For my fellow bloggers… on this side of the pond

If you are a blogger based somewhere in Europe, chances are you have found yourself wondering why we don’t have all the fun stuff US bloggers have. All the conferences, and the PR contacts, and the shopping events especially for us, and all that jazz. Well, of course it’s because things always move faster in the US, whereas in most of Europe they sometimes seem to move at glacial pace… are we stuck on traditional things? On the old ways? Hmm… maybe. As a continent with a lot of history, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Except when it prevents progress, and expansion, and… fun. I have nothing against doing things the same way as long as it doesn’t become an interminable bore.

Ideally, this post would be telling you that I’m organizing our own edition of BlogHer, BlogHer Europe… ah, a girl can dream, can’t she? But also, we’ve got to start somewhere. So how about having at least a place where all European bloggers can meet, connect, find each other, maybe come up with some fun stuff? Not just Swiss Bloggers, not just UK bloggers, but somewhere bloggers from all European countries can join, chat, connect, network.

So here it is: it’s called This Side of the Pond, and it’s a Ning network. It’s free to join, so how about you go there right now and join your fellow bloggers? Get the ball rolling? Once there’s a bunch of us on, the fun isn’t far behind, I bet