I just found a Google Doc I created last year that I titled Notes For BlogHer 2011, and despite having gone to five previous conferences, I still find myself scrambling to get myself ready every year.  Every year, starting the weekend before, I start amping up the anxiety and stress and moments of panic. OMG MY BUSINESS CARDS SUCK and SHOULD I BRING MY LAPTOP? and WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I WEAR? and so on and so forth. So here are the five items I put in my Notes For BlogHer 2011, exactly as I wrote them, in bold, with comments in italics. Please to enjoy. You MUST have a way to access email and twitter. Do NOT take your laptop. You will not use it.  I've been going back and forth on the laptop issue. Without it, I have no way to dump my camera card if it fills up. My Xoom Tablet does take pretty good photos, even if I'll feel ridiculous holding up a ten-inch slab and yelling "say cheese" at groups of people. However, since the Tablet was shipped before the SD CARD SLOT WAS … [Read more...]