Celebrated on 8 March, International Women’s Day is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. International Women’s Day celebrates the collective power of women past, present and future.

The latest Kenyan Blogs Webring statistics show that out of nearly 400 blogs, approximately 60% of bloggers are men while 40% women make up the rest. To ensure gender equity, we are working to engender a 50/50 balance between men and women bloggers.

With this in mind, today on International Women’s Day, the Kenyan Blogs Webring is launching a campaign to get more women blogging in the next 7 days. To achieve this we need your help. We would like to ask each and every one of our members to get involved!

How?

We would like you to introduce at least one woman to blogging within the next seven days. If you can introduce more than one, great!

Your involvement should be:

• Commitment for seven days
• Explaining the process of blogging
• Directing them and walking them through blog software such as blogger.com and WordPress.com. (We recommend you sign them up on WordPress.com)
• Helping them to set up a blog
• Helping them to write their first blog post (if they need your help)
• Helping them register with KBW (if they so wish and fulfil the membership criteria) so that they can be read widely.

Please note that it will not be enough to send us a list of e-mails with instructions to ’start blogs for these women’. You will certainly need to ‘make the commitment’ and go through the process with the women.

We at the KBW Admin will available for further assistance or advice on technical aspects and signing on to KBW. We are here to help, as you help women start blogs!

See, the process is simple!

If you have questions or require assistance, please contact us.