#BlogHer08 Highlights

When I met Sarah from Findable Blogs sitting next to me in a SEO training I said a silent prayer “Thank you God for Girl Geeks.” She showed me some really cool html code and taught me what a meta tag is and helped me find it. She also went with me to Google.com and now I know for sure, It’s NOT me screwing up my Adsense account – it’s YOU Google.

See the 3rd person from the right? That’s Mona Gable. She’s a political writer and she writes for The Huffington Post. This election she’s covered Edwards, Hillary and Obama. She’s pretty much who I wanted to be when I grew up. She also wrote an article about girls and bras that I hope to link to on Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me when it comes out. She was very warm and I enjoyed her company.

These are executives from Essence, Redbook and Bravo (with our own Lisa from BlogHer – who I L-O-V-E). And yes I did run up to the front with my card and thrust it in the Redbook Editor-in-Cheif’s hand and yes I did stop her in the hall and say, Look I’d just love to have face time with you and then proceed to tell her all about my Empowering Girls writing!

And this is Ellen Gerstein, who writes Confessions of an It Girl and is also a real live book publisher who sat right next to me in the first Speakers Training. I H-E-A-R-T Ellen. She came to my panel – she has a daughter – and I went to hers and it was amazing and wonderful.