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COVID-Related Workshops for NYC Parents: Child Psychology

COVID-Related Workshops for NYC Parents: Child Psychology A live webinar and Q&A with licensed NYC child psychologists sharing strategies for managing child behavior in quarantine and beyond. About this Event Part of a weekly parenting series featuring experts in child psychology, pediatric health, occupational therapy and sleep management. This series is hosted by Green Ivy […]

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My BlogHer ’12 Experience – The Bloggers

I Saw… Some Awesome Bloggers I Met Day 1 was the busiest and the day I met a lot of awesome new people and saw some bloggers I already know. The first person I met was Kay from Movie Star Makeover. I am so glad I met her first, because the conversation we had made […]

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My BlogHer ’12 Experience – Attending and Meeting The Brands and Sponsors

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I went.. At the very last minute, maybe less than a month before BlogHer ’12 I got the opportunity for a full scholarship. My Secret to Affording BlogHer ’12 Being that I was already in NYC, I figured this was one conference I did not want to miss, and I knew it would provide me […]

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Ten Tips I Learned from BlogHer’s ‘Your Blog As a Media Company’ Session

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Jaden Hair | SteamyKitchen.com | @SteamyKitchen | jaden@steamykitchen.com Kathryn Finney | SimplyGoodMedia.com | @KathrynFinney | kathryn.finney@simplygoodmedia.com The following tips were from a very insightful and helpful BlogHer ’12 Pathfinder session. Based on the notes, I’ve summarized the session down to these ten very important tips that every blogger should know. I. Invest in your skills: […]

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BlogHer ’12 – The Brand and Blogger Connection

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This conference session was a very popular one during BlogHer.  The room was filled to capacity and quite a few couldn’t get in. I’m glad I got in, because I felt the information was somewhat useful to me and useful to my readers. This post talks about working with brands, how to pitch to bloggers, […]

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BlogHer ’12 – The Technical: Podcasting 101

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There are many forms of blogging, writing blog posts, video blogging, and then there’s podcasting. Podcasting varies too, there’s video podcasting and audio podcasting. During BlogHer ’12 I attended a session on Podcasting and I must say I learned quite a lot, but I don’t think I’m ready to take my blog into podcasts just […]

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BlogHer ’12/Pathfinder Day – My Blog As A Book Proposal (RECAP)

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Thursday morning I attended an amazing BlogHer session where other blog enthusiasts and myself learned about book proposals. A popular question that went around the room was… “If you were to write a book, what would it be about?” Stefanie Wilder-Taylor of stefaniewildertaylor.com and author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things […]

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Sponsor Me for BlogHer 2012

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I know how last minute this is but KMP Blog is seeking a wonderful sponsor to sponsor me to attend the BlogHer’12 conference in New York City!  Attending BlogHer would be a dream come true. BlogHer Conference aims to connect influential women bloggers together and allows us to inspire, learn and grow with each other. […]

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SXSW Interactive 2012 – Hashtags

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Click here to download the SXSW Interactive 2012 Hashtags’ Guidebook Please note: the times indicated on the guidebook are on Austin, TX time. (They are 1 hour behind if you are following from NYC.) Some time today many of you will be making your way to Austin, TX for South by Southwest 2012. Some of […]

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The New York Times Travel Show 2012: DIY Video Revolution or Guerilla Video by Robert Reid

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DIY Video Revolution or Guerilla Video Yesterday, we learned some great Content is Key tips by Yahoo! Travel Editor’s Deborah Hopewell. Today, we’ll learn some great stuff about working with video. This New York Times Travel Show conference session by Robert Reid of Lonely Planet, was one of my favorite, because he focused on a […]

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The New York Times Travel Show 2012: Content is Key Tips by Deborah Hopewell

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CONTENT IS KEY: HOW Y! TRAVEL IS REMAKING A TRANSACTIONAL SITE INTO A MEDIA HUB In this conference session Deborah Hopewell, Travel Editor for Yahoo! Travel talked to us about internet content and ways in which Y! Travel is transitioning into a media hub. Below are some tips, quotes and other helpful information that Deborah shared […]

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The New York Times Travel Show 2012 – A Brief Recap

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This year The New York Times Travel Show was very informative to me as a Travel/Informational Blogger. The NY Times Travel Show is mainly aimed at Travel Agents or Travel Professionals or Travel Consultants as they prefer to call themselves, but as a travel blogger you too can get a whole lot of useful information […]

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Why More People Aren’t Reading Your Blog…

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo NYC: KMP Blog Review Series 4 of 5 Amy Porterfield a Social Media Strategy Consultant, talked about why people may not be reading your blog. Below are some notes  I took during this BlogWorld Expo NYC session. Social Media Obsessed: – quick read – easy access – immediately gratifying – […]

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Brands & Blogs: The No BS Guide to Advertising & PR for Bloggers

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo NYC: KMP Blog Review Series 3 of 5 Jason Falls of ExploringSocialMedia.com talked about the relationships between bloggers and PR and Marketing agencies. Jason mentioned some great pointers and case studies along with some marketing and PR terminology and descriptions and how they work alongside with bloggers. You can follow […]

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Ways to Monetize Your Blog Besides Banner Ads

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo NYC: KMP Blog Review Series 2 of 5   In this BlogWorld panel Syed Balkhi, John Chow and Zac Johnson talked about Ways to Monetize Your Blog Besides Banner Ads. Feel free to follow them on Twitter: @SyedBalkhi @JohnChow @MoneyReign Below are some points discussed in this session, I hope […]

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Dominating Google and Bing with your Blog

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo NYC: KMP Blog Review Series 1 of 5   In this BlogWorld panel Rich Brooks of Flyte.biz talks about ways we can dominate Google and Bing with our blogs and using SEO. Follow Rich on Twitter @therichbrooks Rich talked about 3 things you need to be a successful blogger: 1) […]

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My Secret to Affording BlogWorld NYC

A week ago I was given the opportunity of attending the greatest blog conference of all time aka BlogWorld Expo in NYC. Usually located in the West, I did not know they had a conference in the East. Well, after applying for a press badge and surprisingly getting rejected (I guess I’m not press enough […]

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My Secret to Affording SXSW

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Many of us never heard of SXSW until this year, whether it was from my tweets or other people’s tweets, but one thing you might know is that it sounds hella fun and you would like to attend next year. This was my same reaction a year ago, I saw a couple of bloggers tweeting […]

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SXSW 2011 – There’s Nothing Like Austin Food!

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  If you’re a foodie like me, you probably watch the Travel Channel’s Man vs Food show. I love this show, and I kinda feel bad for saying this. If you’ve never watched the show I suggest you watch it at least once. The show is about the host (Adam Richman) visiting cities throughout the […]

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SXSW 2011 – Influencers Will Inherit the Earth

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Another interesting panel took place on Sunday 3/13/2011, with a wonderful panel which included Venture Beat’s Senior Editor Anthony Ha, Klout’s CEO Joe Fernandez, Hashable’s CEO Mike Javonditte, Director of Digital Marketing at Lippe Taylor Sloanne Berrent. Today’s session on Influencers talked about targeting influencers to reach the masses, and Joe Fernandez talked more about […]