Hi from Los Angeles and the BlogWorldExpo – “The First and Only Industry-wide Conference, Tradeshow and Media Event for all New Media.”

Debba Haupert here (founder of Girlfriendology – the greatest online community for women based on female friendship! IMHO!!) and hello friends from BlogWorldExpo – a great conference for bloggers, podcasters, social media folks and everyone interested in learning more about all things internet.

This is my fourth BlogWorld and I love this conference. I always learn from the great sessions and have conversations that change the way I think and do business online. Plus, the BIG bonus, I get to see some friends from years past and meet new friends in the blogosphere.

I was very honored to be selected to speak at this BlogWorld. I spoke on the first day, Thursday (yeah! So I could get it over with and enjoy the rest of the conference!). I spoke on ‘Successful Strategies for Building and Growing Online Communities’ and had a very nice crowd and some great questions/discussions. (THANKS to all who attended!!!!)

I shared a Checklist on Building Online Communities that I wanted to post on our new Blogger Resources page – but it won’t let me post a PDF, so here it is for anyone who’d like to see what we covered and recommend for building online communities:

BWELA Checklist – everyone can have it though

Unfortunately my talk was changed to a 45 minute slot so I was unable to share the Case Studies that I had to share. I’ll post the Case Studies here later today (sorry, have to get over to BlogWorld!).

Again, THANKS to everyone who attended and offered such great feedback! And BIG, HUGE THANKS to BLOGWORLD for allowing me the opportunity to speak at this great conference!

(If you’d like to still learn from this fabulous conference, you can purchase the recordings of the sessions – BlogWorldExpo 2011. Order by 11/5 and save $150 on your Blog World Virtual Ticket! Price goes up to $497 on 11/6!)

Plus!! Had fun giving girlfriends our ‘GFF Girlfriends Forever’ bumper stickers! Want one? See me today at #BWELA or follow the instructions on the link above!