Australian Bloggers Conference.

The Australian bloggers conference has been organised and the website with all the details is now live.

The conference will be held on the 19th of March 2011 at the Grand Ballroom (Level 1) of Bayview Boulevard, 90 William Street Sydney NSW. The conference  is the first ever blogging conference in Australia, focusing on the mum, parenting and personal blogging communities of Australia.

When I first started blogging, Australian blogs were very thin on the ground and when I told some of my family and friends that I was writing about my life on the internet the reaction was always the same. Friends thought I was mad and “The Spouse” worried about me. Colleagues rolled their eyes at me because a proper website was acceptable but a blog, even the word sounded dodgy. Everyone knew that “The Internet”, was full of porn and scamsters, there were dire warnings not to talk to anyone on the internet. Everyone knew that I was going to  get  ripped off, have my identity stolen and go blind from seeing all that porn.

Luckily I had my daughter, Veronica to talk to, as she was the one who talked me into starting my blog. Together we found a whole community of bloggers out there and the rest is history.

Three years down the track, Australia is starting to catch up to America in regards to blogging being an acceptable mainstream thing to do and there are wonderful Australian blogs everywhere you look.

Veronica and I had always been a bit green with envy, when the American bloggers talked about blogher and all the fun they had meeting their bloggy friends at a blogging conference.

Now there is an Australian blogging conference and we dont need to wistfully read the stories about blogher fun. We will be the ones writing the stories and finally meeting our blog friends.Yay.

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