Because many of you working mothers have asked me about my love of social media,  I wanted to send out a quick post about Blog World & New Media Expo.

Some of you might remember that last year I attended Blog World Expo.  If you are at all interested in learning about how social media strategy can help your businesses at warp speed, then this is the conference for you.  It is the essence of drinking from the firehose.

Ok, I admit it. I’m crazy in love with Twitter. Just like my historical attractions to men, this is happening with Twitter because I’m learning things I never even conceived. My relationship with Twitter started about six months ago when we casually started seeing each other. I signed up for a twitter account and then installed the Twitter application on my facebook account. By doing this, I could tweet and my updates would show up in Twitter and on my Facebook page as “status updates”. So efficient which really does it for me. I thought Twitter and I knew each other pretty well. But little did I know, our relationship, analogous to relationships with men, was to grow in layers.

I just returned from an 18 day trip last night. My last stop was Blog World Expo ‘08 in Las Vegas. I went to the conference to enhance my understanding of the New Media industry and to learn how to better serve you, my readers, as a writer/blogger. Little did I know of the almost limitless benefits that this little four day trip would bring me. I’m still digesting everything I learned over the past few days and I know I will be for quite some time. However, the one gem of the conference is this:

I am sitting here in my dad’s kitchen in Florida thinking how I should be writing a post for my blog. Sorry guys, it’s been a few days but I’ve been consumed with family obligations. I want coffee but have no time for driving to Starbucks. Too many things to get done today and not enough time (ahh, the old familiar motto of the Working Mother rears it’s head again…but today for a different reason). My dad has been in the hospital since 9/11 and may be coming home today or tomorrow. I leave early tomorrow morning for Blog World Expo in Las Vegas so today I want to do everything I can to spend every minute with my Dad and to prepare him for his homecoming. I’m dressed for the gym, but am changing my mind, thinking my time is better invested in Dad things today.