BlogHer '09: We listened. We mulled. And here are some of the decisions you've helped us make
Almost six weeks ago Lisa, Jory and I asked for your feedback and help on making BlogHer '10 even better than BlogHer '09 in a post we called: We're listening. And here's what we're mulling over so far...
We asked five different questions, and you answered. Thank you so much for your help. You didn't always all agree, but you all took the time to share your feedback constructively and sometimes at great length! It is exactly that willingness to jump in and help us work through the tough issues that continues to make BlogHer the conference the community built.
So, now it's time for us to respond and let you know what we took away from all of your amazing feedback. Some of this stuff is, well, complicated, and we're still mulling it over, but in other cases, we've made some decisions, now that we know how you all feel about them. Here were the questions:
1.How can we appropriately acknowledge BlogHer’s official sponsors?
2.What is the proper place for conference swag?
3.How should we respond to the many unofficial parties that are held?
4.How should we respond when members of the community do things that hurt the community?
5.Finally, who is BlogHer for, what do we discuss at BlogHer conferences and how do you think we could communicate it, so that people know it?
But, you know what? We're going to reverse the order in which we address those questions, because it seems only right to start with questions about this community first.
5. Finally, who is BlogHer for, what do we discuss at BlogHer conferences and how do you think we could communicate it, so that people know it?
BlogHer's annual conference is for bloggers who blog about every topic under the sun, and we work hard with teams of bloggers to create conference programming that reflects the diversity of our community. So, what can we do to both maintain that diversity of content and to make sure more people (including the media, by the way) know about it?
Here are some of the things we're thinking about sessions:
Writing, writing and more writing: We've definitely heard you on wanting more writing programming. When we announce our call for ideas later this week, you'll see we've added a Writing Lab track. Start sharpening your own pencils to suggest the kind of programming you'd like to see in that track!
The mommy track: When we issue our call for ideas, you'll see a new Writing Lab track, but you won't see the MommyBlogging track. We introduced that track in 2008 for the very first time, mostly to acknowledge the strong presence of parenting bloggers in our community. After just two years it doesn't seem to make either moms or non-moms happy, so after two years of doing that track (after not having one the first three years) we're going to retire it.
Geek Lab: Yes to more Geek Lab. No to this year's set-up. Our 2009 experiment that worked as far as the content, but didn't work because we didn't feature that content properly. Next year we'll plan a better set-up, longer sessions, more intermediate sessions. Check, check, check!
Promoting the programming: We need to make as much of a fuss over the programming as we do over the parties. We as BlogHer; we as a community. We're thinking about lots of ways we can do that, and we're thinking of what kind of tools to provide you, so it's as easy to share what sessions you're excited about attending as what parties you're excited about attending. We hope you'll feel the same way and will help us!
The Community Keynote: Nest year we'll plan a tad shorter community keynote, with tissues PLENTY of tissues on each table!
4. How should we respond when members of the community do things that hurt the community?
This is a tough one. While sponsored bloggers have attended previous BlogHers, 2009 was the year it became somewhat commonplace to hear about individual bloggers being sponsored to attend by companies. We don't know exact numbers, but we doubt that more than 20% of attendees had any such sponsorship.
However, we learned from your comments that, unfortunately, a few sponsored bloggers may have given the majority of them a bad name. While we already have guidelines for sponsored bloggers, we learned from your comments that these guidelines need to be strengthened in the following ways, in order to try to give sponsored bloggers even better guidance:
We created guidelines that encouraged sponsored bloggers not to become "human spam" by indiscriminately passing out materials. However, it seems that this practice was still common at the conference, and irritated a considerable number of attendees, who shared this complaint in our post attendee survey. In response, we will update the guidelines to prohibit distribution of swag in the conference space. Business cards, post cards and coupons? Fine. But leaving such materials lying around or interrupting authentic conversations to pass out materials is still not OK.
We will post and re-post these updated and even more specific guidelines and include them in attendee newsletters. We will also proactively send the guidelines to any blogger we see mention sponsorship. We want to help you help yourself (and your sponsor) by not aggravating people. The guidelines are designed to help you make a good impression (and, by the way, we give similar advice to our official BlogHer sponsors!)
