We're delighted to announce that Rich Orris has brought his outstanding development skill and design talent to pingVision.

Rich Orris has been involved with Open Source software since 1999, working as lead developer for CivicActions, LLC, web developer, graphic designer and house manager for Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center (The Egg), and technology and information specialist for the Home Care Association of New York State.

And we haven't even officially launched the site yet!

Liza at BlogSheroes says:

The new BlogHer site is up. It was fantastically conceived by BlogHer founding mama Lisa Stone and truly knocked out of the park in development and design by Laura Scott of PingV.

She adds:

Blogher is doing a bang-up job at being the preeminent women bloggers metanetwork on the web.

Her own network, built on Drupal-powered CivicSpace, also promotes women's voices.

Jason at Google's Blogger Buzz takes note:

BlogHer, the fine folks behind the conference of the same name, now have a community site.

(Okay, it's just a mention. But it is Google.)

One of the questions Ponzi asked me during a webcast interview was, "Why is there a need for a separate conference for women bloggers?"

I am not sure of the reasons - I have some hunches - but the preliminary data suggests for whatever reasons, a gap exists.

As a co-moderator for the on-line portion of the Blogher Conference, I met Ponzi on line. She subsequently interviewed me for the Chris Pirillo Show and I got even more tied onto the ongoing conversations around blogging and where world of the internet is going.

I was not familiar with IT Conversations until the Blogher Conference of 2005 when my business partner, and Drupal maven, Laura Scott, sent me some links to it.

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Worldwide annex to July 30th event

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