I can barely keep up with all the amazing things said about the SOBCon07, the Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference this past weekend. I’m still processing this amazing event. I stayed in Chicago longer to meet with local bloggers and do some business, so I have just arrived back and will be sharing the lessons I learned in the next few days.
I was so eager to meet all the great bloggers whose blogs I admired for so long, and was surprised at how many people were just as excited to meet me. It was a love-feast, as many have described, without a doubt.
As I struggle to find the words about this event, I’ll leave you with a partial list from some of the great fellow bloggers there who blogged online, during, or after the conference included:
Updated 2018: Some links have been removed as they are broken or dead.
- Christine Kane – SOBCon07, or My First Blog Conference, or Dude, There’s a Druid in the Lobby.
- Brand and Marketing – Chris Brown – What I Learned at SOBCon2007
- eMoms at Home blogged about Wendy Piersall – SOBCon Leaves Me Speechless, Fame and Being Uncomfortable, Friendship, and THE Lorelle, and Doing the Bloggy Dance SOBCon Style
- Tony D. Clark – When the Ninjas Crossed the Street, I Completely Lost My Train of Thought
- Chris Cree – Decompressing – SOBCon07 is In The Can and SOBCon-07 Eye Candy
- Geek With a Laptop – Sean Rox live blogged the entire event with multiple posts.
- Purple Wren – Live Blogging in Chicago
- Jason Alba bloggged live with: Drew McLellan, Mike Sansone, Mike Wagner – The Iowa Way, Andy Sernovitz – Word of Mouth guru, Rodney Rumford – VideoSticky, David Armano – Conversation by Design, Liz Strauss: Successful and Outstanding Blogs, Phil Gerbyshak: 10 Ways To Make It Great, Tools Panel: Chris Cree (moderator) with MyBlogLog, Evoca, TheGoodBlogs, Jason Alba – Wendy Piersall, eMoms at Home, Blog Coach, Blog Critiques: What’s a Successful-Blog?, and Welcome and who the heck is…
- Robert Hruzek – SOBCon ‘07 is Over… But is it, Really?
- Rick Cockrum – SOBCon O7 Update
- Chitika Blog – Dancing Bloggers! No but, seriously.
- Phil Gerbyshak – 5 things I learned at SOBCon
- Slide Share – Video Trends Sobcon 2007
- Perfectly Petersen (Jesse) also live blogged with: Terry Starbucker Speaks at SOBCon, Wendy Piersall Speaks at SOBCon, Sponsors Speak at SOBCon – MyBlogLog, Evoca, and TheGoodBlogs, Mike Sansone, Mike Wagner, and Drew McLellan Speak at SOBCon, Andy Sernovitz Speaks at SOBCon, Rodney Rumford Speaks at SOBCon, Ben Yoskovitz Speaks at SOBCon, David Armano Speaks at SOBCon, Liz Strauss Speaks at SOBCon, Phil Gerbyshak Speaks at SOBCon, Morning at SOBCon…Waiting for Breakfast, and SOBCon07 Is Everything I’d Hoped So Far
- Dawud Miracle wrote about SOBCon07…Sharing Our Best Conference 2007, Stop Calling Yourself A Blogger, and Link Lovin’ & Huge Huggin’ To All My New Friends From SOBCon
- Lisa Gates – SOBCon07: Why Hugging is a Feast for the Soul of Your Business
- Hannah Steen – Return from SOBCon
- Troy Worman – SOBCon Remembered
- Business Blog Wire blogged about SOBCon with Brain Dump: Thoughts on Better Blogging, Business Blog Wire – Lasting Impressions
- David Armano – Blogs Are Free Samples of Your Brand
- Terry Starbucker – SOBCon07 Recap: This Was Your Show…
- Jonathan Phillips – SOBCon07 – Pictures and Link Love
- Carolyn Manning – Getting It Together
- Carpe Factum blogged live with One Word: Wow!, Live Blogging From Day 2 at SOBCon07, and Returning From A Parallel Universe
- Manage to Change – Mixing It Up
- Tami Lenski – 5 Lessons from SOBs and Accept the Offer and Move It Forward
- Drew McLellan – SOBCon: The lessons
- Adam Kayce – Lessons from SOBCon07: Clarity (again)
- Ben Yoskovitz – Get Out From Behind Your Computer
- Karen – A Deaf Mom – SOBCon — A Learning Experience
- Chris Brown – What I learned at SOBCon ’07
- The Idea Dude – Will your legacy be a 404, file not found, What we didn’t do at SOBcon07, and Big ideas come to Sobcon07
- The Blog Studio – What is your Online Mission? SOBcon 2007
- Tim Draayer – A Weekend to Remember
- Real Estate Trend Diary – SOBCon 07
- Muhammad Saleem – Back from SOBCon 07
- Karen H – SobCon 07 in a large nutshell
- James Gang – We have the microphone. And it’s Live.
- Jim Walton – SOBCon 07, Everyday People
- A Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur – Why I love Wendy Piersall (eMom!)
- >Rohdesign – SOBCon 08 Suggestions
- Alex Shalman on John Chow – How To Create Blogging Synergy
- Family Travel – SOBCon 07, for Successful and Outstanding Bloggers (you!)
- Biz Informer – Learns from Blogger Convention
- Kammie – PMP Buzz – Sobcon07 – Peace, Love and Blogging
- Chris Cree on Successful Blogger – Tid-bits from SOBCon ‘07 – An Insider’s Perspective
- Report on SOBCon07: Link up – attend a blogging conference…
- Google Blog Search – More on SOBCon 2007
Who were the great bloggers present? Here they are and I recommend you visit each and add them to your feed reader. They are some of the brightest minds in blogging, business, marketing, branding, and online communication today.
