Bloggy Boot Camp in Austin Texas

Blog Conference Attendee

I am so excited to be headed to a small blogging conference in Austin this weekend called Bloggy Boot Camp. The conference is on a road tour of sorts, with Bloggy Boot Camps held in various cities around the country this year and last. The savvy bloggers behind Bloggy Boot Camp are the founders of an online community called The SITS Girls, which stands for The Secret Is In The Sauce. The topics from city to city are pretty similar, but the speaker lineups vary. So I’m looking forward to talking about personal branding and blog monetization, community building and online privacy with such well known bloggers as Laurie Turk and Jessica Gottlieb.

But in addition to all this blog business, I get to have a girls weekend with my Houston fashionista gal pals, Pam and Ellie. Not to mention all the other fabulous women I will meet, many of whom I already know from Twitter. There will be wine. There will be much laughter. There will be cameras a plenty.

I haven’t decided yet whether or not to bring my laptop, but I’m leaning towards it. I got fabulous new business cards from Moo using various photos all centered around a water theme. I love that you can get a whole pack of cards each with a unique photo on them from Moo. People absolutely love my Moo minicards that advertise my photography business, but these are the first I’ve created specifically for my blog. I learned the hard way at Mom 2.0 Summit that blog business cards are a must for any blogging conference. My experience there is, of course, what has inspired me to want to attend Bloggy Boot Camp and other similar meetups. I met such amazingly talented women there. Much like Photocamp Houston did in 2008, Mom 2.0 Summit radically enhanced my Twitter experience. I’m sure Bloggy Boot Camp this weekend will be no different.

So I will have my bag packed and waiting on the curb Friday afternoon when Ellie swings by to pick me up for our Austin road trip. Woohoo!

Author: Sarah

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