If you have never been to a BlogHer conference (a conference by women bloggers for women bloggers, started in 2005) you have missed something.
I go for a number of reasons, but mostly to hear the stories -- why you blog, what you blog about.
One of the people I was hoping to connect to in real life was Jane Goodwin, who blogs at http://www.janegoodwin.net/ (probably better known as Scheiss Weekly) and is on Twitter as @mamacita. I've been following her blog possibly as long as she's been writing it -- years anyway.
So we met up over a live plug in the hallway on Friday (Jane's computer battery was dying) and again for breakfast on Saturday.
One thing I want to mention: Jane Goodwin and I are much of an age--and decades older than most of the women at BlogHer 11. Were we invisible? Jane C. Smith wrote about older women's invisibilty but well...Jane Goodwin and I are inconvenient women.
Saturday morning, Jane G. and I talked for over an hour.
One of the stories she told me was about a teacher in a k-12 unified district who was hounded out of the district, because the teacher's principal and superintendant were completely clueless about how the internet works. It reminded me strongly of the hounding of Julie Amero (the Norwich, CT substitute teacher whose prosecution was corrupt)
I hope she can tell that that teacher's story sometime.
And I hope that Jane G. and I can meet again, many times, in real life.
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Goodwin was a presenter in the Write Brain track, on Essential Writing and Editing skils, a panel moderated by @lesbiandad* (Here is the liveblogging transcript of the session: http://www.blogher.com/liveblog-write-brain-essential-writing-and-editing-skills?wrap=node/305898/virtual-conference/posts)
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*later on I'll post a fan-girl story about @lesbiandad. Jeezle, I was so glad to meet her in person. We only live maybe 30 miles apart.
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