What We Do
The St. Louis Bloggers Guild is more than just a blogroll of the local Who’s Who in blogging. It’s a community organized to inform, promote, protect, and connect area bloggers not just to each other, but to the community at large.
Inform: We want to keep bloggers up-to-date about the latest trends, news, and anything of interest to the blogging community, especially issues that affect their work and rights. The STLGB website is a hub-of-sorts, a medium to disseminate information. We hold monthly Lunch and Learn sessions led by knowledgable speakers within the STLBG. These monthly sessions are held the second Saturday of each month and focus on issues related to social media. They are both informative as well as an opportunity for networking within the St. Louis community.
The STLBG also holds a yearly conference, the St. Louis Interactive Festival. This day long event hosts well known speakers with the social media realm and covers a wide variety of topics from photography to protecting your interllectual property.
Promote: We promote the skills of Guild members via this website and also through each other. We want to attract businesses looking for bloggers and hope to refer our members for possible jobs within social media.
Protect: It’s an odd time for media right now. Newspaper circulations are plummeting, broadcast news is dropping in ratings, media is undergoing a regression and giving greater influence to the citizens and less to the major outlets which have dominated for so long. The internet gives way to an expansion in intellectual property rights. Never in our history have we had such a wealth of information and distribution than right now – but with all of these mediums comes new and easier ways to exploit intellectual property. There are numerous stories of how companies have infringed upon bloggers’ intellectual property. While there are organizations to protect screenwriters, novelists, and journalists, there isn’t an organization solely devoted to protecting the rights and intellectual property of bloggers. We know that strength comes in numbers and we intend to use that to protect out communal rights.
Connect: This website is used to connect bloggers to the issues; our Lunch and Learn sessions, St. Louis Interactive Festival and occasional meetups are used to connect bloggers to each other and to the community.
St. Louis Bloggers Guild Charter
So much is available to you as a member of the St. Louis Bloggers Guild. If you’re a blogger, we hope you’ll join us. If you have special skills that you think are valuable to our community and are interested in participating, please let us know.
