Elisa Camahort Page - How She Turned the BlogHer Network Into a New Media Powerhouse
It's been estimated that Facebook has over 200 million active users.
Myspace added it's 100 millionth profile 3 years ago.
Twitter sees an average of 27 million tweets per day.
It's no small feat, then, that Elisa Camahort Page ranks among the founders of those sites as one of the seven most powerful people in new media, according to an interview given to Forbes magazine by CBS newscaster Katie Couric.
Elisa Camahort Page is the co-founder of the BlogHer network, whose mission is "to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment.
" Along with her co-founders Lisa Stone and Jory de Jardins (who she lists among her biggest influences), she's succeeded in that mission admirably.
BlogHer is now hosts the world's largest conferences for bloggers (male or female), jumping from 300 participants in 2005, its inaugural year to 5 times that amount in 2009.
This most recent conference was sold out months in advance, proving just how influential the fledgling network had become.
In 2006, Elisa Camahort Page helped install an advertising network that allows BlogHer bloggers to profit from their writing.
Because of the strong reputation for excellence fostered by Elisa Camahort Page and her co-founders, the BlogHer network is a powerful online voice, following the original network with BlogHerAct, an initiative created in 2007 where over 11,000 female bloggers combined their energies to effect real political change.
Today, the BlogHer network features over 25,000 blogs in its directory that reach over 16 million unique woman monthly.
What started as a small venture by Elisa Camahort Page and two friends has become a global phenomenon, benefiting not only women but anybody who decides to share their thoughts via the web.
Myspace added it's 100 millionth profile 3 years ago.
Twitter sees an average of 27 million tweets per day.
It's no small feat, then, that Elisa Camahort Page ranks among the founders of those sites as one of the seven most powerful people in new media, according to an interview given to Forbes magazine by CBS newscaster Katie Couric.
Elisa Camahort Page is the co-founder of the BlogHer network, whose mission is "to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment.
" Along with her co-founders Lisa Stone and Jory de Jardins (who she lists among her biggest influences), she's succeeded in that mission admirably.
BlogHer is now hosts the world's largest conferences for bloggers (male or female), jumping from 300 participants in 2005, its inaugural year to 5 times that amount in 2009.
This most recent conference was sold out months in advance, proving just how influential the fledgling network had become.
In 2006, Elisa Camahort Page helped install an advertising network that allows BlogHer bloggers to profit from their writing.
Because of the strong reputation for excellence fostered by Elisa Camahort Page and her co-founders, the BlogHer network is a powerful online voice, following the original network with BlogHerAct, an initiative created in 2007 where over 11,000 female bloggers combined their energies to effect real political change.
Today, the BlogHer network features over 25,000 blogs in its directory that reach over 16 million unique woman monthly.
What started as a small venture by Elisa Camahort Page and two friends has become a global phenomenon, benefiting not only women but anybody who decides to share their thoughts via the web.