Why I want to attend BarkWorld

I know what you are thinking, but Connie, you are so totally NOT a dog person, why on earth do you want to attend something called "Barkworld"

I have to tell you my first instinct is I so don't..   I am not bipetual - not that there is anything wrong with that - but it isn't for me.. but when I heard a number of the kitty bloggers were going I had a closer look at it.  When I looked at the schedule, and saw that a number of the sessions were geared towards cats I thought how interesting and when I saw the "MeowWorld Breakfast" I was really interested.

Besides, it is also a great opportunity to hang out with other pet bloggers.  Seriously, there is something special about doing that, and I really recommend doing so if you ever thought 'that might be fun'..

Other reasons to attend... taken right from their page.

By attending The Pet Social Media Conference, BarkWorld, you’ll gain insider knowledge on:

•Entrepreneurship for pet professionals
•Home & healthy lifestyle tips for pet parents
•Pet-related mobile apps & gaming
•Non-profit and charity fundraising
•Emerging social media trends, technologies and tools
•How to make the most of a blogger-to-brand relationship
•How to produce your best podcasts and Internet radio shows
•Social media & marketing best practices for businesses
•Programming for our advance users
•Content creation & time management
•and, you’ll get to network with over 300 like-minded social networkers and brands

I mean seriously, doesn't that sound like fun?

I'm blogging about it because right now they are running a contest.  Pruven from 3M and BarkWorld are giving away a trip to BarkWorld.  I can't tell you how much I would love to win!!  If you are reading this, could you comment about how much you'd like me to win too?  ;)

It's Official - Again (and stuff)

Klaatu Barada Nik(cough cough cough)OK then.. I've said the words.. 

Famous words to be said before starting an important journey.. (or in the middle really, and I suppose I'm sorta in the middle of this.. oh wait.. if you've never seen "Army of Darkness" you have NO idea what I'm talking about so I'll just stop here and go on)
I have been officially signed up for the August 14th  Hills Media Tour.. Yes, I feel a little funny about the whole thing but this really is a pretty unique opportunity that I'm really surprised is coming my way.  If anyone else is going (I've been told a few other people, but no real contact info - except that I recognize one of them from their blog) feel free to say hi!  I so hate feeling like the "new girl in school" when I go some place new.  I am way way too much like a cat..

and it is a really good trial run for heading to Blog Paws next year.  (hey, any company out there want to sponsor me for that??)

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I'm guessing if I am ever going to hope to get sponsored I'm going to have to "build the brand" if you will so I'm considering creating a twitter handle for the blog.  I'm curious, when you think of this blog/me/my kitties/the fosters, do you think of me as "KittyBlog" (how I think of it) or "Tails from the Foster Kittens" (really cute title but kind of long and not all that catchy in my mind and TFTFK just seems wrong, TFK?) or just Connie's cats or some other variation?

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I went to check on Fleurp's progress on the Modern Cat contest.  She's currently in 21st place.  So interesting looking at the kitties with the most amount of bids.  #1 has almost 19000 votes.  #2 16000 #3 has 2500.  City the Kitty has only 1500 (City was seen on My Cat From Hell and has healthy online following) 
So I just re-read the rules, and apparently you can vote once ever 12 hours.  I don't remember seeing that before, just that you could vote once from an IP so everyone in an office using one IP address would be counted as just one vote.

It does seem a little pointless to keep plugging for votes at this point.  There is no way my little blog is going to generate enough votes to come even close to the top two at this point, but I wouldn't mind a decent showing for my sweet little piece of joy and love,  and since this is simply a click entry (aka no regisration), I thought if you don't mind...
http://www.moderncat.com/photocontest/cats/2012/06/07/fleurp