If you’re at work, you might want to bookmark this post to read over the weekend. Because, you know, you surely do not want to miss the chance to see me on video twice. First up, in August I read was a Community Keynote speaker at BlogHer 11 in San Diego. Here’s me reading this [...]
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Happiness Highlights: The #BlogHer11 Edition
I’ve been in San Diego since Wednesday for BlogHer ‘11, a massive blogging conference that I’ve been attending annually since 2009. Like the picture above, it was a blur of happiness, awesome, and sweat. It was both a confidence boost and a payoff for several years of hard work. It was a mixture of culminations [...]
Read More...Too Much Penis At Mom Blog Conferences?
I remember the first time someone suggested to me that BlogHer was sexist. It was, of course, a man who could not possibly fathom why women would need to band together to carve out a space for themselves among bloggers. Why, oh why, in this day and age, would women need to shout to make [...]
Read More...Why I’m Going To BlogWorld Even Though I’m Scared Shitless #BWE10
I plunked down a good chunk of cash yesterday for a plane ticket to Las Vegas and a weekend conference pass to BlogWorld 2010, a ginormous blogging conference attended by about 4,000 people who take this whole Internet thing very seriously. I did this despite the fact that I’m currently on a self-imposed shopping ban. [...]
Read More...Alone in a Crowd.
There are few things more demoralizing than feeling alone in a crowd of 2,400 people. 2,400 people who are supposed to be like minded people. 2,400 people who are SO EXCITED TO SEE… everyone else. 2,400 people who are specifically here to meet new people, make new friends, and hug on strangers. And yet, there [...]
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