Change Can Be Inspirational
Spent last week in Miami speaking at The Women’s Congress conference. The Women’s Congress is a 2-year old organization with a mission to bring small business owners and corporate executives together for mutual learning. I knew the conference would be great. What I didn’t know was the day would be inspired by change. My thanks to Rebecca Weeks, Director of Business Development, Real Girls Media Network, Inc. for the invitation to moderate the panel on Web 2.0. In addition to Rebecca our session included two other savvy divas - Anne Murray, Senior Director of Interactive Marketing, Southwest Airlines and Virginia Simmons, Online Communications Manager, The ONE Campaign. Sidebar: Biz Blog Profile interviews coming soon. Love that networking online and off digital too! Companies are tightening their training and travel purse strings and one of the first to feel the pinch is professional development conferences. Moments before our panel we changed direction. We decided to merge the Web 2.0 and social media sessions. So .. we tossed out the preplanned Powerpoints and the agendas. We pulled chairs into a big Conversation Circle and in true bloggy style, and similar to what I had done at the Healthcare Summit last fall, we trusted in our audience to tell us what they wanted to know. And they, of course did! Again, the feedback we got was “Best session I attended.” “I learned so much.” I must admit that having successfully gone down this road before I was pretty comfortable with the formate and… Continue to read more…
