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Well, so I thought. It was T minus 5 days before the Blogher Conference. The weekend came and went and I didn’t think about my drive until the following Monday (3 days before the conference.) I searched high and low for my drive , in my bags, in my clothes, at my client’s workplace and and my place. I went to my Gram’s and back and my building super asked me if I lost a computer disk. I was so relieved since all my presentation materials were on this drive. The first thing I did was to back up my USB drive to my web hosting company. Then I opened up a Mozy account. The lesson here, backup often!

Now its your turn, Tell me your technology horror story, by commenting to this post. The most horrific story will won win a 128MB drive coutesy of BlogHer and AOL Body, which will contain an ebook copy of Get More Business – The Women’s eMarketing Guide to Promote Your Products and Services on the Internet.

Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home wrote her take on the Self-Promotion and Branding Session at BlogHer. She had some interesting points on the conversation.

I decided to start twittering to make it easier to keep you all updated as to what’s going on with me and the BlogHer conference. I have already came up with new ideas and the first session hasn’t event started yet. Look for the blue box in the right of the blog to keep up with me.

Even though I work from home a majority of the time, there are instances when I must commute for business, family, or personal obligations. I have came up with a list of how to make the most out of any transit commute.

1. Plan your strategy for a current or upcoming project;


2. Read a publication of choice (book, magazine or newspaper);


3. Listen to an audiobook;


4. Monologue (or mono storming) ideas and jot them down in a notebook;


5. Write your next article;


6. Write your next blog post (Ahem…)


7. Review past checklists and cross out completed tasks.

With these tips, one can put these to action when you are waiting in any scenario.

I am scheduled to appear Friday on July 20, 2007, at 5 pm EDT/4pm CDT/3MDT/2pm PDT, I will be joining fellow speakers of the Entrepreneurs Virtual Convention on the radio. For more information visit http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Biz_Connector.

For those of you who were around last September, I did an post about how I cleaned up my place and put my wares online in Take the Yard Sale Online. In this edition, I’m going to amend my position with a site I had found out about through a fellow Webgrrls member, Freecycle.

I decided to post my desk organizers on a Friday, since I no longer used them. Within the hour, I had a handful of people who were interested. By Saturday afternoon, my organizers went to a non-profit.

Now I am taking the “next STEPH” and am upgrading to a new e-mail provider, Feedblitz. In this world of web 2.0, it is important to give you, the subscriber, a choice of how you would like to receive information from me. Feedblitz enables you to either subscribe by , , or by email.

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Once again thank you, and I look forward to you taking the “next STEPH” with me.

Nina Burokas, Penelope Trunk and I (Stephanie Cockerl) will be speaking on panel entitled Self- Branding and Self-Promotion at BlogHer ‘07 a World of Difference in Chicago. We will be discussing how to put your name and your blog out there. For more info about BlogHer and to register, go to the BlogHer website.

Read the Press Release here.

I re-applied for a library card online this past Thursday because my good friend urged me to check out a book instead of doing my usual Amazon thing. I wasn’t expecting the card until next month because they said it may take 30 days to receive. However, by today (Saturday) the new card was already in my mailbox. That’s what I call speedy.

If you are a small business and you don’t have a blog and/or a weblog), you could be missing out on some significant organic /natural search engine visibility and traffic.

In honor of me (Stephanie M. Cockerl) speaking at BlogHer, I am offering a Summer Blogging Special for 25% off the regular set-up price.

I will build and customize your blog to fit your existing website. To view examples of custom made blogs, click here.

Be sure to mention BLOGHER when inquiring to qualify for the discount. Offer good until September 4, 2007.