Thanks to our friends at H&M, members of the EverythingMom team flew from locations across Canada to attend the BlogHer ’10 annual conference in New York City last weekend to meet, mingle, network with and learn from other attendees. Some of our team met in person for the first time! Needless to say, we were ALL excited to get the weekend going and find out what adventures awaited us.
Day One (Thursday):
I arrived at the Hilton New York in midtown Manhattan first, excited to see the city and to be able to meet people as they arrived from various Canadian and US cities.
There was a Kodak Big Apple Bus Tour on Thursday, and Kodak had generously provided an EasyShare M580 digital camera with which to enjoy the day. EverythingMom was invited to take part, but sadly, I wasn’t feeling well enough to attend - with temperatures in the mid-thirties, it was a steamy day in the city! However, we would have loved to take in the sights with Kodak and I can’t wait to learn more about the EasyShare!
Michelle and Carrie Anne followed later in the day and it was time to get our party on! Thursday was a whirlwind day of introductions, connections and celebrations as we came together. It was considered the kickoff night of the conference, so there were no sessions booked - just events both large and small. EverythingMom was there to start things off with parties on Thursday.
Carrie Anne took in the Crazy Beautiful “I heart New York” social in the late afternoon at the Warwick Hotel, across from the Hilton New York (even volunteering to have makeup airbrushed on her!) And she and I met for the first time at the Canadian Embassy party with MomCentral Canada, as it got things going with the great atmosphere at Faces and Names, just a short walk from the hotel. There was a chance to have our picture taken with a Mountie as we came in, a signature cocktail and a crowd ready to enjoy. Fabulous ideas from even more fabulous hosts: @mc_canada, @bunchfamily and @sweetmamadotca.
From the Canadian Embassy party, the EverythingMom team jumped in a cab and headed uptown to the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Bloggers Night Out party. Held right in the offices of the magazine, we wandered halls to the event room and even peeked into a test kitchen! We enjoyed the event, the view and even better – met some of the creative team at Martha Stewart. We very much enjoyed a conversation with Anna Last, editor-in-chief of Everyday Food, a Martha Stewart magazine.
Back into a cab we jumped, this time back to the hotel so Carrie Anne could head to what turned out to be one of her favourite events: an intimate DinHer party for a group of bloggers hosted by Maria over at BOREDmommy. Michelle and I headed in to chat with some of our favourite bloggers at the BlogHer ‘10 People’s Party. After making the rounds here, Michelle and I headed to the Schick Intuition Plus K.I.S.S. & Tell party and then finally called it a night. These were just a few of the parties and private events scheduled for the Thursday night. Since the BlogHer conference and key events were planned to start the next day, it seemed as though many companies tried to schedule their events for Thursday, making it a crazy night indeed. It would be safe to say our BlogHer ’10 conference experience started off with a bang. We couldn’t wait to see what the next day would hold!
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I am so glad to see you joined us at the Nu Skin|Crazi Beautiful I Heart New York Social! It was great meeting new friends. I look forward to chatting more on Twitter and blogs. And if you want to link up your post over on CraziBeautiful Events we would all love to read it. http://bit.ly/bHgGSP
Thanks Steph. It was a great event, well put together. I left a comment on your final blog post. Thanks for the link. Cheers
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