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I attended my first 341 Studios Fresh Intelligence Roundtable Series almost exactly a year ago–late September 2010. I was so knocked out by the power of that event, I wrote a gushing love letter blog post for all to see. Not surprisingly, the women at 341 were among the first to read it. We’d had a mutual admiration thing going on prior to that, but something about my post that day put a punctuation mark on our growing relationship.
That’s the power of the blog.
I’ve attended many of their roundtables, learned from each one, and continued to enjoy our mutually beneficial relationship.
Today I sit here at another event in their series, only this time, I’M the expert. Let me qualify that. I’m on their panel as an example of a successful blogger–who is open to going from good to great.
With brilliant suggestions from social media expert Rhonda Hurwitz you’ll now begin to see a more focused and strategic use of keywords in my postings. It won’t interfere with the content, I promise. Mary Callahan of 341 illustrated the back-end features of sites like WordPress.com, which is the one I use.
Once again, Michele Graham hosted the roundtable and kept the questions and discussion flowing. The four of us are in the photo above.
I’d love to hear your suggestions, too, for going from good to great. What would you like to see more of?
I just left my Remarkable Women’s Network event, checked my BlackBerry and saw the NYTimes news alert that Steve Jobs had passed away. My heart did a little dive and my stomach feels jittery. I’m sad.
An era has ended. We have lost a major contributor to life as we know it. Wow, what a loss.
I rely heavily on Scarlett De Bease of Scarlett New York for advice on my wardrobe. She’s created a look-book for me, which means that every time I need to go out in public and look presentable, I have a photographic album of outfits Scarlett has assembled for me to choose from. My bodily flaws are camouflaged by the shapes and accessories she helps me purchase and coordinate.
Naturally, any magazine would want to feature Scarlett’s expertise, not to mention her great good looks. In fact, she was recently contacted by O Magazine (Oprah’s rag for those of you who may not recognize it by name), to be in a makeover shoot for an upcoming issue. Scarlett had emailed me that she had a noteworthy interaction that might be of interest to the women I serve. Here’s the email invitation she received inviting her to be photographed for a spread on fashion makeovers:
Our team of fashion experts are here to help! Tell us about your “problem area” (not limited to the ones listed above [sic arms belly, neck, bust] and we’ll teach you how to dress in a way that will make you (and everyone else) forget all about it!
To which Scarlett replied (thank you, Scarlett, for letting me share your response verbatim for interested readers):
Thank you so much for contacting me, and I am so sorry to say that as much as I REALLY want to be in the magazine, I cannot participate in this feature as it is my specialty to show my clients how to solve the very same issue your feature is all about and it would discredit my work if I were a model for this particular story.
I know you are working hard tonight and I am truly sorry I cannot be a part of tomorrow’s casting. I do hope you will continue to keep me in your files for future features as, naturally, I would be delighted to be included.
Scarlett was relieved and pleased to receive an acknowledgment (often producers do not respond at all) saying “I totally understand” with a winking emoticon after the sentence.
I always love to hear, see or read what goes on behind the curtain. Thanks to Scarlett for sharing this story with all of us.