Most importantly: We will publish and then enforce consequences for violating these guidelines. We have said that we don't want to be community police, but it's clear that we need to ask for better cooperation, giving those folks who violate guidelines one warning, and then we need to make it clear that we can and will confiscate the badge of someone who doesn't adjust their behavior.
This approach may sound draconian, and we don't take it lightly, but we urge you to read the comments on our original post and our post announcing BlogHer '10. This is a problem for our community, and we will work to fix it. It's true that we can't control people - hey, we really don't want to! - but we can control how we respond. It's clear from our post-conference survey and other feedback that the community is asking us to help them have a better experience.
3. How should we respond to the many unofficial parties that are held?
This question may be one of the toughest nuts to crack, because we're talking about New York City! But there are some things we can change about our approach this year, in the interest of making sure that you all know what to expect when you walk into the identified "BlogHer Conference Space" - meaning all of the meetings rooms, ballrooms and exhibit space.
Like what? Well, here are some examples:
Since we have secured the hotel's entire conference space, we can make sure it is only released, if at all, to groups that will follow recommended policies and guidelines. Just like many of you, we have concerns about things we heard about regarding RSVP management, crowd control, exclusivity and swag mania.
It was understandably confusing that we promoted 20 different parties with which we actually had nothing to do. Lesson learned! We will be much more discerning and communicate more clearly why we're promoting what we're promoting.
We control how our logo and trademarked name are used, and we can make sure that, again, use of our logo means that we are actually involved and that certain guidelines were agreed to. (PS-If you see a use of the BlogHer logo which you question or wonder about, we would love to hear from you. Please email me at elisa@blogher.com.)
The bottom line is that you should not have to wonder if or how we are involved with any onsite event or party.
2. What is the proper place for conference swag?
Speaking of swag. We all know it was a big topic of discussion this year. Let's talk about BlogHer sponsor swag, where you can expect to see it, and how we hope to make it as opt-in as possible:
The Expo Hall: The Expo Hall in New York is its own separate space, as Chicago's Expo Hall was. It's going to be sponsor city in there, and we're OK with that. If you are not OK with that, we hope you will not go in the Expo Hall :)
The conference tote bag: Survey says...most people still want to get a conference tote bag with some goodies in it. We will ask you if you want it. Please decline the bag if you don't want swag. Not every item in the bag will be personally usable by every attendee. And it doesn't matter if you're a mom or non-mom, that's going to be true. We will do a better job with the Swag Recycle Suite this year to allow you to discard that which you don't want to keep or give to someone you know.
Room Drops: Most of you think of them as surprise gifts. Some of you think they're overkill. If you've already reserved your room online, you'll have been asked whether you want room drops. You will be asked again upon check-in. You can opt out of room drops if you want, and if you don't want to participate, or if you're concerned that some things are dropped to which you might be allergic etc., then please do opt-out.
Sponsor stations in other spaces: We think sponsor stations that deliver something of value to attendees are OK, as long as they don't do any kind of in-your-face sell. If we're going to tell sponsored bloggers not to do such hard sells, you can bet we give our sponsors the same advice. What qualifies as "something of value"? Food and beverages are a good example. The fact that we feed you all day long is a benefit that allows a lot of folks to be able to afford to attend the conference. Value or not, no sponsor station should block a hallway or be in your face. But we think, in moderation and when serving a functional purpose, sponsor stations can be OK.
We will beef up our advice to sponsors by creating a Sponsor Best Practices document that each sponsor will get, and that we'll go over with each sponsor in detail. That means we'll be suggesting what kind of swag is useful, practical, desirable. Again: Not every attendee will have the same perspective on that. But we all agree about some things that are not useful and desirable. And if sponsors are willing to take your card and ship you something, or to give coupons instead of swag, we're all for that idea too!
Those best practices will come in handy, because we are going to reserve all suites in the hotel for official sponsors. When we do that, we can issue the policies and guidelines we need to...just like with the parties...about space planning, RSVP-gathering, crowd control, swag distribution and hours of operation.
1.How can we appropriately acknowledge BlogHer’s official sponsors?
