Fortune Brainstorm

As a PR professional, I have tried for years for my clients to be invited to Fortune's Brainstrom Conference. It has been interesting to watch bloggers yesterday and today comment about the event, in particular Tom Foremski. He doesn't seem to impressed, in fact he seems rather bored. He did also mention on his blog that more excitment is happening within the halls of the event and not the sessions.

Also, there seemed to be some bloggers/reporters upset with who i attending, I saw one comment that mentioned tier 2 media were invited. Interesting to see the comments..I plan to keep reading...

HP Touchscreen

Saw a friend of mine at the HP booth today at BlogHer and they had the coolest item on display, the new HP Touchscreen Monitor. I mean this thing is cool, check out the info..

I am working my contacts to see if I can get one..you use HP software and everything is done based on touching the screen. One of the things they showed me was playing games, such as Solitare, I mean I am addicted to this game but I think it would be 100 times worse if I had one of these monitors...

Come on Ann..set me UP!!!

Day One--Over...

So..Day One of BlogHer is over and it was great, I met so many people and learned a ton. There isn't anything about BlogHer that i didn't like, from the kick-off, exhibits, people, sessions and one think in particular, the Sesame Street suite. When I was a little kid, I loved Grover, I mean loved Grover, I even had a cake in the shape of Grover...

So, imagine how excited I was when I got to have a video of myself with Grover, I am bringing it home to the kids, they are going to love it.

Anyway, Blogher was awesome, can't wait for more and I will deffinitly be her in 09...

BTW-a huge shout out to my friends at HP, that touchscreen is awesome..i would love to play with it!!!!!

Is Mommy blogging Radical...

Sitting in a great session about Mommy Blogging..is it still radical? First it is amazing to me how crowded the room is, it is standign room only..additionally the opinions on mom blogging is so different..

There is deffinitly a mix of thinking with regards to mom blogging..some seem to love the swap and seem to try and make money. Also, there are those who seem to blog to build a community...all these thoughts are pretty cool..

If I take anything away from this session it seems that they are telling people to be themselves, that is my favorite. That readers want your opinion, they want you to be real, they want you to be yourself...that to me is awesome..

The other thoughts, mom's that make money from blogging..is it really a bad thing to want to profit from a blog. Yes, I blog because I love to write, but if this becomes a business, I am not going to complain..

Anyway, the conference so far has been awesome...

First Blogher Post

Day one..i have been here since 8am, all registered and walked the exhibit floor...Let me tell, not being on the PR side is very strange, I knew how the folks behind the table felt, talking about their products/swag until their mouths were dry. I have some cool swag..sat down at an awesome table..learning about SecondLife and Kirtsy..

A Full Night Sleep

So, I am attending BlogHer on Friday, I am really excited because I hear this is a great conference for mom bloggers. It is also in San Fran, which I love, I never get to head to the city anymore, so I am excited about that as well…

The one thing I am most excited about, sleeping in….no one waking me up at 2am by poking me in the face! I get to sleep an entire night, without being kicked in the face, I swear, that is the highlight of my day!!!!!

Social Social Networks..Social Social Everywhere...

Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Twitter…lets talk about this Web 2.0 world…have we hit the limit on social networking sites or are more still to come. It seems like daily I am receiving a email from a friend to join a new site, don’t we have enough….

Which one is better, is it necessary to be part of all these sites? Which is better? Not sure I can answer that question, it seems like it is personal preference..

Some people I know really like Myspace, while others are hooked on Facebook..Asia has a fascination with Friendster and the world seems to be in aw of Twitter…Now LinkedIn, I think professionals see this as the next HotJobs…

The one thing that drives me insane about Facebook, the aps, some are just plain stupid..let me poke you, no let me SuperPoke you, let me ask you, why? Why is it necessary to SuperPoke someone..that seems like a big mystery.

How about Twitter? This fascinates me, it sometimes feels like a voyeuristic tool, that I am getting a peak inside a persons’ home, their personal like. There are tweets that make me feel uncomfortable, like why is that person tweeting about using the restroom..I don’t get that! Seriously, is that necessary?

Myspace, I use to be a huge fan, but now it seems more like a place for kids and others to send me Spam. I get more Spam via Myspace than I do sometimes on my Yahoo account…

iPhone Hype...

I have been neglecting this blog for a while, I have been thinking about how I want to continue with it moving forward. Do I want to continue chatting about my life and kids or talk about life, or what is happening with the world. Have I made a decision, not really but one thing I know, I love to write and talk about everything.

So, I think I am just going to write about what gets my attention, if it happens to be about the kids, then it is about the kids, if it is the world, than I write about the world. So, this post is going to be about the iPhone…

I am on Facebook and Twitter and I follow a lot of reporters, I think it is interesting to get their take on what is happening in the world. It seems that reporters are getting tired of the hype..I was watching Tom Foremski’s comments on Twitter and Facebook and wrote about the hype of all the iPhone coverage, he actually made a laundry list of all the iPhone coverage to date, in additionally made a list of articles not related to the iPhone. I have agree with Tom, I want the hype to die…


It is a phone, yes it looks cool and the aps are cool but it is just a phone. Do people really need to sleep in line to buy the iPhone, I just don’t get it…

Am I crazy? Am I wrong? Someone explain the hype to me!!!!