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This weekend has been all about cake. The 30+ bloggers who came to my house for the BlogHer meetup left quite a lot of food and half of it's cake! They arrived with laptops, silver toenail polish, gossip, and stories about past BlogHer conference. Hot topics: the conference; how to get conference tickets (enter the special offer contests!) WordPress vs. Blogger; making books from blogs; the food conference in San Francisco; April Rose; social media strategy case studies, and a blogger's relationship to comments and commenters.
Before the party I stalked everyone from the Evite, found their blogs, printed out screen shots of the blogs, and wrote Twitter names onto the printouts. We put them up on the wall with blue painter's tape. It was an impressive sight!
By making a wall of blogs, I hoped that people who didn't know anyone would feel especially welcome. Sort of like having a place card at a formal dinner, or a letter of introduction! Everyone enjoyed looking at the Wall, which I think made an impressive sight all clustered together.
If you'd like to follow a pack of Bay Area BlogHers, here's a list of meetup attendees:
Ana from Finding Bonggamom organized the party! She did a great writeup of the meetup,
bonggamom confessing that she volunteered to organize it partly as a relief from only going to little kids' parties for the past few years. Hey! She went to Maker Faire! She's a geek mom who loves books and science and sharing them with her kids. Next time I see Ana, we're going to have more to talk about than blogs because I love how she thinks about raising kids in geek culture.
Like Ana, Meggan from Meggans A Mom was happy to come to a grown-up party that didn't feature fish crackers and juice. She totally cracked me up as she described the heavenly feeling of being in the motel down the street from my house - all by herself - out by the pool with sunglasses on - and sleeping as long as she wanted! I have to say, if you have to be eating fish crackers at the park you probably couldn't find a better mom to do it with, because she has a hilarious take on parenting. Plus her son is an 18 month old badass.
Adina Levin's BookBlog is full of ideas & analysis of books, culture, music, politics, environmental issues, law, and technology - especially social media and social software; all sorts of good stuff. She tends to read nutty, crunchy, non-fiction when she does talk about books. Try What Twitter Won't Kill: RSS and cultural depth, or The Death of the Hit Narrative. I think of her blog as insightful and quirky, in fact I'd say vastly underrated in the realm of tech blogging. If you want to read the prolific thoughts of a hard core Silicon Valley geek going back to 2002, you should read her blog!
Wheelchair Dancer came, filling me with joy not just because it's so lovely not to be the only wheelchair user at a party, but because I love her blog so passionately and she's so much fun to talk with, overflowing with enthusiasm, kind of wild eyed and full of ideas, vivacious in every way. Plus, because she's an athlete and a dancer, she's graceful beyond belief, floating around like a crazy fairy or an elf or something. I can't imagine what it's like to see her actually dance, if that's just her normal state of hanging out. Oh, you think I'm exaggerating! Read what she says about Dancing in Your Bones, and for some fierceness along with grace, Piss On Pity. Wheelchair Dancer has one of the best blogs out there for intelligent, thoughtful writing on any subject she tackles.
I love how so many women from BlogHer are impossible
