BlogHer '11 here we come! Shelly and I are getting ready to take off for San Diego to spend 3 days with more than 3,000 bloggers. That's a lot of iPads, laptops and smartphones in one place.
For the past few weeks Twitter has been fast and furious with #BlogHer11 questions, spreadsheets, invites, events, suggestions and prep work for the conference. It's enough to make a first time BlogHer attendee a bit dizzy, but the tweets are offering a lot of great tips.
This will be my 2nd blog conference, but definitely the largest. I'm lucky in the sense that I was able to ease into the blog conference world by attending the amazing, but smaller Type-A Parent Conference earlier this year.
So, with my Type-A experience and Twitter tips, here is my 'BlogHer '11 To Do List':
- Connect with bloggers I want to meet IRL and set up a meeting place and time. If you don't you may never see them, it's just that big.
- Schedule sessions to attend, there are 7 tracks to choose from.
- Sign up for the Geek Bar for more of a one-on-one with experts.
- RSVP to the parties and events, they fill up quickly.
- Get to know the spreadsheet of the sponsors; where they will be, what they are doing/hosting and their Twitter hashtags.
- Work on my elevator pitch.
- Have more than expected business cards on hand.
- Find comfortable shoes...and a few dressy ones as well.
- Get ready to learn a lot and have some fun doing it.
Stay tuned, I'll be filling everyone in on all the excitement and incite from BlogHer '11! I can't wait.