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Girlfriendology 101
Guide to the Online Community for Women based on Female Friendship |
July 22, 2009 |
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Dear Girlfriend,
 Consider this like a surprise call from a girlfriend! We can’t wait until ‘fun, friend-filled Friday’ for this week’s update so SURPRISE Girlfriend!
We’ve got some other girlfriend surprises up our sleeve too. Our new site, aka: Girlfriendology 2.0, is preparing to launch – which means we will have more content, sharing and girlfriends to join us online.
Why Girlfriendology 2.0 and this new online community for women? Good question:
- Girlfriends love to share – Women constantly want to share stories about their friends, request girlfriend answers/ideas/advice (we TRUST our girlfriends!) and tell us they want a safe place to have female-friendly, supportive, fun, interactive connections.
- We love to meet our friends’ friends – Don’t you love connecting with amazing women who support, inspire and share? Well, often these can be found through our other girlfriends and soon we’ll have girlfriend groups who have a place to get together and ‘do life’ together. (Start a group for your book club, girlfriend group, knitters or moms – you can do that in Girlfriendology.com!)
- We learn from each other - We created a safe, friendly, supportive community were we can learn from each other. From recipes to romance, health to home, finances to fitness – we all can learn from each other. And, when we do, we’re all smarter, stronger, supported and empowered. (Kinda cool, isn’t it?!)
Give us a few days for the new site to go public. We just couldn’t keep the secret any longer! And we can’t wait to see how this (free!) community grows and shares. Imagine the power and potential of women sharing and caring for other women. We really do want to make the world a better place – one friendship at a time. This is how we start and we are thrilled you’re one of the girlfriends to help make this happen!
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 Get over 1300 passionate women together …
… and you’ve got BlogHer. BlogHer is a conference for women bloggers that brings together moms, non-moms, pet moms, women who have moms, etc. And, we share our enthusiasm for each other, blogging, social media and time with our girlfriends. (It really is a big girlfriend party!)
If you’re going and you see/meet me, please introduce yourself! I love seeing everyone’s avatars on Twitter but my little brain can’t remember all 13,000 of you so say HI and introduce yourself. I’m excited to meet you and the wonderful women of the blogosphere.
And, speaking of BlogHer:
If you’re going to BlogHer, you gotta go to BowlHer! 500+ of your closest, craziest blogger girlfriends will be bowling in Chicago and various cities on July 25th. (See if we’re bowling in your town!) We’re thrilled to be a BowlHer hostess.
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Girlfriendology BlogTalkRadio guests: CASEY from SLIMPERFECT & CAROLE from MUFFINTOPLESS
  It’s not even Friday but there’s still time for a fun, friend-filled day on BlogTalkRadio/Girlfriendology TODAY at 11am PST/2:00pm EST!
CASEY KURUTZ (at left) created SlimPerfect Swimwear & Activewear (50% off until Aug. 1!!! Use ‘BlogHer’ as promo code!). SlimPerfect was designed to help women with their confidence levels at the pool, beach or at the gym. (Or, as I call it, attractive activewear! See our review here.) CAROLE HICKS (at right) helps women become ‘muffintopless’ through her blog (you guessed it!) Muffintopless. Plus, she’s reaching out to companies and individuals through her business Oh! Social.
Together we three created and ran a “Little Black Dress” contest for BlogHer. On the eve of BlogHer, we’re going to talk with Casey and Carole about their passions, businesses and the need for a good Little Black Dress!
So listen, call or chat – but just join us on this week’s BlogTalkRadio show! TODAY at 11am PST/2pm EST on www.BlogTalkRadio.com/girlfriendology!
Our BlogTalkRadio show next week will return to Friday with career coach and author JULIE BAUKE at 2:00pm EST (11am PST).
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BlogHer Inspired Books & Gifts
- The White Trash Mom Handbook: Embrace Your Inner Trailerpark, Forget Perfection, Resist Assimilation into the PTA, Stay Sane, and Keep Your Sense of Humor – by my girlfriend (who I can’t wait to see at BlogHer), Michelle Lamar. She’s hilarious – check out her fun book!
- Sleep is for the Weak: The best of the Mommy Bloggers. Can you relate?
- The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging – Just in case you want to join us!
- And this amusing t-shirt: Treat me right or I’ll blog about you!
And maybe some girlfriend gifts for good friends who are missing out on the BlogHer swag bag!
 I’ve already created custom BowlHer cards for my wonderful sponsors with Send Out Cards and never left my laptop! You can create your own personalized cards too!
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Stressed (What? You too?!)
Girlfriend – Are you stressed? Ever had so many ‘balls in the air,’ that you were sure it was just a matter of time until they crashed down on your head?!
Well, being in this pre-BlogHer, pre-new-website-launch mode has me feeling a bit stressed. And, from the sound of some tweets, others are sharing in this pre-traumatic stress disorder as well.
As a reminder to me (and hopefully to help you when you’re feeling that) here are a few thoughts to hopefully help:
- Don’t sweat the small stuff. Work or life may be overwhelming, but as long as you have your health and people who love you, you’re not doing too bad, right?
- Temporary. I try to remind myself that a lot of my worries/fears are just BIG right now. A year from now I probably won’t remember them or I’ll have survived them and moved on.
- Those things that keep me awake. Often (again, aside from health and major issues) the more I worry, the less likely fears are to actually happen. Like those goofy panics over little things that seem really big in the middle of the night.
- Female friendship = stress reduction. Sometimes, I know, we have little time for our girlfriends. But at least we know they’re there for us – even when we can’t spend time together. Just knowing they care and love us with our wacky schedules and goofy personalities and fears, that’s enough to reduce stress and help us look forward to great girlfriend times together in the future.
So, girlfriend, know that your friends are there for you. That we care and we wish the best for you. And thanks for being there for us. Life really is better – together with our girlfriends!
THANKS Girlfriend! Have a fun, friend-filled week!!
Debba Haupert, Girlfriendology founder
Follow and join: Twitter/Girlfriendology, Facebook Group, LinkedIn, Flickr Group
p.s. Don’t forget to listen in at 11:00am PST/2:00pm EST TODAY for our BlogTalkRadio show! And next Friday at the same time! |
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Girlfriends share stuff – that’s what we do. Stuff like secrets, surprises and all the stress we’re going through.
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