For the past couple of years I have wanted to attend a blogging conference. These conferences have finally come to Canada, and now, there is even one in my backyard.
BlogWest 2012 will be in Edmonton from March 8 – 10, 2012 at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel and there are already many fantastic speakers and fellow bloggers attending.
If you blog, or are thinking about starting a blog, conferences like these can really help to point you in the right direction. They can help you to focus your creativity, schedule your time, network, and start your blog or keep it going in a direction that you are happy with.
Not to mention, you get the chance to meet many wonderful fellow bloggers, sponsors, companies and more.
I’ve gotten to know quite a few amazing people and bloggers online, but I have only met two of them in person and there are some speakers and bloggers that are attending that I am a huge fan of so I am excited for this conference to roll around.
If you are at all interested, I suggest you check out the BlogWest 2012 website. Read through all of their tabs. They are beginning to list their speakers and the workshops that will be available and they are updating it as more are confirmed.
Until January 29th, tickets are listed on their registration page at an early bird rate of $199 (fees and taxes extra, but not much) and gives you access to all keynotes, seminars, workshops and the brand floor. It also includes breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks Friday and Saturday as well as all receptions.
I am looking forward to this conference and I’d love to hear from you if you are either attending (as a blogger or company), or are thinking about attending, leave a comment at the end of this post. I’d love to meet you there.
PS – I am not weird in person or anything.
I just found your blog from BlogWest’s tweet, and I’m also excited to go and meet everyone! I don’t have very many posts yet, but I’m really looking forward to the wordpress seminars and the keynote speakers. Who am I kidding – I’m just excited for everything.
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Hi Mikhaila – Thanks for leaving a comment. I hope we can meet up for a face to face intro.
I am attending as well! I was hesitant as a fairly new blogger, but it’s not every day that a conference that won’t cost me much in travel/accommodations comes along! Looking forward to meeting you!
Hi Amy – I’m looking forward to meeting you to. I agree that it is nice to be able to afford the conference. With the savings in airfare, I can even afford a hotel room so I can be ready to go in the mornings and not rushed. Are you looking forward to any sessions in particular?
I’ll be there!!! I can’t wait to meet you Sheri! I’m so excited over this it’s kind of insane but as a Canadian in the west, with little kids (babies even) I didn’t feel I could attend anything before now.
Me too Heather. We are so much alike. We’ll have to see if we have the same taste in wine too ;)
this sounds like extensive testing will be in order to find our true tastes ;)
Can’t wait to finally meet you!
Yay Sami. I’m going to be looking for you.
I have always read such amazing things about blog conferences from the gals on the blogs I follow.. I am really a novice blogger by all means, but I do hope to be able to attend a conference one day!
It would be awesome to meet you too Soozle. I will definitely be going to more so I’m sure our paths will cross at some point.