All great organizations evolve over time, and ours is no different. You’ll be seeing some changes at CWB starting this month.

In just a few short weeks Laura will be moving to Seattle to feed her coffee addiction and pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a ski bunny (maybe she’ll graduate to “blues” in 2010 – fingers crossed). She’ll also be peddling her PR wares on the west coast. She assures us she will think about us everyday, check in regularly, and come back to Cincinnati at least four times a year to harass us. Hopefully she’ll find a group of women bloggers to hang with in the Pacific Northwest. You can still connect with her on Twitter (@LMDeaton) her blog Laura’s Carbon Footprint or on LinkedIn (LMDeaton).

In addition to Laura’s departure from CWB, it is with great sadness that I also announce that after much consideration, Debba will also be leaving the leadership of CWB. Due to time constraints of building her site, Girlfriendology and working with her social media clients, Debba feels it best at this time to pass the leadership reins over to someone who can continue to grow this amazing community of women bloggers.  Debba will still be an active member of CWB and you will be sure to see her at meetings and social gatherings throughout the year! In addition to her blog you can find her on Twitter (@girlfriendology or @DebbaHaupert) and on LinkedIn (DebbaHaupert)

One of my favorite quotes about change comes from Pericles, and I believe it is fitting to this time when Laura & Debba are stepping down from CWB leadership: What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Debba and Laura have been amazing partners in crime and their efforts will be forever woven in to the history and the future efforts of CWB.  They are amazing women and I am blessed to be able to call them my friends.

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Now, with both Debba and Laura stepping down, I asked the two of them to help identify who might “fill their shoes.”  I am pleased to announce that stepping in as my new partners in crime are Katy (Kate-the-Great) Crossen and Susan “Action” Jackson.

For those of you not familiar with these two amazing women, I asked them each to write up a little background on themselves, cause hey, who doesn’t love to write about themselves in 3^rd person???

Katy Crossen – Katy spent her childhood years in Cincinnati and is pleased to have an answer when playing the Tri-State’s favorite game, Where’d you go to school?, despite moving to the East Coast as a teen. By day, Katy serves as a media relations specialist for a major non-profit organization. By night, Katy soaks up the area’s nightlife, culture and dining scenes and shares her insight, discoveries, opinions and other minutia on her blog, Kate’s Random Musings. It is in this space, and in the social media community, that she is better known by the overly inflated moniker, Kate-the-Great. Kate is quite willing to share (and sometimes over share) the nuances of her life on Twitter.

Susan Wenner Jackson – A native Cincinnatian, Susan is a writer, editor and blogger (Working Moms Against Guilt and Family Friendly Cincinnati) who thrives on flexibility in her professional and personal life. In 2009, Susan left the corporate life of “working for the man” to strike out on her own as a freelance copywriter and social media consultant. She is the mother of a preschooler daughter and infant son.

So there you have it folks.  I hope you will all join me in wishing Debba and Laura well in their endeavors and also help me welcome Katy & Susan to CWB leadership.

We’ve had a great beginning and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.

Sincerely,

Shannan Boyer
CWB Co-Founder

Save the date!

Happy New Year everyone!  Cincinnati Women Bloggers is excited to announce the details of our first meeting of 2010. We’re still working on finalizing all the details, but we hope you’ll mark your calendars for Saturday, February 27th and plan on joining us for what is sure to be a great meeting.

What: Using blogs and other social media tools in your job search, Sponsored by MomCorps

Who: Presented by Jennifer McClure (CincyRecruiter on Twitter)

When: Saturday, February 27, 2009 | 10 a.m.

Where: Red Tree Art Gallery and Coffee Shop

This meeting is sponsored by Mom Corps. Mom Corps is a company that provides businesses with direct access to a previously untapped market segment of exceptional talent – professionals who have opted out of the traditional workplace.  You can find them on Twitter at MomCorpsCincy.

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As we prepare to enter 2010, and as Debba, Laura and I begin to plan the 2010 meeting schedule, we’d like to hear from you.

What topics would you like hear about? Would you like a class on on LinkedIn or Google Wave? A class on WordPress or TypePad? Want to learn about Monetization or Ad Networks? Perhaps you’d like us to bring in an expert in HTML or SEO?

This is your organization. Our main goal is to have topics and speakers that will help you with your blogging efforts.

If you’d like to share your thoughts, just click here. You can include your name, or do it anonymously.

