Comments on: Bloggers are people, too

By: Lindsay Dianne

Lindsay Dianne — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I figure this:

If you’re going to a blogging conference to be accepted by the “big bloggers”, or even REACHED OUT TO by them, forget it and stay home.
If you’re going to learn about blogging and get everything you can out of the keynotes, you probably wouldn’t bring a child without childcare.
If you want to, you can create a shitty experience for yourself anywhere, you don’t have to travel to a blogging conference to do it.

If you want to have an awesome time with other bloggers, plan to stay with or hang with FRIENDS that you already have, online or not.
You’re exactly right. We are responsible for our own reactions, So you can’t help that the venue messed up. You can help how you receive the news and how it affects the rest of your experience.

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have experienced the wallflower feeling at a an event, but it changed my mentality. When you do not know anyone at the event, you have to treat it the same as going to a party where you ar unfamiliar with the other guests. And chances are, there is someone else there feeling the same way. Since my first event, I have learned to make the first move, approach other people. And I have made some wonderful friendships that way.

By: Kim - Mommycosm

Kim - Mommycosm — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A-to-the-MEN!

You hit the nail on the head. I was at the event you referenced.

“We are responsible for our own reactions.” <– Great life philosophy!

By: DJ Nelson

DJ Nelson — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I registered my first domain in 2001. Back then my site was a blog but that is not what we called it. This blogging thing has gotten out of control. Well, not the blogging, but the egos that come with it. I went to this one event awhile back and this one lady seemed all shocked that I had no idea who she was. Heck, today I still don’t know. These people get a Twitter account, hop on Facebook, get a bit of traffic and think they are Queen Elizabeth. No, I don’t know who you are, is that what you really want to spend time talking about?

Ok, rant over. Sorry it was stemmed by the comment about “big bloggers”. Thanks for giving me an idea for a future blog post.

By: TheMaven

TheMaven — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“What’s more, she was told her seats were taken and had to find someplace to sit for herself and her child.”

This actually happened to me at BlogHer11. I would say it was the same event you are writing about, but ironically, it happened mere hours after this post was published.

Maybe it shouldn’t have happened, but it did. But it speaks volumes about the bloggers who were rude instead of gracious.

I went on to find a new table, and had a delightful evening and made new friends. And my baby? They loved her.

My child is still breastfeeding, I didn’t have the choice to leave her at home. The event in question wouldn’t have been disrupted by her presence either. If she had become disruptive, I would have been gracious and left.

I definitely got out what I put in, and I wouldn’t change a thing!