About

About – Welcome to Birds on the Blog
Its origin (for those of you who like to know that sort of thing)
This blog came about through conversation that took place back in the summer of 2008: Women chatting whilst working and not talking about kids, cooking or cosmetics but business.

Sarah Arrow was already a prolific blogger (G+ profile), building a loyal following first as an individual and then successfully raising the profile of her business without ramming sales pitches down her audience’s throat. Yet Barbara Saul pointed out that she was in the minority of non-techie women who’d not only identified but proven the potential of blogging in business terms.

The challenge
To provide a showcase for women in business to entertain, inform and engage visitors. A place where people could read about what interests them, interact with the authors by adding comments and have occasional opportunities to contribute their own posts as guest bloggers.
Sarah also wanted to challenge a whole lot of stereotypes, not just ‘mommy bloggers’ and already had a fairly clear idea of some women she’d immediately want ‘on board’ – so she got busy on Facebook inviting them to join the ‘birds’.

Making it happen
Sarah admired Jane Hatton, she was impressed by Jane’s tenacity and her ability to think of others before herself. Nikki, Suhad, Katherine, Su, Bian, Lynn, Angie, Ida and Elaine joined too and the group shared ideas and thoughts about blogging. She took it for granted that Babs Saul would be involved. Not wanting to be exclusively female, Sarah invited a select band of men to participate, not just by commenting but also contributing occasional blogs. They, in turn suggested other blokes and, meanwhile, the ‘birds’ recommended other prominent, amazing women to join in and that is how they gained Emily, Suze, Bian, Sally, Ann and Linda.

Why birds?
We are taking the word back: No longer is ‘bird’ a patronising way to describe a woman. It describes us women bloggers and tweeters – you see, we are all on twitter – sharing and building relationships, growing our business. The chances are you came to read this blog via another social media platform – such as Twitter or Facebook and we hope you’ll leave having shared some of our content that has made you smile, laugh or inspired you some way.

What’s in the pipeline?
With a truly diverse wealth of experience amongst our stable of resident bloggers, or columnists, alone, at our disposal – over 700 years’ worth at a (very ) conservative estimate – let alone our guest contributors, this blog site is unique. It’s fast developing to provide the easy-read style of a magazine with potential access to the depth and breadth of a reference library!

So the publishing team has its work cut out to catalogue, classify and categorise the growing information for you to find it quickly and easily, such as: By topic and related articles; By author;  By popularity; And so on.

How can you get involved?
We want to retain the diversity and at the same time feature more of what you tell us you like and want more of. So here are some easy ways you can be involved:
Leave your comments on the blogs/ articles you read
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Contact Sarah on sarah@birdsontheblog.co.uk  if you

• Have ideas for areas you’d like to see us feature, we love suggestions

• Are interested in blogging for “Birds on the Blog”

• Or for sponsorship and advertising – The Birds are happy to review products, but cannot promise they will be so enamored they will write a glowing blog, they value honesty and integrity, so if you value this too then let’s talk.

Before you contact me to ask me to promote something, read this post here about win/win/win if you don’t I will just respond to your emails with a link to this page, as what you may need promoting by bloggers needs to benefit their community, and not just you. Email me when you get it.