Blogher Thank Yous and Remembering Bits
I realized as I jumped into Blogher blogging this morning (still no breakfast, but got a shower!) that the first thing I intended to do was to thank all the BlogHers. To the organizers, particularly Lisa, Elisa and Jory. To my panelists, Bev, Dina, Noriko and Anna (Dina, we missed you, but you were sure there in spirit. I forgot to take a picture of the sign I put up for you. Darn. I read your stuff. Fantastic.) To all the FABULOUS women I knew online before and whom I got to meet (alas, I did not keep a list) and all the FANTASTIC new women I met and learned from. THANK YOU!
I also want to make a few public jottings about things that I want to think and write about further coming out of Blogher:
I don't often come away charged up from conferences. But the last two I have been too, Northern Voice and Blogher, have been exciting and energizing. Both blogger conferences. Now I want to set back and look and see why I have had this experience. I think it is more than the content. No, I KNOW it is more than the content. This is food for thought for the upcoming BlogWalk Seattle on September 2 in Seattle.
Categories: blogher, bloghercon, blogwalk, learning
posted by Nancy White at 9:23 AM
6 Comments:
Your series of thoughts and questions are good ones, I'm looking forward to reading more posts about them. This one particularly caught my eye:
How my extroversion and introversion battle it out at conferences.
I had a hard time with this one as well. Although I wanted to meet people and mingle, I found it exhausting and by the end of the day I had to battle wanting to pull back into my shell. I managed to beat that feeling, mostly because I saw how much fun everyone else was having and I didn't want to miss out. But I imagine alot of people have stories of overcoming their shyness to connect with people. I didn't meet one person that bored me, incidentally, although *I* may have bored some people, and I think I (unintentionally, due to tiredness at the end of the day) scared at least one of my susbscriber's off. Oh dear - mistakes were made - but on the whole I had a blast. Sounds like you did too! :))
The introversion/extroversion thing is something I relate to completely. People think I VERY extroverted, but one of the definitions of it is how being around people affects your energy.
When my boyfriend, the theoretically introverted engineer, and I leave a party, he is usually amped up, energized...while I'm drained and want peace and quiet and sensory deprivation.
I also suck at "closing" conversations per Charlene Li's admonition that we need to network better. I collected maybe 2 cards all day. I had two media folks telling me I was cool and didn't think to say, so how could I write for you? Stuff like that.
Oh, yes, I'm a pure person, I guess. But then I oughta go get a job with salary, not run a business where I need to drum up the money to pay my mortgage.
Arrgh.
Nancy - Thanks for your thoughts and I can't wait to read more about all the insights and learnings from BlogHer. Wish I was there!!! The introversion/extroversion controversy (apparently from other comments) is really striking a chord. I am finding as I get older this is a challenge not only at conferences but on many days and must consciously think about how to manage this and energy levels, etc. Talk again soon. Thanks for continued insights...
Add me to the list of folks who battled with the introvert/extrovert parts of myself enormously at the conference. And reading you now makes me wish I'd spent more time with you there. I'm so glad we're both in Seattle.
thank YOU for being such a wonderful moderator! i'm thrilled that i was allowed to sit up there with you. :)
Anna, the pleasure is mine as well! I only wish we all had more time to talk about global women blogging!
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