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A few months ago, I watched with interest as friends began tweeting about the Altitude Design Summit, the inaugural conference geared toward design bloggers, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 21 - 23. As someone who follows design bloggers -- both digital design and interior design -- with a considerable amount of fanaticism, I really, really wanted to go. But as someone who isn't a design blogger at all -- I just like to take lots of pictures -- I thought perhaps this conference wouldn't be for me.
Boy, was I wrong.
A couple of weeks ago, Gabrielle Blair of DesignMom, who is one of the organizers of the conference, invited me to come speak on a panel. At first I thought she had the wrong email address, but I wasn't about to giver her time to figure that out. So I happily accepted. Then I really started combing the site for information about who else would be speaking.
And now, at the time of this writing, it's the night before I fly to Salt Lake City, and I'm positively twitching with excitement. In addition to some of my favourite interior design bloggers, like Victoria Smith of SfGirlbyBay.com, and Gracey Bonney of Design*Sponge, there are also technical graphic and web designers as well, like Laurie Smithwick of LeapDesign. And don't even get me started that the fabulous Gayla Trail, photographer, writer, graphic designer and sustainable gardener extraordinaire (you may know her site YouGrowGirl.com) will be there. Add accomplished programmers, renowned artists, experienced marketers and business people and even a senior attorney with the FTC who will be speaking on the new blogging guidelines, and the mind boggles with the amount and kind of information I'm likely to have coming at me over the next few days.
So, I'll take good notes, and will report back soon with everything I've learned. And if you happen to be in Salt Lake City over the next few days attending the conference, please stop by and introduce yourself. I'm always looking to meet inspiring creative types.
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Karen Walrond is a writer and photographer in Houston, Texas. Read/See more of her life at www.chookooloonks.com
