Yesterday was a great day. It started out like any other day…watching the Today Show and tweeting from my Blackberry while sipping my coffee in bed. What could be better?
Then I had the following correspondence with @JeffPulver:
“Hmm…”, I thought, “That’s an interesting response.” And on I tweeted.
A few minutes later, I received a direct message from Jeff Pulver:
Immediately, my heart, and perhaps my stomach, did flip flops. For those of you not on twitter – which is probably the majority of you – let me try to explain the novelty of this conference. The conference’s official name is the “140 Characters Conference: Exploring the State on Now” and explores how the real-time web has changed our lives – for the better;)
If you don’t think it has changed for the better, stop reading now.
Amazing people that I absolutely adore will be speaking at this conference. Ann Curry, Cory Booker, and Deepak Chopra are some of the names you might recognize. If you don’t, you might want to take a peek. They are changing the world for the better every day. But there are a ton of other speakers who are also changing the world who will be there.
There is Andy Dixon, “an ex-con with convictions”, who founded YouthTurns, an organization that works with high-risk children of parents in prison to break the cycle of generational incarceration.
Mark Horvath, a blogger, founder of invisiblepeople.tv and overall advocate for the homeless, will be there.
My son’s favorite designer, Marc Ecko, is attending and speaking. (No, I have not mentioned that to him…yet.)
Even cooler, there is a panel entitled The Lupus Ladies of Twitter which will be moderated by Amanda Greene, aka @LAlupuslady. For me, this is perhaps the most interesting session because my best friend, Michelle Campbell Golladay, initially used twitter as a support system when her son, Mason, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes AND because my other best friend, Veronica Rahim, was recently diagnosed with lupus – and I think she could use twitter as a support system and resource.
The entire conference is jam packed with creative, energetic, full of life people. As extraverted as I am, I have a feeling I am going to be exhausted after two days with these amazing people.
Back to my story…
Our twitter conversation continues (read from the bottom to the top):
To make a long story short, I registered for the conference and Jeff Pulver booked my airfare! Next Tuesday, I will have the incredible opportunity to meet him and participate in the #140confNYC2011!
Now kids…this may seem like it “just happened” but I prefer to think that things happen for a reason. Stay tuned for more!
