Sometimes we like to feature a blogger who is not necesarrily known as a "mommyblogger" yet still falls under the criteria to be a mommyblogger: a mom who blogs. This week the Mommybloggers are featuring none other than one of the women we hold personally responsible for getting the three of us together: Lisa Stone, the co-founder of BlogHer.

In addition to blogging at Surfette, Lisa blogs at Legal Blog Watch and helps keep the wheels in constant motion over at BlogHer.org . Before we came to know her through BlogHer, Lisa was executive producer and editor-in-chief for the original Women.com Networks, where she launched an award-winning Web portal that became a top 30 Web site with 25 million unique visitors and 312 million pageviews per month. She has developed Web coverage with Hearst and Rodale magazines, Gallup, Bloomberg, ABC's Good Morning America, E! Television/Online and HBO's Sex and the City. Lisa is the first Internet journalist awarded a Nieman fellowship (2002). But those are her professional attributes. Even if you take all of those things away, you have an amazing and talented woman who is well loved.

We could certainly gush about our adoration of Lisa, but that would not leave room for other people who adore her to give you their input on this very talented, giving and incredible woman.

We had to limit our good friend Jory Des Jardins when it came to her gush-fest for her friend Lisa. (Trust us, this woman does have a book in there!)

"Lisa is my blogging Big Sister. Since we've met she's both embraced me as a colleague and taken me under her wing. It's a strange and exhilarating sensation you get around her of being nurtured and admired at the same time. It's like having your Mom around, but it's not annoying or stressful. She's also like a big sister because she's a born defender. Once she takes a person or a cause under her wing she fights to the death for it. She's also unfailingly thoughtful. She remembers names, beaus, blog posts of yours she read, like, ages ago, and things that you forgot you told her that will make you look at her like she's crazy when she brings them up.

Lisa's like a really good Mojito--when she knocks you on your ass, you really don't feel it until you stand up and think about it. She gives it to me straight, but painlessly. Only later, I think, "Oh, THAT's what she was telling me." She's unbelievably persuasive. I'm almost at the point where I just don't disagree with her, because I know she'll talk me over to her side. But she's not a bullshitter, let's be clear. Lisa takes great pains to communicate truthfully and meaningfully, with a pinch of humor and self-deprecation.

Some Lisa phrases I've come to adopt after tens of thousands of emails.

(After providing lenghty persuasive argument for something) "...that's my two lira."
(When signing off on a phone call) "Bye friend."
(One I just used earlier, when she wants to clarify her position on something) "I mean, let's be clear..."

I have a book in me about Lisa. Right now it's comprised of a few synapses in my brain, but someday, when they connect, Lordy it'll be good."

The amazing Grace Davis jumped right up to let us know how much she adores Lisa with a great idea of how to ensure we all get some Lisa love.

"Oh, to clone Lisa Stone. The planet would run far more effectively and cheerfully if if we had a Lisa Stone Clone for every organization, conference, dinner party and playgroup. Lisa is a combination of the sheer rugged power of a Caterpillar multi-terrain loader and the soft spoken elegance of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. That, in any one's book, is one hell of a hybrid vehicle and a force to be dealt with in the badass blogosphere and beyond."

Fellow partner in crime at BlogHer Elisa Camahort, had no trouble telling us how she and Lisa were a match made in blogger heaven.

"I really didn't know Lisa at all when we sat down to lunch almost a year ago and started dreaming big about a women's blogging conference. But I know now that there is no one else that would have been the partner that Lisa is. And the friend. Very few people combine her talents for getting shit done with the qualities of a visionary too. Rare combo. Rare person. Shout out to our mutual friend Mike for telling us each that we really had to meet the other!"

When Jeneane Sessum volunteered her praise of Lisa, she had no trouble coming up with the perfect word to summarize this amazing woman.

"When I think of Lisa, the first word that comes to mind is “Tireless.” Whether you’re talking about the work of serious journalism, or conference launching and management for a marginalized online group (women), or motherhood, or good friend, or even make-me-laugh-my-butt-off email buddy, Lisa just doesn’t stop. She’s there, she’s smart, and she’ll tell you what she thinks. Honestly. From my virtual friendship with her, I gather that this is because she REALLY CARES about all of these things, and she really cares about making the world a better place for her child, friends, relatives, readers, colleagues, and fellow human beings. GO LISA GO!"

When volunteering a few words about Lisa, Halley Suitt had no problem sharing her admiration for this incomparable woman.

"Who does not ADORE Lisa?! Lisa Stone is so influential in so many arenas --blogging, media, marketing, conference production --and so terrific as a person, I'm wondering ... is she real?

If not, let's make more of her."

Now, considering the number or women and men who admire Lisa Stone, this entry could go on for pages and pages, but if we did, you would miss our fun interview with her. And we know you don't want to miss out on that one. Come back later today and hear from Lisa herself as we put her in the hot seat.