Who’s leading the stakes in the blogosphere? Women or Men?
A recent profile on Women business bloggers only listed about 5 women business bloggers. I was sure there must be more, and I was also curious whether women bloggers are the quiet achievers in the blogosphere…So using a tool which can value blogs I thought it would be fun to look at where women stand compared to a couple (*) of leading male bloggers: Tom Peters and Seth Godin. The results seem pretty clear….
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Blogger |
Blog Value |
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$8,468.10 |
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$29,920.62 |
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$84,116.46 |
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$84,116.46 |
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$98,794.50 |
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$175,571.94 |
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$221,864.22 |
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$337,030.38 |
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$360,741.06 |
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$576,959.88 |
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$657,124.56 |
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$1,454,819.58 |
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$2,889,315.72 |
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Thanks for the mention! There’s a few more women business bloggers that come to my mind.
But I’m not sure it really reads accurately to compare Technorati metrics to Seth Godin or Tom Peters – both whom have a ‘guru’ history before they ever began blogging. (Imagine if Bill Gates or Oprah started blogging tomorrow, they’d have ready-made audiences created by their first post.) It would make more sense to compare with male business bloggers – Johnnie Moore or Hugh MacLeod or Rob May, for instance.
Evelyn makes excellent points. Also, as the low woman on the totem pole here – I’m compelled to note that value – as with products and services – is a matter of perception (both ours and that of our blog visitors). I’m extremely pleased with the results I’ve gotten from my toddler blog – new contacts and opportunities as well as terrific feedback from existing and potential clients. Of course, if my blog was worth a million bucks, I’d likely have a whole different perspective 😉 But, who would buy it? Hmmmm….(Also I tried another one of the valuation tools a while back and it showed my blog as worth over $100K, soooo…)
The flippant side of me says, “how can I use that mythical $84 K to invest in a beach home, or better chocolate. But the side of me that probably devalues myself in terms of $$ due to long inbred habits as a woman is smiling. I have only been blogging for 1.5 years. I haven’t the guru status of some of the high end folks, yet this crazy, imaginary metric still gives us some sense of how we build “value” via blogging.
The value that has accrued to me is the connectedness blogging has allowed me with other people and their thinking which keeps me on my game. I can’t lag: my community keeps me going. That’s valuable!
You mean – I can’t use this as collateral for my new car loan? But seriously folks, in line with Nancy’s comment – it’s the connections that make blogging valuable to me. For example, seeing this entry re my toddler blog’s “value” led me to Dane Carlson, a new contact and even more connections to other ideas and people of which I was unaware. (And wasn’t Dane a smart cookie to do this
“little” thing? He’s got over 7,000 links…)
Thanks ladies. Great to hear all your views. I particularly like how you have made sense of ‘value’, for you, being in the connections and community that you have made.
I might revisit this table of figures in 6 months time and see whose stock values are worth floating…. 🙂
This is lots of fun – I’m flattered to be in such outstanding company. But, I don’t much think it reflects the true value of our blogs. Personally, I get a kick out of it – it’s the competitive side of me. But, I know the reality -that these women are ALL million dollar bloggers and should be recognized for the content they deliver, even above and beyond the connections.
Thanks for the mythical boost in self-esteem, though.
Know More Media, the business blog network for which I write, currently has just one woman blogger (Marta Wells at Work From Home Momma), but two other women are directly involved in the design and management of the whole network. And we’ll certainly hire more women as our network expands. I look forward to hearing the increasingly balanced voice of the blogosophere.