We start with the premise that our conference sponsors expect and thoroughly deserve public acknowledgement.
Why? Well, we have always believed in being transparent about how critical sponsors are to this event.
Bloggers pay only $99/day if they register with earlybird pricing, and that brings perks that most conferences do not deliver. To be perfectly clear, that means food: Full breakfast, lunch, snacks and hors d'ouevres, open bars. Food and beverage are the number one variable expense for any event, and the more people attend, the more you must spend. Each attendee pays only about one third of the cost of their care and feeding. And as we've raised the bar on what we serve (going from single drink tickets to open bars, as one example) we've kept the price per day exactly the same as it was in 2005. That means lots of inflation for us, none for you :) Sponsors make this possible.
That being said, we do think we can set more specific and consistent standards for where, when and how we acknowledge sponsors, such as:
We will give the sponsor acknowledgements, including any sponsored user-generated videos, before every general session their own scheduled agenda item, so you know exactly when sponsor acknowledgements and announcements end and programming begins.
We will use sponsor acknowledgements to announce fun conference activities. So much is going on, and it's not just sponsors that miss out when attendees can't keep track of it all...it's attendees too. Not every activity sounds fun and interesting to every attendee, but surely we can all recognize that lots of attendees will care about things like cooking demonstrations, video blogging stations, fashionista visits, raffles for free car tires, tweet-ups, etc.
We hear you loud and clear on sponsor presence in sponsored tracks and sessions. No more seat drops or decorations...just good old-fashioned signage, an informational table in the back of the room and a brief verbal "thank you" at the beginning of each sponsored session.
All the usual online, printed and newsletter branding will still apply.
We are dying to hear what you think of the above results from our long weeks of listening and mulling. In the coming weeks, we will also be publishing:
Our call for ideas for BlogHer '10 (look for it later this week!)
Updated guidelines for sponsored bloggers
The BlogHer trademark policy
We hope all of these guidelines will give you a very clear idea of how we're working to make BlogHer '10 the biggest, and also the best, BlogHer yet.
We have always enjoyed soaking up all of the post-conference feedback...the good and the bad, as crazy as that sounds. This year there was so, SO much good. We had numerous long-time BlogHer attendees tell us that '09 was the best year yet for them. Maybe after attending a few times, those folks have grown expert on making the conference their own...on seeking out what they love, and moving past what they don't. Whatever the reason, we won't be satisfied until every attendee is as thrilled as those folks! We hope we're making a great start with all of the above decisions and ideas. We're sure you'll let us know, and as always: We look forward to your feedback :)
Thank you, again -
Elisa, Jory and Lisa
BlogHer Co-founders
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Kudos
I fully support you protecting the BlogHer trademark and dynamic brand that has come to represent a community. Absolutely everything you are advancing in these changes is congruent with the mission of BlogHer. Pretty amazing!
Deb
www.debontherocks.com blog
www.3smartgirlz.com consulting
Thank Deb.
We appreciate your support.
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Very glad to read this
Especially in regards to the room drops, because it wasn't overkill or allergies that got me, but honestly, as a woman, I was creeped out by the thought that a strange person had entered my room without my permission. I expect the hotel cleaner, and no one else. (There may be other women who didn't mind at all, but I think there would be a few like me.)
And in many years of political and business convention attendance, I can honestly say that I have never seen room deliveries without any notice or permission. It was uncomfortable.
That said, there could also be an option for people who don't want things in their room, to be able to pick them up at the front desk.
The swag was fine, but could you let them know that magnets are not ok on items because they can cause issues with electronic items we might carry. I ended up throwing anything with a magnet away.
I still say that the individual bloggers there were very nice and there was no bad behaviour but then again, my experience is male-dominated conventions. And in comparison....well, there is no comparison.
Beyond that, all I really want is good wifi.
Great suggestion Aurelia, I would never have
thought of that
I mean about the magnets. Who knew? Or. I guess I knew, but never thought about it in quite the way you bring up. Will go in our best practices document for sponsors!
re: room drops: It's actually usually the mini-bar staff who do them. People who are i your room every day anyway, but I hear what you're saying. Hence the opt-out :) I loved room drops back when I was in the cable TV industry. I'm not sure what that means about me ;)
I'm glad you didn't see bad behavior. Personally, I didn't really either. But we couldn't ignore the many reports from people who did!
