No longer a simple hobby, blogging has become a career for many. The founders of the "Secret Is in the Sauce" sponsored their first Bloggy Boot Camp with Baltimore as the first stop in a five city tour. The one-day conference is an educational seminar as well as a networking/social event.
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"The topics on the agenda included search-engine optimization, building a "comment tribe" and how to create an effective media kit. There would be much talk of defining your "brand" and driving up page views.
You know. For your blog.
Yes, they had come to Bloggy Boot Camp, the sold-out first stop on a five-city tour. It is the brainchild of Tiffany Romero and Heather Blair, the founders of the Secret Is in the Sauce, a community of 5,000 female bloggers. Boot Camp is at once a networking and social event, bringing together virtual friends for some real-time girly bonding, and an educational seminar designed to help the participants � about 90 percent of them mothers � to take their blogs up a notch, whether in hopes of generating ad revenue and sponsorships, attracting attention to a cause or branching out into paid journalism or marketing.
"You're here because you want to be seen as a professional," Romero told the group."
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