{"id":34,"date":"2016-09-17T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-08T03:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T03:10:32","slug":"problogger-2016-conference-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2016\/09\/17\/problogger-2016-conference-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Problogger 2016 conference takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">It wasn&#8217;t the best lead up to my first ever blogging conference&#8230;<\/span><\/h4>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Unprepared, overworked and knowing no-one,&nbsp;<\/span>I rocked up Thursday evening to survey the scene&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">at the RACV Royal Pines resort&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">full of nervous trepidation.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Whilst experienced bloggers packed their conference essentials:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">cameras, computers and copious amounts of sparkling talent.&nbsp;<\/span>I travelled light.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&nbsp;Just little old me @blogspot.com<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"632\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Except that, I came with 20 kilos of addition baggage just in case, <i>AND<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><i>&nbsp;<\/i>two non-blogging friends,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&nbsp;happy to be my roomies&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">for a&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">girls Gold Coast weekend away.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">There was always that thought that I could always join them if required&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Not that I needed a blogging bolthole as it turned out, happily<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&nbsp;we all survived. Me with a big grin.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">My girlfriends got a much-needed break&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I made some great new connections in the Aussie blogging world. Woo Hoo!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"271\" src=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A billboard advertising the Australian Survivor TV show seemed rather apt!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Lesson One: Work out who you are and why you&#8217;re of interest?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Leading a life where I&#8217;m often the new kid in town,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m not adverse to the&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&#8216;take a deep breath and introduce yourself&#8217; malarkey.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">But this time, It&#8217;s not all about me and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m not quite sure what to say.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m a crazy soccer Mum on Twitter, with a crazy poodle on Instagram, living in a Melbourne madhouse on my blog, but with enough emotional intelligence to sense this may not be exactly endearing to a room full bloggers searching for great social and professional connections&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I had a few false starts, where I seem to remember describing myself rather rudely as a ditsy blogger, with the memorable utte<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">rings of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&#8216;my blog is just about my life&#8217;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Before I gave myself a serious &#8216;get a grip&#8217; talking to, and perfected my spiel to:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Hi, my name is Wren &amp; I&#8217;m a personal blogger<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Writing about my wanderings here, there and everywhere!&#8217;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I figured that gave me enough to say to sound like I knew what I was talking about,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">whilst giving the listener not the foggiest clue. Perfect &#8211; why does that quote on surprising, mystifying and misleading comes to mind?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to all the amazing sponsors: Principal sponsor Olympus&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Lesson Two: If you don&#8217;t know 1 above, let others do the talking!<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Some politely asked where I wandered, whilst others moved smoothly onto taking the safer ground of talking about themselves. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Both responses I considered wins!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I listened to who they were and what they were wanting from their blogs&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">and lapped up all the words of wisdom from the speakers before I came away with a list of inspirations a mile long.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Surfing the web at the Gold Coast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Lesson three: For virtual travel at it&#8217;s best,&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">dine with the travel bloggers!<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">On Friday night I ate pizza with the travel bloggers and met some awesome Mummy bloggers. A more impressive bunch of women you will never meet. Full of stories of travelling around the world with their families, juggling homeschooling, airports&nbsp;and a whole heap of affiliate links and appropriate sponsors with ease.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Whilst we flitted from Colombia to Calcutta to Coolangatta without a single yell of &#8216;Are we there yet? Or &#8216;I need to poo&#8217; I smiled at their confidence and charisma and remembered when I arrived in Belgium twenty plus years ago, with a ten-day-old baby, a toddler and without even a &#8216;<i>Bonjour&#8217;&nbsp;<\/i>of Flemish.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">A quick flashback to my giant green double buggy that wouldn&#8217;t get through the security barrier of my local Delhaize Supermarket, and I&#8217;m in awe of these Super Mums.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Where was blogging back then, when I needed it?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Keeping quiet about my roots in the crazy soccer mum world, I was happy to be flanked<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&nbsp;on either side by strong American women who&#8217;d landed on these distant shores having fallen for their Crocodile Dundee Aussie men.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m more at ease with fellow first generation Aussies who can talk about their love of life and their love-life Down Under whilst in the next breath talking wistfully of their motherland.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you to Problogger for a wonderful conference<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Lesson Four: You don&#8217;t need to have a perfect blog, or to have a well-formed plan, you just need to get your&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(excuse me for this)<\/span>&nbsp;arse into gear,<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>and at the very least have your back end under control!<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Ha! Such an Aussie approach to it all, which I loved. The kind of bottom line message was a &#8216;no worries&#8217; approach meets &#8216;Crickey! Get a grip.&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">The greatest thing about&nbsp;attending Problogger was (unlike at other&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">conferences) it is pretty difficult to tell across a crowded room, who are the most successful bloggers, or who has the words Top Influencer on their business cards.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I love the messages of the likes of Emilie Wapnick from Puttylike, that some of us are a little bit complicated and that it&#8217;s ok to do, and be many things.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Indeed the written and technical skills needed to produce a beautiful blog do not transfer necessarily to amazing public speakers. But nor do they need to be, if you have a passion, a belief or something unique to say, your on-line audience will love you for this.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Attendees at Problogger 2016, were primarily newbies and indeed from the one&#8217;s I spoke to quite a few who were yet to start a blog. Which meant far from being the underachiever, the fact that my blog had survived the two-year mark, was an achievement. I&#8217;m giving myself a pat on the back for this \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">I do need to get my design and my backend under control. I did not meet a single Blogger blogger. So at some point Word Press here I come&#8230; when I have figured it out &nbsp;and when I have the time. If you have done this and have any tips for me, please let me know how you did it!<\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Bloggers find a possible post in everything!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Lesson Five: Create evergreen content<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Only once did I get the unexpected response of&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;Oh how lovely, you must have a load of fantastic evergreen content with that?&#8217;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Of course, I agreed, making a mental note to do more gardening posts if the evergreen <\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">content is seen as desirable!<\/span><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Evergreen view from our room<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Ha Ha what a laugh &#8230; oh well it seems I have quite a few things to work on&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Wish me well&#8230; Does anyone out there in blogland have their backend under control?! 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