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\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252055104072945122\"<\/a>Sheesh, it’s so much later than I was hoping to post this. I don’t know where the time goes. And before I start, I just want to say that you should head over to the Cybils blog<\/a> bright and early tomorrow and get nominatin’! <\/p>\n

So I realized that I forgot an important part of my conference day in my post yesterday. I had a fairly quiet start to the morning, sitting down to breakfast in the hotel restaurant; there weren’t many people in the section where the hostess seated me, and I had brought my notes for the Cybils panel to peer at over coffee. Soon, I was joined by Greg Pincus of GottaBook<\/a>, whom I’d met at the 2007 SCBWI<\/a> summer conference; not long after that, we were joined by a few more, and soon it was a friendly and lively affair, and a nice start to the day. I just wanted to point that out.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I last left off, we’d just enjoyed the second keynote panel with Colleen and Jackie. After that, we all adjourned to one of two offerings: one for beginning bloggers and one for intermediate\/advanced bloggers. I attended the latter: Kick Your Blog Up a Notch with Pam Coughlan, aka MotherReader<\/a>. Now, there’s no drawing of MotherReader, simply because she was so animated and lively and funny that my doodling just couldn’t keep up. If you’re familiar with her TEOTF article “Be a B-List Blogger,”<\/a> this was the live version, updated for 2008, with a healthy bonus dose of the funny. <\/p>\n

Then…well, then it was time for the Cybils session. I had to miss Mark Blevis’<\/a> session on podcasting, but I had the wonderful privilege of being part of a panel with Jen Robinson<\/a> (whom I met in person for the first time earlier that day–which is silly, because we only live about an hour and a half away from each other) and Jackie Parker<\/a>. We talked about how the Cybils work, and got a lot of great questions and suggestions, and we even had a nice conversation with Philip Lee–yes, the Lee of Lee & Low Books<\/a>, who also joined us for lunch–“us” being MotherReader, Jackie, Colleen, Jen, Anastasia Suen<\/a>, and me. Philip was so wonderful and so interested in all of us bloggers, and he donated a ton of excellent prizes for the raffle, too. I’m now proudly sporting a button that says “Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama.” But I’m getting ahead of myself. Check back for Part 3!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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