I’m slowing getting back into my daily grind after spending a few days in the beautiful LA area. I had a wonderful time on the west coast (first time ever, but won’t be my last) for the 4th Blogging While Brown Conference and the first ever live Black Weblog Awards. I wish I could have stayed a little longer because I didn’t want my amazing vacation to end. Even though my good time has come and gone, the memories and friendships made will last forever. I wanted to do my wrap up a little different this year, mainly because I didn’t take a lot of personal pictures. More about that later. As I was waiting for my return flight home, I started to implement a few tips I learned when I got the idea of this post.
Photo Credit: Skylar Hensley (http://SkyyLyfe.com)
9 Lessons I learn from attending Blogging While Brown 2011
#9- Network, Network, & Network some more
Before I left, I set out to make sure that I reconnected with a couple of people as well as meet my fellow tweeps I’ve been chatting it up with online. You can plan all you want but you just has to go with the flow. Last year I came back with tons of business cards. This year I only came back with 5 and I remember my conversations with each and everyone of them. I think that’s more valuable. Next steps are reach out to them again to keep that bond. A lot of the networking is done out side of the panels, which as a shy person like myself is hard to do but the more events I attend the better I am becoming with breaking out of my shell.
#8- Stop hoarding your G.I.F.T.S and share them with the world
During one of the break I stumbled upon a group of attendees having an unconference and they were sharing their gifts. You could see the passion in everyone who was sharing their stories. My GIFT is being a nerd because I love (besides the candy) technology, coding HTML//CSS, anything that others may consider “uncool” – that’s me. Other GIFTS that were shared was the ability to make connections and empowering others through technology. Shout out to actress and comedian Kim Coles for allowing us to be part of her G.I.F.T.S: Gratitude – Intentions – Forgiveness – Triumphs -Self-Love.
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An error page is given when you click on your link. I would like to see the rest of your list.