And I have to say: The crowd was very understanding about the terrible WIFI situation. After wonderful WIFI in 07 and 08, this was one of my personal disappointments. Obviously on the list to FIX.
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You three are excellent
You three are excellent mullers! Although I love and support BlogHer to death, I didn't think there was anything that could make me consider doing BlogHer'10 (which would be my FIFTH!). Not only am I impressed with the changes you're making re the parties and the swag and the sponsors, I am thrilled with the inclusion of the Writers Track and removal of the Mommy Track. I think this alone will change the focus of the conference in a way that returns the emphasis to Blog as opposed to Her.
Kudos! Congratulations! and Bravo! I'm off to mull a proposal for the Writers Track.
By Jane
http://midlifebloggers.com
http://byjane.blogspot.com
Can't wait to see it, Jane :)
Thanks for the kind words. It is more like you all are excellent partners in this. The feedback, even when critical, was so constructive and actionable. As always, the community leads the way.
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Yee ha!
LOVE the Writing Track!!! Great job, as always.
And anyone who doesn't want stuff dropped in their hotel room can have it sent up the street to my apartment - I love stuff. :)
I really cannot wait for the conference in my hometown!
Suzanne Reisman, Contributing Editor - Feminism & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) & Other Rants
The writing track is my favorite thing...
I agree Suzanne, I cannot wait!!
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
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Great ideas!
I didn't have any negative experiences either, there was just too much good stuff going on to bother lingering on anything that didn't excite me. BlogHer time is too valuable to be in a track/party/PR conversation that doesn't make you giddy.
So, about the Mommy blogging track, I assume that there still be some parenting related sessions? Because the session this year about body image, and what we're saying to our kids through our blogging was really my favorite. Some great discussion happened in there.
So, while I'm fine seeing the mommy blogging track disolve, I would hate hate hate to see such valuable discussion slip away!
I kicked out the idea of more sponsors giving out coupons for their products instead of full sized items to be lugged home in the green team thread about the swag. I am SO happy to see it again here, because I just used the last of my Ragu coupons this week, so that's now 2 months of happy thoughts the Ragu PR team gave me, not just (a FANTASTIC meal and) 10 minutes of PR conversation. If PR teams and reps are looking for ideas for next year, I think the benefits of coupons are vast. 1-your product coupon is way more likely to make it home with the blogger, 2-your product is not going to be discarded because it won't fit in a suitcase causing an annoyance for hotel staff/the blogger, 3-if the blogger doesn't want to try your product, they can easily give that coupon to a friend or relative it might be a better fit for (I gave my Trop50 coupon to my diabetic MIL), 4-the blogger can mindfully experience your product when they get home, separate of the mad PR rush in the expo hall, 5-the cost and waste of a coupon compared to another magnet/key fob/etc is very low for both the company and the planet. Good stuff!
Since I did not experience any of the negativity while I was there, I can't speak to the other aspects of the post, but thank you so much for always being proactive. And thank you for being constantly able to define and redefine what BlogHer needs to be, usually when something gets this big, it stops being personal. Not with you guys. Your level of commitment is stunning.
Yes on coupons!
A big YES on coupons. They're easy to carry, don't cause problems, and allowed me to consider the product at my leisure.
In fact, when I did my Big Swag Roundup (http://reviewplanet.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/blogher-swag-2/) weeks after the conference, I found that sponsors who provided coupons stayed on my mind a LOT later than those who brought product -- and I was much more likely to go back and purchase that item again later, without a coupon.
The only exception to this was where I had to go to a store I don't normally visit -- like the GAP jeans. I haven't bought them yet. But Trop50 and Ragu? Have been on my list nearly every week since. And I've already ordered again from Land's End, which had slipped off my mind -- but slipped right back with a $10 coupon in my bag.
