What I appreciate most is the focus on the attendee experience. Where events happen do matter and have to fit within the core values of the organization holding the meeting. This is a terrific example of that attendee experience focus paying off.
Thanks Kevin. We completely agree. The overall experience is very important to our community. Our industry is so new that people really need as much time as possible to network and meet each other. We need to provide opportunities that help make that happen.
In some ways new media seems so mature…in others so infantile. Still lots of room to learn, grow and shape the industry. We have a long very fun and interesting ride ahead of us. This is very cool Rick. Marking my calendar and looking forward to showing Los Angeles to so many of my internet friends. You guys rock! Thank you Aaron.
We do not take your faith in us lightly. We are going to do everything we can to deliver the experience and value you deserve. Being born and raised in San Diego I was born hating Los Angeles for many of the same reasons you mentioned. We were honestly very surprised by all of the changes in downtown LA. The convention center is great. Their are several great hotels like the Millennium Biltmore that are going to be great for evening networking.
There are tons of great restaurants and entertainment options in walking distance. We think are attendees are going to have a great experience beyond the official show hours. Incredible opportunities. Look forward to seeing you in LA. Aaron, you should consider skipping LAX altogether and fly into Burbank if you can.
A far better travel experience if you can swing it. Love the idea. This is exciting news! Being from L. We did it just for you Annette 8.
Oh, I love this. Bi-coastal awesome. This is great news! Downtown L. A has changed a lot in recent years and fortunately people are finally starting to notice. There are some great venues and entertainment options, not to mention great dining and Metro access to areas like Hollywood, Koreatown, and Pasadena.
I think this will be a great conference! Looking forward to BlogWorld LA! Great seeing you last week Rick. You guys are so right that Downtown LA has changed so much over the past decade! Please let me know if you ever want a tour of Pasadena I give walking tours of the downtown area! Great choice! Downtown LA has had quite a resurgence — not what it used to be.
Looking forward to the event, and hoping to make it to NYC as well! With the exception of traffic heh , it really is a great city. Welcome to our fine city, Rick! Just about 20 minutes from downtown. And, let me know if you need any local people on the ground to help.
Its a good tip Amber. All of them are a little farther away but they are great little airports and you can good some great deals there. You say Mandalay Bay is too small, but why was the conference moved there from the conference center anyway? There are some pretty big conferences held there. I should clarify Jeremy. The space we were in at Mandalay Bay was too small.
It was a great location for us last year. Everything was close by but we used every inch of it. In fact if you were at the show on Thursday and you went to the networking luncheon then you saw we had to go around a corner, up an escalator, and down a very long hall way to get to the lunch area. Lots of people got lost.
Lots of others never made it there. We would have had to move into another area of the MB space called hall Shorelines B for the exhibits which is a massive space. Plenty of room for our exhibitors and then some. But the conference space was easily three football fields away and you had to turn a couple of corners to get there. That would have been a major issue for attendees who would have gotten lost, given up, or just stayed in one area of the event.
Thanks for the explanation for the move to LA. Seriously though guys, congrats on the news!! What a great connection that is!! Awesome news! What a present. You made the right move from the L. Convention Center to Mandalay Bay. Part of the charm of BlogWorld is the reunion of old friends and the acquaintance of new ones and convention centers that are not part of hotels are not as conducive to socializing.
Plus, we need the money in Nevada! I completely agree with you about a hotel being a better venue for us. Unfortunately we are outgrowing hotel conference centers and there is no doubt BlogWorld will grow to a point where it has to be in a convention center. That being said, we are going to continue to do everything we can to encourage and facilitate networking for our attendees and exhibitors.
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