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At last year's BlogHer conference I walked in as a newbie and walked out energized as a travel blogger. I had been blogging on the Bootsnall Network under my What a Trip name, but it wasn't until I attended the 2008 BlogHer Conference in San Francisco that my blog began to take off. I owe a huge thank you to Krystyn Heide at Squarespace for offering to design my What a Trip blog when we met at the Blogging 101 session.
I feel like the football player who won the Superbowl only I'm not going to Disneyland, I'm going to Chicago, Illinois to speak about Travel Blogging at the BlogHer conference! Our track is about passion and travel bloggers as boundary breakers. I'm not sure about breaking any boundaries, but I can tell you, without a doubt that I'm passionate about travel!
I Heart San Francisco
Last year was my first time attending the BlogHer conference as it was held in my hometown of San Francisco. I was only able to attend the Friday session because I had a travel event the next day. My favorite part about the day was attending the travel blogger meetup led by former BlogHer Travel Writer Suzanne Reisman. Our meetup could have gone on for days.
I was absolutely floored that BlogHer didn't offer a travel session at the 2008 conference. However, I was very happy that the BlogHer leaders listened to member feedback and acted on our reqest for a travel blogger panel in 2009.
TRAVEL BLOGGING PANELISTS
I'm very excited to be sharing center stage on Saturday, July 25 from 10:45-12:00 p.m. with the following travel bloggers:
BlogHer Travel Writer Pam Mandel:Pam writes at Nerdseyeview,she is also the Hawaii blogger at WorldHum.
Rosalind Cummings-Yeates: Rosalind writes Farsighted Fly Girl
A. L. Venable: Venable writes a place blogging site for Portland, Oregon and blogs at Dimple and a Smirk.
EARLY BIRD PRICING AND HOTEL INFORMATION
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f you are a budget traveler, as I am, you'll want to sign up for the BlogHer conference before the early bird pricing ends on February 28. The conference will take place at the Sheraton Towers in downtown Chicago. BlogHer attendees receive special pricing and complimentary internet access.
Thanks to Kevin Dooley for his Flickr photo.
