunities as well.
Shannon McKarney is a transplanted Nova Scotian living in Ottawa who still has ability to dismember a lobster with her bare hands. She worked in high tech for a decade and a half before deciding that diapers, tea parties and writing in her pyjamas were far more glamorous. She’s been blogging since 2000, and while that early blog has mercifully disappeared from the internet, you can still find her writing about parenting and life at zchamu.com, saving the world at ecochick.ca and care2.com, and snarking sports at Draft Day Suit. Shannon has spoken about blogging and social media at the Vancouver Women In Film Festival, at Blissdom Canada, and will be speaking next at the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans in April.
Annie Urban has been blogging at PhD in Parenting since 2008. She is a web analytics geek and has moved through several approaches to ethical monetization on her blog. Ask her about how to find and pitch advertisers that are a good fit with your audience and morals and when to say "thanks, but no thanks" to an offer.
It happens Saturday, March 26, 1-3pm at the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe Street. Visit the PWAC Ottawa for full details.
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