I started blogging over 3 years ago and unlike now, there weren’t a great many Australian mummy blogs about then. I complained about this fact, quite a few times, but at the end of the day, I had a good group of UK and US bloggers to read and I was happy.
What I didn’t have though, that the US bloggers did, was BlogHer.
As much as I wanted to attend, money is constantly scarce here and while with some serious saving I may have been able to come up with 2k, there was a better chance that that money would go on power, or food, or kids stuff every week, rather than into a BlogHer kitty. And considering I’ve watched 4 BlogHers come and go and not attended (to be fair, I was still only reading blogs during the first one, not writing one yet) I think you can count where my money went.
Every year as Blogher came around, I watched jealously, grumbling the whole time and wishing that we had something similar here.
In the last 18 months, Mummyblogging in Australia has grown drastically – I’m reading more Aussie blogs now than ever before. So when Brenda and I started Aussie Mummy Bloggers, we knew that we wanted to create a Blogher-like conference here, for the Australians.
And with a little planning and an awful lot of work, we’ve pulled it off.
Brenda, Karen, Nicole, Tina and I, we’ve been working on pulling this conference together for the last 6 months and as the end of the year draws close, we’ve just about got everything sorted.
Sponsors have come on board (although more are hoped for) and tickets have been selling like hot cakes – so if you want a ticket before they’re sold out, you need to buy one soon. We only have 28 blogger tickets left.
I know money is tight for a lot of you – personally, I haven’t quite worked out where the money for my flights and accommodation is coming from yet (anyone want to buy some ads?) but there have been a few bloggers who managed to pick up personal sponsorships, so that is an option too, if you really want to come, but can’t quite afford it.
I am really looking forward to this, something that is uniquely Australian and personal blogger orientated. I think it’s going to be amazing fun.
Plus, there is a dinner and dance afterwards, which promises to be great. It is, of course, very unlikely that I will be dancing – dislocating joints are not conducive to very much of anything, but I am excellent at dinners. Hehe.
You can chair-dance surely?!
I can’t wait to meet you all – thank you so much for organizing it 🙂
Woo yeah can’t wait!
I cannot wait. I am going to rip up that dance floor and do a nudie run across the stage….. And a million thanks to you and the girls for all your hard work. AMAZING xoxoxoox
It is gonna be mind-blowingly awesome!
Seriously cannot wait! Will be amazing to met so many bloggers in real life that I have connected with over the last couple of years. Mrs Woog – definitely holding you to that nudie run!
For nudie runs and all that dinner dancing business (and let’s face it, a weekend away sans kids) to meet all these amazing bloggers…I cannot wait.
I’ll need about a dozen wines before I take my clothes off. Mrs Woog, are you buying??
I think what you women have done is nothing short of sublimely awesome!!! I can hardly co-ordinate one child to kinder some days. It’s unfathomable to me, the amount of planning you must have put in. So, thank you and you’ll receive a thousand more before March, no doubt 😉 I am really excited to be part of this event.
I will be tearing it up on the dancefloor. I can have a dance or three four you too.
So long as uni doesn’t schedule on that day. Which they might, timetable was supposed to go up today, my subjects weren’t on it
So you may still have my ticket for resale.
Til then, better start training in the wine drinking stakes! 😉
Oh God, I wish I was going 🙁
Never mind me, I’ll just slink off into the corner and sob quietly now. Have a great time, y’all. (No, seriously, do. I hope it goes amazingly, you deserve it to after all the work you’ve put in.)
You’ve all done a wonderful job, and I can’t wait for the conference! 🙂 x
You have all done brilliantly pulling it together.
I’m just hoping that our finances are sorted before you sell the last ticket!
Ahhh I SO wish I could go. I would adore meeting you, Kim, Tiff, Brenda, Kelly. *sigh* Damn you all for being on the other side of the world from me! *pouts*
Can’t wait to meet you, Veronica. I recently cleaned up my favourites page … and there was one of your blog posts sitting in there, that I bookmarked over a year ago, before I even “knew” you!
What you and Brenda and the others have done is nothing short of amazing. I’m so grateful to you all for not only pulling all of this off, but for conceiving it in the first place. What a gift to all of us. Meeting you and Kim and Brenda will be a highlight of this trip for me. Somthing I’ve dreamed of for a long time. Oh, and seeing Woog do the nudie run will be pretty ace too (streaming video, anyone?).
Wish I could be there. Ya’ll sound like such a fab group! 🙂
It will be the highlight of my year! Not only is it going to be a thrill to put names to faces of some of the blogs I just adore, I am in much need to learn so this conference will be an invaluable tool from which to grow from.
Eternal thanks to you all for all your hard work and dedication xx
I get very self conscious dancing, but I’ll be happy just to be there and learn about how to make the most of a blog and meet some of the people I so enjoy cruising by.
And you know that I’ll be sitting here in NZ jealous as all heck…..
Hey, what a coup! Best of luck with your event XXX
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