Show Me the Blog Updates!

As the Communications Director for this year's Show Me the Blog Social Media and Blogging Conference, I want to keep my Stylish Life crew in the loop because I know you all plan to register and attend. So without further ado, here are this week's updates.

• We are very close to a sponsor deal with a MAJOR brand *tosses confetti*
• The team is expanding and in need of a Volunteer Coordinator.
• Hotel Lumiere Show Me the Blog rates are available! Check out the gorgeous rooms here.
• We have a new video posted on the blog.

In the few weeks that I have been involved with Show Me the Blog, I am just amazed at how it is coming together. Conference planning is serious and hard work, Danyelle is working hard to make this year's event a a huge success. I really hope you all plan to attend. If you want to learn more about social media or take your blog to the next level, then plan on being in St. Louis this October. Click here for presale tickets.

Show Me the Blog Updates

As the Communications Director for this year's Show Me the Blog Social Media and Blogging Conference, I want to keep my Stylish Life crew in the loop because I know you all plan to register and attend (not so subtle hint there). 

So here is what is going on at Show Me the Blog headquarters this week:

-  We debuted a sleek new web design.

-  We have a new sponsor on board! Yay!!

-  There are TWO scholarships to attend Show Me the Blog. Click here for more information.

-  Robyn Wright shared her 2010 Show Me the Blog experience. 

-  Exercise your right to VOTE

And last but certainly not least, we have sponsorship opportunities available. Show Me the Blog Social Media and Blogging Conference 2011 will be a highly interactive conference between attendees and their social media communities. Becoming a sponsor provides unlimited exposure for your brand. Your samples, marketing and promotional materials will be in the hands of new media influencers. Bloggers and social media enthusiasts are the most respected and regarded providers of information, news, and product reviews. As a sponsor, your brand or product will reach across multiple platforms, which translates into inquiries and potential sales. The benefit and ROI is immeasurable.

Show Me the Blog is the perfect place for your brand. For more information, please email us!

 

I Hate to Toot My Own Horn... TOOT-TOOT!

The power of the web is just remarakable and I am so thankful for all the friendships I have made online that have become off line friendships as well. My good friend, Miss Danyelle, blogger and social media darling is gearing up for her second annual Show Me the Blog Social Media and Blogging Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. And that is not all, yours truly is a part of the Show Me the Blog team. *horn tooting starts now* Feel free to toss some confetti too... I'll wait.

This year, I'm the Communications Director for Show Me the Blog. Yay me!!!!

For more information:

Latest Show Me the Blog post

2nd Annual Show Me the Blog press release

By the way, presale tickets are available now!!! $50.00 for the full conference or $35.00 for one day.

The Beauty & Power of the Internet & Social Media

Some days I wonder how I got anything done before the internet. Conducting research using an actual book version of an encylopedia is almost up there with watching Lucy and Ricky Riccardo in their twin beds on a tiny black and white TV. Okay maybe not, but you get where I'm coming from. Over the past six years I have seen the beauty and the power of the internet work in my life in ways I would have never imagined. Now that we have social media in our lives, many of us are forces to be reckoned with. We're online networking, creating and building brands, chatting with the Who's Who in a variety of industries.

A couple of weeks ago I met up with Danyelle (The Cubicle Chick) and Jess (That Tech Chick) for dinner at Devon's Seafood. Local Chicago bloggers Rai (Swa Rai) and Jaye (Curvatude) were also in attendance. Danyelle and Jess are from Missouri and Texas respectively who met online and discovered their mutual love of blogging and travel and decided to start a travel series, The Traveling Chicks.


Fabulous bloggers dining 9/24/2010

I met Rai on Twitter. I noticed that she and  Nikia (ChiTown Fashionista) were just as fashion obsessed as I am and we were always tweeting something fashion related. Once we all met in person, we just clicked. The three of us together equals trouble but I'm the sweet and innocent one *batting my eyelashes*

I even met my bff, Adeea (The Trendy Socialite) in a now defunct online discussion group. That's the beauty and power of the internet. The amount of networking that goes on via Twitter is a wonderful thing to see and experience. I can't speak on the benefits of Facebook since I'm no longer a part of the FB hubbub.

If you do not have some sort of online prescence you are really missing out. What are you waiting for? Start a blog, set up a YouTube channel, sign up for Twitter and get to tweeting! Like it or not this is the age we live in. Embrace it and get involved.

Like Paula Patton said to Queen Latifah in Just Wright, "Don't be hatin' on your girl, when I become a brand."