I was at a big convention-type gathering this past weekend...and it wasn't San Diego Comic-Con. I attended my third BlogHer Conference, after a three-year absence.
I'm doing a Storified recap of the experience, in the tradition of my BEA Highlight Reel, but I'm breaking it into two blog posts so it won't take up quite as much space in your eyeballs, or in your feed readers.
BlogHer14, The Personal Highlight Reel
Recapping my third (and probably last) BlogHer Conference in tweets and photos
- I couldn't sleep past 2 AM the night before BlogHer'14. I finally got up a little past 4, and discovered an email from Virgin America telling me that the flight I was scheduled to take to San Francisco at 11;25 AM had been bumped back nearly two hours. (My travel plans apparently overlapped those of President Obama, and Air Force One trumps Virgin America.) It left even later than that, and landed just in time for the Bay Area rush hour. I was already a little stressed when I got to the convention center that evening, which was a less-than-ideal condition for my solo arrival at the Evening at the Expo opening-night party.
But since I wasn't in SoCal, I got some NorCal face time with one of my oldest LA-based blogging friends, which included meeting her co-blogger and sister Linda and joining her and her MOMocrats podcast partner Cynematic at BlogHer14 sponsor California Women Lead's kickoff event for the get-out-the-vote initiative The Plus 1 Project.
Part 2 will post tomorrow.