I’ve been coming to ALA as long as there have been Blogger Salons (I think) and have been a blogger since before that, but I’ve never attended the gathering. This is largely because I’m shy until I know people, the people I know who come to ALA aren’t bloggers, so I know it’s a room full of strangers. Today, for the first time, I gave it a try. But when I got there it seemed everyone was already pretty engaged and I didn’t see any familiar faces (imagine that! not knowing the faces of the bloggers!) and I cut out pretty quickly. So, now I’ve been to one. The next step, I guess, is to go and hang out for a while. I guess I’ll just need to meet up with a Twitter friend ahead of time. 
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Oh Lauren! I am so sorry to hear that we were a room full of strangers. Shame on us, for not being more welcoming and gracious! And your name is so familiar to me–did we meet at one of the 5 Weeks forums? You were a presenter there, weren’t you?
I know how hard it is, though, to show up at an event where you don’t know if you are going to know anyone, and don’t know what it’s going to be like. (jeans? suits? in between?)
We missed you, and yes please Twitter me ahead of time. You’ve got a lot of cool stuff going on–I’d love to hear more about what you’re doing with new tech tools and designing training for students…
And thanks for the kudos on the blog salon!
Posted 15 Jan 2008 at 5:43 pm ¶Hi Alice, thanks for your comment! No problem at all! I really appreciate what you all are doing, and after this blog post a number of folks were interested in meeting up ahead of time for the next one. I imagine you’ll have a number of first timers then!
You’re right, I did participate in 5 weeks! Such a small online library world!
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