Susan
http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com & http://motherswithcancer.com
Some responses, Leighbra
Thanks for your comments Leighbra, and I'm so glad you were consistently excited :)
re: mommy sessions: Before there was ever an entire mommy track, there were individual sessions that were clearly about parenting blogging, and I expect there will be again. Some topics really are about parenting blogging...like the session we had last year about blogging about your special needs child. Some session are really about universal subjects.
re: coupons: I don't expect every sponsor to give only coupons, but I can tell you that a LOT of the BlogHer Food sponsors are putting coupons as their item in the tote bag. They're concerned about giving food and about people being able to transport items home comfortably, so coupons are a great way to help people use your product easily.
And thanks so much for your kind words. This is personal to us. Jory, Lisa and I still think that we created the best jobs we've ever had, because it's not just a job, it's our mission!
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Just riffing on that for a second
I got my start as a freelance writer by writing about parent/kid gift-giving issues and parlayed that into an every other month column that's now in its sixth year in a regional family magazine. But most people in blogging know me from my political writing so go figure. There's no question that topics related to a writing track can dovetail with parent blogging - so I wanted to point to the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop conference is a great one to take a look at for the kinds of sessions they provide re: writing as a craft and then how you use that craft for whatever your topic/interest might be.
All sounding great - so glad I've registered already for BlogHer '10.
Jill Writes Like She Talks
Very excited about the writing track!
Also, I agree with everyone who's a fan of coupons. I used EVERY SINGLE COUPON I brought home this year, and my husband is now a die-hard fan of Banana Nut Cheerios. :)
That's very interesting!
Sponsors often ask us what makes for good swag. I like to say things that are useful and sustainable. I will add coupons to the list.
Jory Des Jardins
writes on business and career topics at BlogHer, and on her personal blog Pause
Fabulous Improvements!
I think these are some great, well thought out solutions to address issues that came up at the last BlogHer. I had a marvelous time in Chicago and I can only think that I'll have an even better time at BlogHer in my hometown of New York!
Megan
BlogHer Contributing Editor, TV/Online Video
My Personal Entertainment Blog: Megan's Minute
My Review Blog: Meg's Rad Reviews
Twitter:@MeganSmith
Good Stuff
I'm impressed with the changes you've outlined based on feedback. I think retiring the Mommy track is a good idea. A writing track sounds great. As for Geek Lab, glad to see I wasn't the only one that was excited by the idea but couldn't quite find a session that worked for me. I couldn't articulate what didn't work for me. Happy that sharper minds than mine are putting together a new set-up there!
Thank you! And please let us know if you have
a 'Eureka!' moment
...about the Geek Lab. We are yet mulling...so to speak.
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
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Geek Lab Suggestion
I never got to the Geek Lab, too many other things I wanted to see and do but maybe what part of the Geek Lab needs to be is specific appointments with people for specific problems.
What would help is if there were a Geek Lab triage set up before the conference started. People would submit their particular issues and then members would be grouped into labs based on those problems. Some sessions would be short and with small groups or one on one for minor problems and some would be more in depth for more significant issues and questions.
Then there could also be free-form sessions for walk-ins.
Megan
BlogHer Contributing Editor, TV/Online Video
My Personal Entertainment Blog: Megan's Minute
Twitter:@MeganSmithImpressed
...Very impressed that you're mulled over these issues so thoroughly and carefully---and responded so quickly---was it really 6 weeks ago?? This was my first BlogHer and I had no major complaints but now that I've read through all the changes, I can see they will change the experience for the better. I think dropping mommy track and adding writing track is a good, healing and unifying idea --I'm looking forward to see what you come up with for Geek Labs---technology being my personal Achilles heel. Can't wait to come again in '10.
http://blog.darrylepollack.com/
Yay writing track!
Hip hip hooray!!! *Happy dance*
Regarding the Geek Lab, I'd like to see a balance between the structured and unstructured. I didn't attend any of the sessions because they weren't the right fit for me. I was really hoping to find a spot to just chill out a bit and hang out, and maybe pick up on some geeky things (or possibly even help someone out if I knew how to do something which is kinda laughable!). Something with a drop-in/chill out feel in addition to the more structured sessions. Some people just need help with small things, like maybe they want to know how to add a badge to their blog and they are having trouble. They don't need a whole session for that. A sort of "Help a BlogHer out" spot. And um, a few more spots to plug in a laptop and recharge wouldn't hurt either. ;-)
Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
We want to create several hang-y spots...
