BarkWorld Expo

This past weekend, the BlogRollers had an amazing time with their Anipals at BarkWorld Expo.

Held in Atlantic Station, Dennis Quashie from Events by Canvas did an amazing job organizing the first conference dedicated to teaching pet lovers how to better use social media to network and collaborate with other pet parents, businesses and all things pet!

The greatest part of the conference was seeing people come together from all different corners of the world. Countries like Israel, Canada, UK and many more were represented. And of course, native Atlantans were a minority there with expo filled with people from across our country.

As someone relatively new to the “social media business,” I (InternSunny) was definitely surprised to see the impact social media has on our world today. As someone who grew up with this technology (MySpace came out when I was 17), I knew that Facebook and Twitter were good tools, but I never realized just HOW impactful they’d become.

I also didn’t realize how committed and how large the pet community was. The need for a BarkWorld Expo became quite evident and how we didn’t think of it sooner was astonishing! All these pet business, pet parents, pet lovers and no real platform or way to connect this community together? How could this be?!?

As an outsider looking into the pet community, I certainly learned A LOT. Not just about social media, but also the mentality that goes behind it. As it was put to me, most people don’t think others care about what we are doing or where we’re going, but in fact, if it relates back to what others are doing, people want to know our opinions. If we have a bad experience with a certain product or place, the consumers voice makes an invaluable difference.

Overall, it was a wonderful experience. Hats off to Denise for organizing such a great and much needed event. I, for one, am definitely looking forward to seeing all my favorite canines and felines friends for next years BarkWorld Expo.

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On the Road Again: The ChatterBox Does Social Good with #OnStarServes

In true "BlogRollers" style, our girl ChatterBox Christie is hitting the road on a cross-country "Good Samaritan" road trip to the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in San Diego courtesy of OnStar. OnStar has selected Christie along with five other journalists to drive in fully equipped Buick Enclaves from Atlanta to San Diego stopping in various cities along the way doing some good deeds along the way. Among the projects they will participate in are volunteering at an Alabama food bank, rebuilding homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, and helping women with Autism who run a community farm come up with unique ideas to sell their produce in local markets.

You can follow The ChatterBox's amazing adventure with her new friends on Twitter using the hashtag #OnStarServes

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It's Been A Long Time, We Shouldn't Have Left You...

We'd like to apologize for being absent from the Blogosphere for a few weeks.  Well, you know we've been around individually, but we haven't been "good blog buddies" lately leaving you hanging for so long.  Totally not our intention as you know how we do...We ARE planning our next adventures and well...that just doesn't leave us much time to blog like we should.  We're sure you understand... you are a forgiving group and we appreciate that, still...we don't like to slack off...we want to do better :)

So bear with us for a little while longer as we work to quickly implement the many changes we are diligently working on!  As always, we appreciate you rollin' with us and we'll be back in full swing very soon!

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