Hangin’ With the Cool Chicks
January 13, 2009
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to participate in Chicks Who Click – a Social Media conference focusing on women – up in Boulder, Colorado.
Barbara Jones, Zena Weist, Kit Seeborg
Thanks to the amazing Denise Smith [@deetells] and Gwen Bell [@gwenbell] and the folks at Metzger Associates, I was allowed not only to speak on a panel with some incredible Social Media folks (@tarable & @waynesutton as well as Gwen) but to spend the day hanging out with, collaborating with, and learning from some other amazing women.
I could start listing them all, but then we’d be here all day! Seriously it was this incredible experience. If I start naming any more names – I pretty much have to list them all, because every person who attended (there were 5 guys in that room of nearly 50 women!) added to the experience. The only other name I will call out is Barbara Jones [@BarbaraJones] because she wins my award for “awesomest take-home schwag from any conference ever” for the medals and trophies. I mean seriously – even though I only qualified for a medal as a judge – I totally love it!
As usual, the folks in Boulder who made it out to hang out at the pre-party and post-party were phenomenal and did Colorado proud in showing what an awesome place it is to be in Tech &/or Social Media – even if we had lost more than one important & familiar face to Las Vegas (yeah, so CES, WordCamp LV, and AS West were all kind of overlapping date-wise) we still had a fabulous contingent of the local community come out and hang with us!
What I learned was something I have been hearing for awhile from my friend Liz Strauss [@lizstrauss]- a small conference of really amazing people can do incredible work together and bond really well. It’s made me even more determined to get to SOBCon 2009 this year. Because I really loved that feeling of working in small groups with smart people to make our community a better place.
I hope to see you there – or next year at Chicks Who Click 2010 – or someplace down the road. Because while blogging and twittering and hanging with all of you online is good? Hanging out with you all in person would be even more fun!
I know – because I just spent my whole weekend with some really awesome folks – just go check the Flickr photos if you don’t believe me. (But don’t be surprised if I often look like I’m spitting out marbles – I’m not terribly photogenic – really, just ask anyone who tried to take my picture this weekend!)
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