...that can double as more serious learning places too. Though with Geek Lab we will have to make sure those spaces have reduced noise and more of a lab feel. I want to attend those sessions next time. I'm ready to step up my techy side.
Jory Des Jardins
writes on business and career topics at BlogHer, and on her personal blog Pause
Printing out the code!
I love your thoughts on this! The drop in and hang out did end up
working for the last afternoon of the conference. It's like it took a
while to hit its stride. It can be a little rough, because some tech problems are 10 minute ones and others take hours!
One idea I've been mulling over is to
have "Tour of (platform) code" for major platforms. WP, Typepad/MT, and
Blogspot. But with this addition: having tables or areas of the room
for each platform, with big printed posters up with some of the
code/panels/elements of the blog's back end marked up and labelled with
explanations! So, a visual learning aid to get people thinking and
looking and talking to each other about it. I'm a big fan of printing
things out on paper. It's amazing how clarifying it can be, looking at,
say, the html for blogspot blog, printed out, with big arrows in marker
that say "THIS IS THE HEADER" and "YOU PUT A WIDGET HERE".
Another idea relates to Megan's suggestion. Get people to sign up ahead of time, but based on a goal. "I want to put pictures on my blog" or "I want to rearrange and add to the widgets in my sidebar so they're most effective for readers" would be excellent goals. If people were grouped by goal, then despite them being on different platforms and the "how to" being different, the groups might be more cohesive and end up helping each other out.
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Liz Henry
Composite: Tech & Poetics
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
Bwahaha!
"It's going to be sponsor city in there, and we're OK with that. If you
are not OK with that, we hope you will not go in the Expo Hall :)"
I loved this line. Just had to tell you.
P.S. Great job addressing all these issues. My ONLY beef with BlogHer this year was water. But I was a dehydrated bovine at the time so...ya know. Probably won't phase me next year. (We won't go into how much I wish Coke was your sponser, but I have a Diet Coke can as my freaking flavicon. :) )
Fabulous job ladies. I cannot wait for 2010!
Water, water, water
Oh we heard from lots of people about the water.
If we're going to ask you to use a refillable bottle to carry around water, then we better make sure the water coolers are MUCH easier to find, and that there are more of them. Like, everywhere.
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Wow!
I'm impressed. I think blogher 10 is going to be even better than 09, and that says alot. I am over the moon about the writing tracks, and the location. As a long island girl, I have no excuse not to take the LIRR into Manhattie for this awesome conference. Thanks for listening to us all.
Kelly
http://www.ordinaryartblog.com
Now, that brought me back, Kelly
"As a long island girl, I have no excuse not to take the LIRR into Manhattie "
Awesome. Haven't heard anyone say "take the LIRR inro Manhattie" in a long, looong time :)
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I just wanted to drop a note
I just wanted to drop a note to say how consistently impressed I am by you three and the personal dedication you show not only to BlogHer as a company but to BlogHer as its people, both as a group and as individuals. I've always been proud to be associated with BlogHer, and the changes you propose for the future will only strengthen that feling.
The whole family is looking forward to seeing you all again in 2010 (which will be my fifth time!).
BlogHer RAWKS!
You guys are awesome!
I'm sure it took some time to go through everything that was submitted, especially given all the areas to consider. So I'm impressed that you were able to not only come up with some great resolutions but that you did it so clearly and concisely.
Yay for writing track!
Now, I just have to convince my husband I neeeeeeeeed to go. Please don't sell out!
JD at I Do Things So You Don't Have To
Look forward to seeing you both again
Leah and JD, thanks for the kind words. JD, perhaps you should just follow Leah's lead and make it a family trip. How can your husband not want to go to NYC *with* you? And there's plenty for him to do for those times you don't want him hanging around ;)
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Exceedingly Pleased
Elisa,
I have to say of all the things I've read about BlogHer and the conferences this has excited me the most. Thank you for listening to those in the community and those watching the community as an example.