BlogHer ’09 | Table for Five

BlogHer 09- What I Did, Who I Met, Part One

July 31, 2009 By Elizabeth

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

July 28, 2009 By Elizabeth

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.Â Although we had a room with a wireless network and there was free wi-fi in the lobby and other areas of the hotel,Â 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.Â 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.Â 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...]