I am not quite sure Melbourne’s Federation Square knew what hit it on Saturday July 30, 2011 when 300 bloggers from right around Australia joined forces at ZINC for Nuffnang Blogopolis!
For those of you who know me, you’ll know that my full time gig is as Community Manager at Nuffnang; Australia’s largest blogging network and community. Over the last few months I have been frantically working away to plan and organise Australia’s largest blogging conference to date – Nuffnang Blogopolis. With this being my first professional job since graduating from uni back in 2008 I had never done anything quite like this before and had very little experience organising an event of this caliber. Luckily for me, I am quite pedantic when it comes to planning and organisation and with only a few little hiccups along the way coupled with some minor stressing on my part, I managed to persevere. With the help of our small yet awesome Nuffnang crew, we put on an incredible day full of great content and learnings.
The day was broken up into seven master classes, each featuring presentations from some of the biggest names in the Australian blogosphere including the king of Australian blogging himself – Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. There was so much content covered throughout the day providing those in attendance with a wave of excitement and inspiration upon conclusion of the event.
I was so flat-out busy on the day of Blogopolis I did not have the chance to make the rounds and speak to as many bloggers as I would have liked or even hand out my UPrinting business cards – there are so many of you I wanted to have a good chat with but I just simply ran out of time. To all the incredible bloggers and clients that presented at Blogopolis; Nicole, Michael, Arnold, Dani, Minh, Christie, Suze, Nikki, Andrew, Jaci, Phoebe, Jeff, Darren, Candice, Eden and Helen – thank you so much, the day would not have been able to run as smoothly as it did without your cooperation! Again, sorry I didn’t get the chance to chat with you all but you guys did a super dooper job!
The twitter hashtag #nnb2011 was created especially for Blogopolis and at last count generated more than 12,500 tweets with a reach of 23.3 million impressions – to be involved in something of this size and reach and knowing I played such a huge part in it all is quite exciting. The feedback received has been so positive that we are now looking at making Blogopolis an annual event not only in Australia but also the Asia-Pacific Nuffnang regions so keep an eye out for further details!
You can watch a short video of Blogopolis put together by Trevor Young of BlogHub below:
Here’s a few photos of Blogopolis captured by our star Photographer, Dani of danimezza.com.
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LEFT: Melissa – One Crafty Mumma, Tammy – Girls Wear Blue Too, Corrie – Retro Mummy
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Icebreaker Bingo – an awesome way to get everyone up and mingling
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I see an empty “Bieber Fever” box, clearly this blogger hadn’t found me yet
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Fellow Nuffie, V
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Me being the nerd that I am and live-tweeting the conference #nnb2011
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Suze of Chocolate Suze presenting on Blogging Inspiration
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This is what a room occupied by 300 bloggers looks like
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My Manager and the ever-so-hard-working, David Krupp, aka Kruppy
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Darren Rowse of ProBlogger commanding the attention of 300 pairs of ears
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My Director looking ever-so-proud, Mr. David Lee
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LEFT: The always elegant Candice of Super Kawaii Mama and the inspirational Eden of Edenland
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The gorgeous Trae of Where’s My Glow? Also known to double as my Sound of Music partner in crime after a few drinks #justsaying
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LEFT: Phoebe Montague of Lady Melbourne, Kruppy, Nikki Parkinson of Styling You and Arnold Aranez of Mr Gadget on the Editorial vs. Advertorial panel
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The AWESOME Nuffnang crew
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A beautiful rainbow at the end of Blogopolis to mark an extremely successful day
And as for the after party photos… what happens at a Nuffnang party, stays at the Nuffnang party!
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You can check out more photos of Blogopolis here.
You can view presentation slides from Blogopolis here.
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Ummm vaaaa you used my real name!!! Hehe.
You did such an amazing job, it was so great to be able to see you again too! Next time we will start the Sound of Music renditions earlier in the night so that we can re-enact the puppet show.
MWAH!!!
Hahahah OMG can you imagine the puppet show… after a few drinks :-/ Oh I have the sudden urge to watch The Sound of Music now but it’s already 11pm! Ugh, maybe I can sneak in a few songs before bed on the iPod! Was great to see you again too, glad you made it down!!!
P.S. WTF is Kruppy doing in that crew photo?!?!?!?! 😛
I asked him that same question when I saw it… it was meant to be a funny group photo but apparently only half the group got the memo. He’s poking his nose up like the clown that he is 😀
Congrats Lynda on putting on such a successful event. Learnt loads through out the day and also in the evening – I should not try and keep pace when drinking with young folk!
Nic, you are a hoot when you get a few drinks into you, hilarious and loving any convo thrown at you! You should always keep up with us and our tequila shooting ways, makes for an interesting night and some interesting dance moves!!! Glad you had a blast!
lyndaaaaaa congrats mate it was a fabulous event! and lols yes what happens at the after party stays at the after party 😛
Thanks Suze! Glad you decided to present, you were great and I’m pretty sure you have a brand new audience of mums!
Sounds like a great event and good for you for doing such a great job organizing it. Would love to have been there but way too close to bubs arrival!
Thanks Caz – it was a great day and would have loved to have you there! Will definitely be more Blogopolis’ in the near future though and possibly in Sydney too so there’ll be plenty more chances for you to attend! Eeee the bub is due soon, right? I know one of the parenting bloggers that was at Blogopolis was due to give birth any day and someone even opted to live-tweet the birth if it happened at the conference! Hahaha.
Hey Lynda, so glad to finally meet you, even if it’s just a few seconds 😀
You did really well on the event, especially considering it’s your first for organising such a big and important one.
Maybe you can be my wedding planner one day lol
Haha wedding planner… Now that’s stretching it! Was great to meet you too, I’m sure I’ll see you around at other Nuffnang events since you’re local 🙂
Fantastic work Lynda! Best blogging event in Australia this year!
Thanks so much Arnold, appreciate it! Loved your presentation and so glad your dancing people on the beach worked hahaha! I’ll remember to (never) give up!
this looks like a really fun event. i’d like to attend a blog conference some day here in america. looks like you did a great job of organizing everything. kudos!
Thanks Mack – do you work for Blue Green? I knew a few people who worked at the Orlando one when I used to live there! The US has so many huge blogging conferences, I really want to attend one next year there!
haha bluegreen…yeah. i actually lived in orlando for about 5 years but i never knew about BG until i came back down to south florida. if you do attend a blog conference here, which state would you be inclined to attend one?
Hey Mack! I’d love to attend BlogHer, it’s held in a different city each year, this year was San Diego and next year is NYC! In a perfect world though, I’d want there to be a blogging conference in Orlando so I can claim it as a work trip and visit all my friends there and Disney all in the one shot 😉 haha.
Congrats again on the conference — I first saw the food bloggers tweeting about it and then realized you had organized it 🙂 Sounds fantastic!!!
Thanks Heather – Yeah I’m the Community Manager here at Nuffnang. Currently in the Philippines learning from the Nuffnang team here to make our Australian community stronger and better but also fitting in sight seeing where ever possible – hope to get some posts up about my time here soon, been taking video too!
That’s an awesome blog conference!
I hope Nuffnang will organise one in Singapore next year. ^^
Maybe they will!
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