BlogHer, My How You Have Grown!

Last month I bought my ticket to BlogHer`13 here in Chicago and am so excited that it is returning to our town.

Soon after I got back from BlogHer`12 , my first BlogHer annual conference, I became curious to learn more about BlogHer’s conference hosting history. It took me awhile to dig up everything I wanted to know, but eventually found most of what I was looking for and compiled this list of Previous BlogHer Conferences:

#1 – 2005 (7/30): Santa Clara, CA
Sold out with 300 attendees

#2 – 2006 (7/28-29): San Jose, CA
Sold out with over 700 attendees

#3 – 2007 (7/27-28): Chicago, IL (Navy Pier) 
750 attendees –> I remember my dad clipping a Chicago Tribune article to show me and being fascinated to find out that one of my high school classmates, Jory Des Jardins (who I was in our school’s dance company with), was one of the co-founders of BlogHer. I had been blogging three months at that point.

#4 – 2008 (7/18-20): San Francisco, CA
1,100 attendees

#5 – 2009 (7/24-25): Chicago, IL (Sheraton Hotel & Towers)
1,600 attendees –> Met my friend Melissa “Stirrup Queen” Ford in person and some other ALI Bloggers for lunch, when she was visiting Chicago (where I live) for BlogHer`09.

#6 – 2010 (8/6-7) in NYC (Hilton New York)
2,400 attendees

#7 – 2011 (8/5-6) in San Diego, CA (San Diego Convention Center)
Over 4,100 attendees

#8 – 2012 (8/3-4) in NYC (Hilton New York)
Sold Out with 5,000 attendees –> My first BlogHer conference and I spoke at the session My Blog No Longer Fits Me: Blogging After Life Change.

Have you bought your ticket yet?

Today is the last day to take advantage of early bird pricing.

I hope you will find a way to join me here in Chi-town for BlogHer’13 (July 25-27)!