how to keep your sanity at BlogHer
I’m gearing up to head to BlogHer this weekend. This will be my 3rd time going, and it’s in New York again so I am looking forward to the conference as well as a couple days of geeking out to Broadway shows. Mark will be joining me on Saturday for what we’ve dubbed our Epic NYC Date Night Weekend. Our last time together in New York was two years ago when we were on The View. That time, we had about 24 hours in the city and stayed out all night visiting places we . . .
highlights from mom 2.0 summit
After our big trip to Florida a couple weeks ago, I got to head down to Miami for a few days to catch up with the Mom 2.0 Summit. I wasn’t planning on attending this year – I’ve been trying to reign in my travel schedule and Miami seemed so far away. But when I realized that our Disney World trip would have me in Florida the very day that this conference started, I couldn’t bear the thought of flying home just as all of my favorite blogging folks were arriving. When Laura asked me to . . .
building community in the digital age
This post is sponsored by Chase – a strong supporter of the Global Cities Initiative Last week I had the chance to attend the Global Cities Initiative in Los Angeles. This is a five year initiative to equip cities to strengthen their local economy through research in exports, foreign investment, and immigration policy. It is bringing together local and international leaders to expand global reach, based on best practice and policy intervention around the world. There was an . . .
mighty summit 2011
I’ve been meaning to sit down and write about my time at Mighty Summit three weeks ago. I’m finding it hard to know where to begin. I was beyond flattered to have been invite to this event, and confess to having some pre-summit jitters that were about 10 times as nerve-wracking as my usual pre-conference anxiety. The Mighty Summit is an annual conference for leaders in media, so the list of attendees was an impressive roster of women who have edited magazines, written tv shows, . . .
this week in iphone photos: blogher edition
This past week was BlogHer, so before I left I had a little mani-pedi session with India, in a joint effort to both make my feet presentable and assuage my guilt for leaving for the weekend. After learning that hotel parking was $26 a night, I decided to take the train down to San Diego. It ended up being really relaxing, and I had a chance to chat with Ciaran and assemble some of my marketing materials for the conference. (I stole this photo from her page.) This would have been a . . .
how to stay sane at blogher
The drama. The egos. The social posturing. The politics. The parties. The private invites, the rejections, the corporate deals, the free stuff, the cat-fights over swag, the celebrities, the drinking, the dancing, the tattoos, the time Mike Tyson's tiger was found in Pioneer Woman’s hotel bathroom . . . BlogHer is crazy, ya’ll. This is gonna be one of those posts where I break the first rule about blogging: don’t blog about blogging. So if long posts about . . .
bloggers, charities, and the question of poverty tourism
There was some interesting brouhaha on twitter this week from the blogging world. In case you aren’t completely entrenched in the blogosphere, I’ll break it down: Heather Armstrong, writer of the mother of all blogs Dooce, went on a media trip to Bangladesh along with Christy Turlington, to learn more about what the charity Every Mother Counts is doing. Cool, right? Well, the trip received backlash and a public fight played out on twitter. I covered this whole spat in detail . . .
Social Media Musical
Improv Everyone flashmobbed a tech conference with a skewering of social media. This is every kind of awesome. Hat tip to Caleb Gardner. . . .
mom2.0 conference recap
I’m back from another blogging conference. Mom 2.0 was a great conference. Really great. But I just don’t know how to recap a conference without saying the same thing I’ve said after every conference I’ve attended. Conferences are such a wall of overwhelm for me, and even I’m tired of hearing myself repeat how much angst and anxiety they cause. But just to recap, here are some of the emerging themes from this . . .
how has social media changed your relationships?
I go to a lot of conferences – sometimes for blogging, sometimes for orphan care issues. But I’ve noticed a pattern. In the days before I leave, I always do the following: get weepy about leaving my children spend about 46 hours in activities designed to procrastinate packing have a wardrobe crisis and try on every outfit I own spend 13 minutes actually packing write a post crowd-sourcing for whatever topic I’m speaking on So, guess what this post is gonna be . . .