A Blog Workshop for Weddings and Parties

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Ever attend a blog workshop? Blogging is important for me and many of my colleagues.  Most of us work in small businesses, either self-employed or with just a few friends, and we’re often our own sales and marketing departments.

You, too?

These days many businesses are marketing with more and more social media — blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest — and we’re eager to learn the “best practices”.

I’m right in there, so I explore these new media to see how they work, talk with friends and experts, read books & magazines, and regularly attend a blog webinar or a blog workshop.

I’ve always been trying to learn everything quickly and completely.  Early on, back in 2010, I attended a wonderful blog workshop presented by my friend Stacie Tamaki.

She made it one of those days where I realize that the more I learn, the more I see how much more I don’t know yet.

Stacie did a fantastic job of rounding up many important aspects of blogging, that we OUGHT to be aware of, and then “filling in the blanks” clearly and thoroughly for each one — explaining either what it’s all about, how to do it, or where to find out more.

She started with “Why Have a Blog”, progressed through “Traffic and How Search Engines Work”, “Creating Your Blog (including a demonstration)”, and a few other topics, and finally discussed “Blog Etiquette and Legal Issues”.

Nine other Bay Area wedding & event professionals attended — Armando Sarabia, Daniella Degrassi, Fearon DeWeese, John Woods, Katherine Knoller Fernandez, Megan Woods, Naphtalie Squier, Sara Otsuka, and Susan Groves — and I’m REALLY looking forward to their blogs.

This was the first in a series of workshops Stacie called “Newbie Bloggers 101 Seminar”, and I recommend anyone interested should visit her blog and sign up for the next one.

Way back when I attended high school and college, I never intended to become a marketer.  But these days marketing helps me entertain at weddings and parties.  Which is where I really want to go, and marketing with my blog helps me get there.

In fact, in between these weddings and parties I’m either in my office, helping people plan the music for their next celebration,

Or with my family,

Or with my friends and colleagues at a networking event.  Where naturally our conversations include talk about blogging.

Are you a blogger, too?  Some blogging enthusiasts I know seem to “live to blog”, while I’m more in the “blog to live” camp.

How about you?  Where’s the balance?  Which camp are you in?

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