Okay, I have to tell you this before you watch this video- I was seriously dehydrated at BlogHer. Even though there was juice and pop to drink everywhere, and I drank as much and as often as I could, I still was badly dehydrated by Saturday. My tongue was dried out and swollen, which I know, ewwww. But I'm telling you that because I think it's the reason why I keep licking my lips in this video interview with Maria Bailey from BSM Media. Why I keep smiling weirdly and blinking my eyes so much, I have no idea. I think this is why TV people have coaches for this sort of thing. Anyway, if you want to watch, here you go: See? LickLickLick BlinkBlinkBlink. Maybe I should make my kids interview me on video once in a while so I can train myself not to look like such a dork. But thank you Maria, I really appreciate the opportunity! See more Mom TV interviews from BlogHer at http://community.momtv.com/. … [Read more...]
BlogHer 09- What I Did, Who I Met, Part One
My previous post was something of a diatribe on the swag situation at BlogHer 09, but a comment left by Grace on the Facebook page for that post reminded me that now I want to focus on the positive and tell you why BlogHer 09 was an incredible experience that I feel fortunate to have had. WHAT I DID AT BLOGHER 09 On the first day I was at BlogHer, Thursday, I: had a great time driving down with Deb and Diana, toured the office of t-shirt company Threadless, said hello to my Mom Central pals at their cocktail reception, made new acquaintances at the GM reception for the Carpoolers, ate an incredible dinner at Phil Stefani's 437 Rush with Child's Play PR/Team Mom, learned that I do NOT like Calamari, and met some of the terrific Team Mom bloggers. was stunned to discover that President Obama was in the very same hotel as the SocialLuxe party, where I met very nice representatives for Swiffer (there's a new Wet Jet coming out and yes that makes me happy), Land's End, … [Read more...]
BlogHer 2009-The Good and the Bad
First, I want to say how bad I feel that I couldn't post anything about the conference while I was there, for those of you who were stopping by. Although we had a room with a wireless network and there was free wi-fi in the lobby and other areas of the hotel, and although I could get my computer to connect to the BlogHer network, I couldn't get any pages to load. Not once. And it was weird because people all around me were online everywhere. My roommate had no problem logging on in our room. Me, nothing. Secondly, I have been trying to write this post for almost 3 hours. I just don't know how to condense my thoughts. The whole idea behind a conference about blogging is for bloggers to meet each other and exchange ideas and information. Or so it would seem. I wanted to sit in on sessions where bloggers I admire talked about how I could make this blog better. I wanted to see the bloggers whose blogs I read and whose tweets I follow and hug them in person. I wanted to … [Read more...]
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