What are your plans for BlogHer? Yes, there are all kinds of talks and seminars to attend. But BlogHer is also about networking at the parties and meeting all those fabulous bloggers you’ve only know via their blogs or traded emails and comments with.

Here are my plans. No stalking, O.K.?

Thursday

I'm coming in EARLY, so I'll be hiding out at my hotel's spa and workout facility. If I get a chance, maybe I'll head to the art museum or out to Chinatown for lunch.

MomCentral Have a Drink on Us at BlogHerThere's speaker training and a reception in the early afternoon and evening. Then I’ll be at Mom Central and Johnson’s Baby’s “First Drink On Us” party.

This event is only for Mom Central and MotherTalk review bloggers and those who attended Johnson’s Baby Camp. If you haven’t received an invite (and are a Mom Central reviwer of Baby Camp attendee) email me at am at the-write-spot dot com, and I'll pass it on to the folks at Mom Central so you can get your “First Drink On Us” ticket and a button to place on your website.

After two receptions, hopefully I'll be sober enough to attend The People's Party, too. (Note to self: eat throughout and stagger the booze with sodas.) The People's Party is hosted by several bloggers I admire along with colleagues at the Parent Bloggers Network, 5 Minutes for Mom, and Mommy Bloggers. (Colleagues = bloggers I review for, attended the Sony Blogger Event or worked with at ClubMom. Boy, do I get around or what?)

Friday

I'm attending MommyBlogging: Is MommyBlogging Still a Radical Act?

If I can manage, I'm going to run over to the BlogHer Bookstore to between 11:45AM -12:15PM to meet Mona Gable of The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change. I'm reading the book now and hope to review it at MOTHERS Book Bag.

However, at the same time I'm scheduled to have lunch with Chef Rocco DiSpirito who will be demonstrating how to use the new Bertolli Premium Pasta Sauce in a pouch to put a little sizzle back into date night at home. I'm sure there will be a zillion adoring food bloggers attending the lunch, too.

Then I'll be talking at the What We Do: DIY Content Syndication and Promotion.

BH08-125x125-drinkingAfterwards, I'm going to attend What We Do: Writing Workshop with Amy Gahran who I met at BlogHer two years ago and see at The Front Range Blogger Meetups often.

I wanted to go by TypePad's suite for a party, but it conflicts with the closing keynote address. Darn it. I like TypePad and think they're doing a great job staying competitive with WordPress.

Then there's another chance to get "happy" at the Welcome Reception.

Saturday

Breakfast with the Experts: Microsoft will co-host the breakfast and provide top experts for a morning of best blogging and PC practices for all experience levels. I have two choices and will probably go back and forth:

MommyBlogging: The Commercial Momosphere: Policies, Ethics and Outreach

What We Do: There's More to Monetization than Advertising (Though YOU should go see Me Ra Koh at How We Communicate: Photography. I met her at the Sony Blogger Event and she's awesome!)

What We Do: Blog to Book Redux with Jennette Fulda, who I'm rooming with during the conference. I'm a big fan of her book, Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir.

Closing Cocktail Reception at Macy's! I hope to be able to stop by the kid's section to meet some of the bloggers involved with Sleep is for the Weak: True tales of parenthood, BlogHer's first book.

Sunday

Hopefully I'll be awake for this: BlogHer Open Space, the "Unconference". Then back home to Colorado.

See you at BlogHer!