- Jean-Patrick Smith
- Andy Sernovitz
- Wendy Kinney
- Rodney Rumford
- Troy Worman
- Todd And
- Vernon Lun
- Tony Lee
- Dave Schoof
- Peter Flaschner
- Lucia Mancuso
- Liz Strauss
- Steve Farber
- Jonathan Phillips
- Robyn Tippins
- Terry Mapes
- Scott Desgrosseilliers
- Mike Rohde
- Karen Putz
- Sandra Renshaw
- Kammie Kobyleski
- Mike Wagner
- Sabu N G
- Mark Murrell
- Muhammad Saleem
- Chris Thilk
- Doug Mitchell
- Brad Spirrison
- Cord Silverstein
- Mazur Krystyna
- Kent Blumberg
- Jason Alba
- Jamy Shiels
- Ben Yoskovitz
- Ellen Moore
- Dawud Miracle
- Hannah Steen
- Adam Steen
- Cheryll Cruz
- Mark Goodyear
- Barry Zweibel
- Sean R.
- Franke James
- Jill Pullen
- Jason Wade
- Wendy Piersall
- Drew McLellan
- Dawud Miracle
- Thomas Clifford
- Lisa Gates
- Doug Bulleit
- David Dalka
- Dr. Rob Wolcott
- Ari Garber
- Sharon Scherer
- Easton Ellsworth
- James Walton
- Eric Bingen
- Ashley Cecil
- Alex Shalman
- Joe Hauckes
- Terry Starbucker
- Carolyn Manning
- Tony D. Clark
- Chris Cree
- Rajesh Srivastava
- John Yedinak
- Cristiana Passinato
- Jeremy Geelan
- Robert Hruzek
- Ann Michael
- Phil Gerbyshak
- Lorelle VanFossen
- Tammy Lenski
- Brad Shorr
- Jesse Petersen
- Andy Brudtkuhl
- Diego Orjuela
- David Armano
- Claire Celsi
- Timothy Johnson
- Derrick Sorles
- Ella Wilson
- Chris Brown
- Sheila Scarborough
- Jeff O’Hara
- Sharan Tash
- Tim Draayer
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15 Comments
Wow! Now that’s some link-love. That is wonderfully organized. Thanks for putting it all together for us.
Great, Lorelle! What a wonderful single post with all the links in one place! Thanks!
Yowza! That is such an amazing list, Lorelle…I’ve been following the various posts as they came out, but there’s something about seeing them all gathered in one place that particularly compelling. As usual, you’ve created a one-stop resource for all of us and I’m grateful yet again.
Tammy
Lorelle, it was awesome meeting you! I was shocked when you told us you’ve been blogging for more about 15 years, it’s amazing, you’re a great resource, and i really enjoyed talking and chatting with you, i would’ve liked to stay in Chicago a couple more days to hang out with all fellow writers (hehe since we shouldn’t call ourselves bloggers) I had a blast!
Let’s keep the conversations going! 🙂
Hi Lorelle. What an amazing and very complete list of anything and everything that took place over the weekend at SOBCon 2007.
It was definitely a weekend to remember and like many, I was honored to finally meet you, the one, the only, Lorelle on WordPress in person. The best part was I even got a picture with you. w00t.
Thank you kindly for the mention and link love.
Like you, I’m still decompressing from the weekend, 2 hour time difference and the crazy flight home 🙂
Hi Lorelle
Thanks for spreading the link-love even to those who (although wishing they could have been there) weren’t there, but followed as much as possible of it from the other side of the ocean.
I’ll be there next year for sure!
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
Hey Lorelle.
Funny, I felt the same way. I was so excited to meet bloggers I read – you included. And I was truly blown away by how many people wanted to meet me. I never really thought about it from that angle so it was a pleasant surprise.
This post is great. I see a few posts that I hadn’t seen yet. So I’m going to head right over to visit some more of my new friends.
Blessing to you and your family.
Hi Lorelle… sorry we didn’t get much of a chance to meet and talk at SOBCon07. I’m enjoying your book a lot and am passing it along to my pastor (a new potential blog convert).
I’ll look forward to seeing you at SOBCon08!!
Hey Lorelle,
After meeting you, I can’t believe YOU are at a loss for words… 🙂
Just kidding, it was great meeting you and everyone else and having a chance to get to know the people behind the Blogs a little better.
Hope to see everyone again next year, and maybe even some new faces too. 😉
Hey Lorelle, thanks for such an excellent recap. Your site is so readable, I didn’t need my glasses. Small mercies, thank you. I’m going to have to find out a bit more about 9 rules…
Lorelle! You were a revelation last weekend, helping us in so many ways, and stepping in with a great comment or MC assist at just the right times. You have my utmost respect and admiration as a First-Class “publisher” and new friend. May this vibe we created live long and prosper!
PS: Thanks for this summary of posts; this was a lot of work and I appreciate it.
Thanks, Terry. You were a star in the conference, too. I loved the dance. We all loved the dancing and singing. Quite the star, you show off. 😉
It was a dream conference and I’m so looking forward to next year. Simply amazing!
PS: We have to do “We Are Family” for next year’s song!
Wow– what a great list of all the SOBCon posts!
Who am i? Some one who enjoys writing, as some writing experience.
And enjoys sharing my thoughts with others.
Hey Lorelle, I’ve got the first live remote podcast up as well, click above if you want to hear the interviews with Wendy, Liz, Adam, Derek, and more!
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