I hope to do an actual BlogHer post but I need to get this off my chest too.
I didn't go to many sessions but there was a definite theme running through the ones I did attend. Perhaps it was because, in my opinion, there were a lot of very new bloggers in attendance. Maybe it was just the session I went to. Whatever the reason I heard things like this over and over again. Someone would stand up, say their name and blog name and start off their question with:
"My blog is really little"
"Only my family reads me"
"I don't have nearly the traffic/comments/readers/subscribers as you do"
"My blog is just..."
Et cetera, et cetera.
Can I ask a favor?
Knock that shit off. Please?
You decided to be online, be a part of this digital community for a reason. You established a presence and put your words out there for all eternity. You wouldn't have done it if they weren't important to you. Stop telling the rest of us they're not.
Every time you belittle the work you do (particularly with 'just.' It bugs me to no end when people say they or their blogs are 'just' anything), you are diminishing your space. Why would you make the effort to go to a conference and then tell everyone how unimportant your space is?
Claim your space. Own it. Stop telling us what it isn't and show us what it IS.