On the Web with Kim Vallee is a social media guide for bloggers. It gives blogging tips, talks about how to use social media, discusses blogging issues, and explores facets of the women blogging community from blog marketing up to monetizing.
On the Web with Kim Vallee is written by the founding editor of the stylish living and entertaining blog At Home with Kim Vallee. Before I started blogging, I worked 15 years in software and Web development. You can say that I am a stylish, girly geek who embraces social media.
The Birth of the Concept
Mixing my Web background with running a women-focus home design blog gives me a unique perspective on what is going on inside the blogging community and within social media. Every time I participate at a Web 2.0 conferences or I go to a meetup, people asked me advices and clues on how to market, grow and improve their blogs.
I felt the need to talk about my perspective on social media for a while. I waited for the right angle. I found it when I got the idea to have a simple conversation about Women and Social Media. Since then, the scope On the Web has evolved to how a blogger or a business can use every aspect of social media to develop their brand.
Involvement in Social Media
I deeply care about the future of social media. To better spread the words, I share easy to follow blogging tips here, on Twitter, on Facebook and at conferences. Plus, I personally help a selected group of women bloggers by mentoring them.
My care for the future of social media led me to launch On the Web with Kim Vallee where I talk about blogging and social media. I also bring something else on the table: the female perspective. I believe that the fact that a majority of women are Web users will help fashion the face of the Web in the coming years. Women do not use technology, including the Web the same way men do.
The World is Changing
People use social media to fit their lifestyle and their goals. Women express new, often unexpected needs. Social media offers a wide range of opportunities for people and businesses.
I follow women bloggers and entrepreneurs in the interior design, creative, food and event planning industries. I am often impressed by how these women find innovative ways to use the Web, to share knowledge and discuss their experiences. They build formal and informal communities to better and faster interact with their peers, their family and their friends. They organize online and offline events to help each other. Based on that, I believe that women will help change the face of the Web.
On a personal note, I am married to a wonderful, sexy geek called Jerome. This means that I am surrounded at home and at the office by the latest technological gadgets.
