Countdown to CyberMummy11: Expat Mum flies home

NINE DAYS UNTIL #CyberMummy11! We want to celebrate the amazing bloggers attending this year’s event,  including a very special blogger who is flying “across the pond” and was there when it all started. Please give it up for Expat Mum, Toni Hargis…

I’m proud to say I was present at CyberMummy’s conception. (I take far too much credit for this, by the way!) I attended the 2009 BlogHer conference in Chicago, with Diane Hayman from In the Powder Room, and met Jen Howze and Sian To. Before long, (okay, after several drinks) we decided that a British version would be a marvelous idea, but that it needed the organizing skills of Susanna too.

Once back on the other side of the Pond, the fab threesome of Jen, Sian and Susanna quickly put their heads together and CyberMummy was born. Such was my excitement about it, and my sure knowledge that it would book up quickly, I managed to find the web site and secure myself a ticket before registration was officially open! CyberMummy 2010 lived up to all expectations, and I was thrilled to be able to meet some of the bloggy friends I’d made over the years. When I see what’s on the cards for this year, the support and sponsorship that CyberMummy is receiving, I’m amazed that this is only its 2^nd  year. You’ve come a long way baby!

This year I’m travelling back from Chicago for more, although I’m combining CM with the annual family trip to England. I’m allowed a few days in London by myself (yahoo) before husband and three kids join me on the Sunday. I’ll be carrying a fairly naff bag with plastic pockets that allow for strategic positioning of “Expat Mum” lettering, so please come and say “Hello” to me if you have a moment.

Toni Hargis, Aka Expat Mum

Founder Member of Brit Mums and first ever registrant of CyberMummy!

Thank you Toni! We’re not sure if you will be awarded the “Furthest Travelled” award but we can’t wait to see you again in 9 sleeps!

Keep up with all the news that’s fit to print on the CyberMummy site, by following @CyberMummyUK and using the #CyberMummy11 hashtag in your tweets.

~Karin

About Karin Joyce

Karin Joyce is the creator of Embrace Happy, an inspirational and motivational website where the focus is on celebrating the good in our lives every day. The Embrace Happy tagline is: Not every day is good but there is good in every day. Before starting Embrace Happy, Karin was one of the “old school” bloggers from the early days of what was then British Mummy Bloggers with her parenting blog Cafe Bebe. In between school runs, blogging and being a wife to Mark and Mum to Ella (6 1/2) and Sam (3), Karin also works as a freelance social media manager and consultant.

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