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Can I just start by saying: The standard has been set. And it is Blissdom. I don’t want to freak all the other conferences out or anything, but I just can’t imagine topping this. Partly because, Harry Connick. HOLLA!! But I gotta tell y’all (I can say that after being in Nashville for 3 days), even if he had stayed home Blissdom still would have rocked my bloggy world.
Robin from Pensieve (one of my absolute favorite bloggy peeps) tweeted before the conference started that Blissdom might be 30% learning, 30% networking and 30% girls weekend away. To tell someone you went to a blogging conference….snooze. Well maybe not snooze, but I don’t think SEO, Monetization, Paid Media translates well to the masses. Actually I barely understand it.
So instead lets talk inspiration, creativity, authenticity, passion. That was my take away. The other stuff is great, but when I start to focus on it my blog loses its way. So I am recommitted to writing. Cause content does matter. And when I focus on the numbers and the comments and the SEO and the blah blah blah I can’t focus on the content. And I didn’t start this blog to become a famous blogger or make lots of money or get a book deal (although if anyone wants to crown me queen of blogging, send me buckets of cash or offer me a book….about…..diapers? I wouldn’t hate ya). I wrote a blog to have an outlet.
Stay at home mommy-hood can be really lonely. And in our quest to prove ourselves to be super mom to those around us a lot of times we aren’t transparent. Well here in blog-dom I am me. I am pretty much me in the real world (as those of you who met me this weekend can attest to), but I like to put my best mom face forward. I mean who wouldn’t? But I heard a quote this weekend that resonated to my core. Amber from The Run Amuk said (this is a major paraphrase not a direct quote): “My blog is a great way to met me, and I’ve found it’s a great way for me to meet me.”
See that is the unexpected joy of this blog. I have discovered me. And at Blissdom, I discovered 500 other women who have discovered themselves in their blog. So they get it. And they get me. Even if we don’t all get SEO and Monetization and blah, blah, blah, we all get the power of blogging. The power of our voices and our words and our community. And the 30% that is the girl’s weekend away? That is the very best part. That’s the part where the line between “internet” friends and real life friends get so blurry it really ceases to exist.
Is it Blissdom 2011 yet?
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