Social Media Tips: Attend Low Cost Conferences
Social Media is about Socializing online and IRL (in real life) to network with people for a multitude of reason. It is the human thing to do. Find people in your business AND find your passion niche. Find your tribe. Where do you belong? Conferences and Expo’s are a terrific way to find out what others are doing and learn new skills or resources. SheCon 2011 was completely FREE to attend. Originally located at Bonaventure near Weston, it moved to Miami because of some unforeseen circumstances. This was a great conference.
We were given a nice carrying bag (used it for Art Supplies because it is a nice size). The bag had lots of goodies but my favorite was the MetroMint mintwater. Very special taste!
Guy Kawasaki of Alltop.com was the Keynote Speaker on Enchantment. He is a writer. His website is one of those you can register your website and once approved be listed. All four of mine are listed and I do get traffic from his site. Former Apple employee. Evangelist for Apple. Be trustworthy by trusting others. Make life easier for others will enchant them. Remove obstacles. How can I help others? Smile! Make sure to register your Website at Alltop.com
CarrieWithChildren.com hosted a nice dinner party Friday night with Subs from Firehouse Sub with Chocolate Chip cookies. Fantastic networking event with good food and drinks. After a six hour drive this was a welcome event. I like Firehouse Subs
Carrie was a very lucky woman. Driving down with a Buick Enclave courtesy of General Motors Southeast as a ambassador for Firehouse Subs sponsoring her attending the conference and Winning a wonderful mattress from Sleep Innovators. Now that is the way to do a conference. My luck was going home with one of the pillows courtesy of another blogger who had gotten two. Use it every night to curl around. Love it!
Maria de Los Angelos @vicequeenmaria talked about Travel Writing as a travel editor at miamibeach411.com Recommends tripatini.com and travel writers.com Write about where you live or take short trips off season. Find a niche in adventure, budget or single travel.
Write Comedy hosted by Oren Katzoff and Jack O’Brien of Cracked.com suggest writing for them if you have ideas and want to start somewhere. Writing includes editing and sometimes publishing. Make a schedule for writing and for marketing on Facebook and twitter.
FireTruck Tub overlay for infants Photographer Eileen Ludwig
American Standard Brands – Thank you for the new shower head
Walking around the Show Room floor was enlightening and fun with a variety of vendors with lots of products of interest. Pillows, shower heads, pancakes, coffee, cars, tennis, wine sisterhood, CraveLocal, Baileys Coffee Creamers, iStockphoto, MetroMint, and Coworking.
De Wafelbakkers was fun with pancake saucer to throw and get in the mouth of a cardboard cutout child Of course, I had to try throwing pancakes and miss several times but still won a prize of a great Cooler bag for bringing home your refrigerator or frozen foods from the supermarket. Have used cooler bag many times.
Terry Wheatley, the founder of Wine Sisterhood, hosted The Sassy Suite each evening where we enjoyed wine, cheese, and hand massages. Registered with our Business Cards for an IPAD2 give away WON by my fellow Travel Writer Jennifer Huber of SoloTravelGirl.com The Hand Massages were fantastic. We met many other Social Media people for a great Networking event.
At the Sassy Suite, meeting Aliza Sherman in person was terrific. She was helping the host with a Pink Feather Boa and princess crown. Aliza was one of the very early bloggers long before most who now present at many of the conferences. She paved the way for those bloggers coming after her. Very personable! Nice too. Aliza author of Everything Blogger Book with a new book on Crowdsourcing
Future trends in Social Media and Web apps presented by Aliza Sherman Her presentation is posted to slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/alizasherman/smart-ways-to-use-future-tech-social-media
The 2011 SheCon Expo had a lot of challenges with the move and FREE passes being booked and not used. The gathering was smaller than expected but great as an attendee to have so many to meet who did make the effort and came. I like it!
Lots of knowledge to learn from those who were creating groups for meeting or coworking together for sharing office space and knowledge.
2011 Attendees who registered and went are considered Founders entitled to a special Pass Promo Code for VIP privileges posted to the SheBlogsConference.com Blog June 6, 2011 New location for VIP posting at sheconexpo.com When you register for 2012 make sure to have the VIP code, follow the directions on the Registration page.
Update
SheCon 2012 has been announced for Orlando at Disney Hope to see you there
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Eileen Ludwig of Social Media School brings to the world decades of computer experience with a desire to learn and share current technology multimedia tools for communication. She is owner of four sites: FreelanceTourist , Digital Photography, Web Design School, and Social Media School Each are in different stages of development and evolution.
