Nearly three-quarters (73%) of online women are now active social media users, engaging weekly or more often with popular social media platforms, according to a new study from BlogHer and iVillage.

The Federal Trade Commission has recently taken an interest in regulation of blogs when it comes to bloggers receiving products and writing about them. A lot of discussion has taken place about what it means to blog responsibly.

Posts for pay, reviews for cash or whatever you want to call them are a part of the blogosphere and have been for quite some time. The amount of attention that it gets is often directly related to the amount of other news that is happening in the space at the time.

Women keep their personal lives and business lives very separate when it comes to social media, according to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass Partners. While women consider blogs great sources of information, especially regarding purchases, the vast majority of women use social networks solely for keeping in touch with family and friends.

To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the same evil and sexist pigs you started out with the goal of overcoming.

Our customer BlogHer just launched their new BlogHer Guide to Political Bloggers.  Neat stuff, built on top of Cerado Ventana.  (But i’m biased ).

Check it out. From the BlogHer page:

Bullying is a serious issue. It makes people feel bad, makes them do things that they might not necesarily want to do, and forces people’s hands. Cyberbullying is worse – it takes all those things, puts them online in blogs or journals or social networks, and ramps it up a level via emails, Twitters and text messaging, and instant messages.

Elise Bauer, Simply Recipes and Learning Movable Type

Three things to thing about, with respect to building traffic:

Some random notes and thoughts during Factive’s Social Media Rountable.

The Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association annual Summit starts today.

If you read any of the posts that people wrote from or about the BlogHer conference in the US last week, you’ll probably arrive at the same conclusion I did – a terrific event filled with people who have interesting points to make and thoughts to share.

The aftershocks of BlogHer rumble through the blogosphere…the confidence, the insights, the diversity, (and even the vitriol and invective), 700++ voices from the individuals who were there, as well as the multitudes who followed the conference online.

This past weekend was BlogHer. I only was able to make it down for the Saturday sessions, but overall, I think it was a great event. In a sentence, it was the most valuable blogging-related event I have attended in the past year.

Back from two phenomenal days at BlogHer, and now starting to digest some of the things that I’d noticed over the weekend.

BlogHer ’06 had 700+ attendees on Day 2. Daniel Terdiman writes:

Patrick Scoble, as quoted on Maryam’s blog:

It’s sold out. So is BlogHer. So is BloggerCon. Hmm, something is happening here.

While I do not write often enough about BlogHer – okay, I have never written about them before – I cannot put into words how much I love them.

[Straining] I won’tmake lamegender puns! Iwon’tmake lamegender puns! There are no himbos allowed in this blogher network, unless you’d like a real herstory-making, estronomical dose of herorrhoids. Doh! Himicane, hersterectomy, feminsula! Daggone it!

I see the BlogHer conference dates are announced (July 28 and 29 in San Jose).

I’m quickly reading the Blogher reporting. Nancy White has a TON of notes. You can see the world changing.

There’s quite an event taking place today in California – the BlogHer conference.The brainchild of…