Me, Nichelle Gainer and Nichelle Pace of Stylemom.net at a 140 conference party at Touch.
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SXSW Bound
Leaving on a flight tmro to go to Austin for South By
Friday: conversing at Blacks in Tech Panel at The Carver Museum
Saturday: “singing” at Cogoake
Sunday: hosting the Cupcake Social 2.0
Monday: talking at Finance 2.0 Panel
Tuesday: supporting my fellow food bloggers at Food Blogging Panel
What’s New? A Blog And A Blurb
I started a new blog this week, I can Bring Home The Bacon. It’s for women entrepreneurs, women in social media, women in tech, etc.
I am going to be quoted in an upcoming issue of Black Enterprise magazine. Yay!
Cupcakes Take the Cake Immortalized
I love Cupcakes Take the Cake, originally uploaded by cakespy.
Oh I so love this. Jessie Oleson from Cake Spy drew this lovely picture of us cupcake bloggers as an early 4th anniversary present. The Cupcakes Take The Cake anniversary party will Thursday, December 4 at White Rabbit. There will be raffle prizes and cupcakes!
The Week In Links Ending Friday, November 14
Monday: Birthday Party for RKB at Ethiopian Restaurant, Awash. There were cupcakes, too.
Tuesday: New York Tech Meetup at IAC. Check out Glue and MixedInk.
Wednesday: Brooklyn Hilary’s birthday/going away party, CITY magazine event and Red Cup Tweetup at Starbucks.
Thursday: Media Meshing.
Tonight: Sex Blogger Calendar Party and Matt’s Birthday party.
Favorite expression (via Ugly Betty) “You’re a snow day”.
Baked Book Party and FreshDirect Event
Nato, Matt, Niche and RKB, originally uploaded by nichellest.
Tonight, I went to the book party for Baked at PowerHouse Arena in DUMBO. Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, the owners of Baked in Red Hook, have written their first cookbook, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking, which is full of delicious recipes for cakes, brownies, whoopie pies and cupcakes. The Chocolate Malted cupcakes pictured above are so yummy!
Before going to the Baked event, I stopped by the FreshDirect event at Union Square Wine and Spirits. The event was to promote the FreshDirect’s new online wine store partnership With USQ Wine Store. There was cheese and wine pairings, sake with edamame, a few Spanish wines and a really spicy ginger cocktail made with Canton. I especially liked the Llopart Rose Brut Cava so I may get some for the holidays since they will be here soon. At the event, I met a couple of writers from Crain’s, a very cool former model who is a foodie, and actress Robin Mattson who played Heather on General Hospital back in the day. Plus, I talked to fellow foodbuzz blogger Miss Ginsu and the very nice publicists at MWW.
WordCamp New York: How I Spent My Sunday
“We’re taking the “W” back this year” said Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. Despite the fact it was a rainy Sunday, I went to Sun Microsystems office’s near Grand Central to attend Word Camp New York. The room where Word Camp was held packed with people who crossed the wide spectrum of blogging. Some were old skool and there were a few who just started out. There were tech bloggers, non-profit bloggers, corporate bloggers and personal bloggers.
There was a lot of information given out today, so I just note the highlights.
- The next version of WordPress (2.7) will be released in November 2008.
- 2009 will be the Year of Themes
- Buddy Press, social networking plug-in for WordPress blog is coming.
- Aaron Brazell of Technosailor gave a talk about growing your blog. You can check out his presentation, “Making it To The Big Leagues”.
- There was a presentation on Kaltura, an open source video platform.
- Jeremy Clarke of Global Voices gave a presentation on how to protect your site from hacks, and to be efficient by using plug-ins.
I didn’t stay for the end, but I learned a lot in a short amount of time. I also ran into Marshall, Margaret, Jane, Sanford, and Janera.
Odds and Ends
RightRides has selected me to sit on their Board. I am so honored! Please donate to my annual fundraising goal on FirstGiving.
Bloggers Unite! I am going to WordCamp on Sunday, October 5.
Happy Anniversary to the Shifting Careers Blog. Read Marci’s top ten posts over the last year.
Check out Cheryl & Co for ordering Halloween cookies and other sweets.
Cupcakes Take The Cake Bloggers Photo Shoot
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IMG_2795.JPG, originally uploaded by Brooklyn Hilary.
A couple of weeks, the three of us went over to Brooklyn Hilary for a photo shoot. We didn’t have press photos, so I thought it would be a good idea. It was so much fun. We took a lot photos!
See the Flickr Set.
Martha, Cupcakes, and Key Lime Martinis
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Martha Stewart Blogging Show, originally uploaded by nichellest.
Wednesday, I attended the taping of a very special Martha Stewart show. It was an all blogger show and everyone in the audience were bloggers. My Dell laptop battery lasted about 30 minutes so I couldn’t live blog/twitter the whole show, but it was fun. Martha Stewart and HP kindly gave away All-In-One Printers to everyone in the audience. I can’t wait to get mine in a few weeks!
Wednesday evening, Cupcakes Take The Cake had a Cupcake Social at The Delancey. There were so many cupcakes, that I don’t think I can eat any for the next week.
Friday was LikeMind, and after that I met with the founders of SmartyPig. I stopped by the OMMA Expo Hall, and met Barbi from Kontera. In the evening I went to the Montauk Club in Park Slope to celebrate Eric’s birthday. I had two delicious Key Lime Martinis and chatted with friends. Today I feel a little anti-social so I’m staying close to home tonight.