A big shout out to Julie (Wine Me Dine Me), Kate (Kate’s Random Musings) and Susan (Working Moms Against Guilt). The trio of local bloggers appeared last Sunday on 55Krc’s City Talk radio program.  During the show the three represented Cincinnati Women Bloggers and spoke about blogging, the local blogging scene and things happening around the city.

You can check out the MP3 from the show on the City Talk site.

We want to thank everyone who came out to Pachinko last night to celebrate the holidays with us and with Cincinnati Imports. In addition to the good fun and conversation that was had, we raised $550 for the Welcome House in Covington! Shannan will be delivering the money to the non-profit later this week.

For more photos from the night, you can check out the Cincinnati Women Bloggers Facebook page.

It’s that time of year again. The time when we gather for a little fun and holiday cheer while raising money for a worthy charity. It’s Happy Holi-daze Happy Hour time, and this year we’re bigger and better through our partnership with the awesome ladies of Cincinnati Imports.

So, here’s the scoop.

This year’s event is on Monday, December 14 starting at 6 p.m. at Pachinko in Covington. We suggest a $10 donation at the door, which will get you a drink ticket and some tasty treats.

All proceeds from the evening will go to the Welcome House of Northern Kentucky. The Welcome House “collaborates with the community to provide a continuum of quality services for individuals and families who are either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to eradicate homelessness, foster stability and promote a just society.” Your donation and attendance on December 14 will help this wonderful organization fund essential services for those in our community who need it most this holiday season.

We can’t wait to see you there! Please RSVP on eventbrite, so we know how much food to make!

Hey Cincinnati Women Bloggers!

If you missed registration for tomorrow night’s CWB/Cincy Social Media event at Empower with Jory Des Jardin from BlogHer, never fear. CWB has 8 tickets available for members.

If you are interested in attending, email CincinnatiWomenBloggers@gmail.com.  The first eight women to respond will receive a ticket.

We wanted to let you all know about a fabulous job opportunity that has come open. The Cincinnati Enquirer is looking for a Digital Content Manager.  The position includes managing the Enquirer’s extremely popular Moms Like Me site.

You can find all the details of the position on CareerBuilder.com.

Good luck!

Cincinnati Women Bloggers has partnered with Cincinnati Social Media for an event Thurs, Oct. 29th: Building Community with BlogHer’s Jory Des Jardins.  A limited number of tickets are available. Registration is open, here: http://bit.ly/44pWuT

We’ve all talked about how much the last presidential race was affected by social media. But, have you spent much time discussing how politics and social media are intersecting in our area? Do you want to?

Join us on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. at the Cincinnati Public Library downtown (room 3A) for the next Cincinnati Women Bloggers meeting. It’s sure to be an interesting event, and we thought it would be timely with election day right around the corner. I’ll be adding additional information about our speakers soon. But, in the meantime, you can RSVP by commenting on this post. Hope to see you there!

Update: Meet Our Speakers

This week’s speakers will be Jane Prendergast of the Cincinnati Enquirer and Kathy Groob, who founded ElectWomen Magazine.

Jane Prendergast

Jane Prendergast has what she thinks is the best job at The Enquirer – covering the city of Cincinnati, its neighborhoods, its people. But right now, she’s mostly busy with its $51 million budget deficit and its politics. She has the distinction of breaking this summer’s Twittergate scandal, in which one councilwoman tweeted during a council meeting that another “does not know when to shut up.” She has worked at The Enquirer 20 years. She contributes to the paper’s politics blog, Politics Extra,  and on twitter @janeprendergast

Kathy Groob is the founder and facilitator of ElectWomen Magazine, a national media magazine site dedicated to providing resources to elect women to public office. ElectWomen Magazine is the first, independent,

Kathy Groob

comprehensive magazine-style website that offers women running for office a place to obtain resources, links to training, workshops, books and advice, statistics and even the ability to blog or e-mail questions. Groob has assembled a distinguished panel of contributors who provide articles and responses to reader questions. Kathy Groob is a 30-year businesswoman and entrepreneur and has served as an elected city official and ran for the Kentucky Senate in 2008. Her Senate campaign inspired hundreds of women to become involved and she created a bi-partisan network of campaign volunteers and supporters. She serves as a political consultant, is a leader in women’s organizations throughout her region and has been a mentor and advocate for women in the workplace throughout her career.