Tag: Unplugged Conference

Ziploc® is coming to #AWBU!

Happy #AWBU week, ladies!  We are so excited to have a SOLD-OUT event full of fantastic women bloggers converging on the Ozark Folk Center this Friday.  If you can’t join us for the event, we hope that you are enjoying updates and picking up some interested tidbits (and making plans to join us next year)!  Don’t fret – we also have other meetups planned throughout the state, so we hope to see all of you in person very soon.

Even in these final days leading up to the event, we still have LOTS of exciting updates for you daily!  For example:

WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE:

Ziploc® VersaGlass™ Containers

AND

Ziploc® Brand Containers

are our newest Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged Conference sponsors!

Why is this exciting for you, dear blogger?  Well, it means that there are some incredible goodies in store for you at the event!  Plus, we know you will be completely hooked on these fabulous Ziploc® products – lucky for you, they are available at your local Walmart ~ aligning perfectly with the charge:  Save Money. Live Better!

We could tell you all about the reasons having Ziploc® involved will be so fun, but we wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise.  Here’s what’s particularly nifty about our two sponsoring Ziploc® brands:

Ziploc® VersaGlass™ Containers allow you to store, heat and to serve—all in one container.  When it comes to preparing meals for you and your family, Ziploc® VersaGlass™ Containers make life easy. These dishwasher-safe containers are made from tempered glass, so you can use them to store food in the fridge or freezer, to heat food in the oven* or microwave, and serve food on the dining room table.

 Ziploc® Brand Containers offer One Press Protection You Can HEAR!™   Ziploc® Brand Containers make it easy to store gifts, household items and food while locking in freshness! You can hear the lid securely close with just one press. When you have a secure seal you know you are keeping food fresh, which saves you money.

Yay!  Please join us in welcoming Ziploc® VersaGlass™ Containers and  Ziploc® Brand Containers aboard as sponsors for the Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged conference this weekend!  Those of you participating in Foodie Friday will get to know these fantastic products extra well, but all our bloggers will leave a bit more knowledgeable about these great options available from Walmart.  Be sure to hop over to our AWBU 2012 Sponsors page to connect with Ziploc® and our other event sponsors online and via social media!

 

These boots are made for walkin’ – to #AWBU!

You are not going to BELIEVE what we have in store for you! You’ve heard us blog and babble about how truly amazing the Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged (#AWBU) conference is, and how we work hard to keep it cost-effective for women across Arkansas to attend. You’ve heard us rant about how the early-bird registration rate is just $135 until July 31, and then it’s still a bargain to attend at $150. Don’t forget: lodging is separate, but we have fab special rates for the Ozark Folk Center cabins (800-264-3655).

Here’s what you HAVEN’T heard: Country Outfitter is a new sponsor of the AWBU conference! And here’s the big news:

Every registered conference attendee is eligible to receive TWO pairs of Country Outfitter boots valued at up to $150 each! One for you, and one as a giveaway for your blog!


Take a minute to go check out all the super cute women’s boots on the Country Outfitter website.  No really, we’ll wait. Go here: Cowgirl Boots. How awesome are they?

Want to see some other Arkansas Women Bloggers (some countrified, some a little less so) sporting their adorable Country Outfitter boots? Check out nwaFoodie’s recent post about Bean2Blog to see pictures of women bloggers just like you from across Arkansas at the home of P. Allen Smith supporting the Arkansas Soybean Board! These are the kinds of amazingly cool things that happen to our bloggers.

So, what do YOU need to do to get in on the Country Outfitter fun?

  1. Be registered for the AWBU conference – and paid in full, please – AND
  2. Email Beth@ArkansasWomenBloggers.com no later than August 15 and commit to the following:
  • You will go to a link (we’ll send it to you) from Country Outfitter and provide your email address.
  • You will write a post (nothing fancy!) on your own blog by August 17 about the AWBU conference sponsored by Country Outfitter and include a special link to their website.
  • You will pin to the Arkansas Women Bloggers “Country Outfitter” board on Pinterest about your favorite pair of Country Outfitter boots (not on Pinterest yet? Great incentive – we’ll have a special post soon to get you started!)
  • You will commit to a follow up review of your boots on your own blog including a giveaway of the second pair (to be shipped by Country Outfitter) and mentioning a special link.
  • Oh, and most importantly: tell us your preferred boot style (up to $150 and “ships in 24hours”) and give us your size!

How easy is that? You get to attend an amazing and inspring conference, spend a relaxing getaway
weekend with great gals and come home with a brand new pair of boots… all for registering for the
event (which you were going to do anyway), writing a couple of blog posts and visiting Pinterest.  We’ll give you all the specific instructions and links after you email your commitment.

Just let us know if we need to pinch you.

See you at the Ozark Folk Center!!

Top Ten Reasons to Attend Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged 2012

by Angie Albright,
author of A Growing Season at www.AGrowingSeason.co

10. Learn new blogging strategies, tech tips, and writing tricks. Discuss at some length and with great earnestness how much correct punctuation and grammar matter on your personal blog.

9. Put a real live person with a Twitter handle! Ever wonder who @DyingForCheesecake or @MysteriousTwitter52 is? You could meet her at #AWBU!

8. Add more blogs to your Google reader or feed burner that you won’t have time to read and will feel guilty about not getting to until the day you read 400 in one sitting and realize all the great stuff you’ve been missing. You also may find out that a close friend or fellow blogger has started a new business/had a baby/gotten married/gotten divorced/got a job/lost a job/published a book/discovered the secret to no-fail merengue. That’s never happened to me; I’m just saying it could happen.

7. Find the peace and quiet you always say you are wanting! Except for the times when you have a bunch of women bloggers together and then all the laughing, giggling, and sipping could get pretty noisy.

6. But seriously. Peace and quiet. Unplugged. Step away from your phone. Unplug those Interwebs. Exhale. Breathe in mountain air. Get a good night’s sleep.

5. See the always humorous, always engaging Lela Davidson as the keynote speaker. This woman has a few things figured out and she is happy to share her secrets. The things she doesn’t have figured out she is happy to ‘fess up to and make you feel better about just being you.

4. Hear women say some of the most inappropriate and ridiculously truthful things you’ve ever heard. And then reply with something equally inappropriate that you can’t believe is coming out of your own mouth. Again, that didn’t happen to me last year at all; I’m just saying it could happen.

3. Awaken the giant blogger within! Just being in the presence of other creators, writers, content generators, mothers, and women in a gorgeous environment will rev your blogger engine and send you home ready to write. You’re sure to get at least one new blog post out of the weekend!

2. Make new friends. Make friendships that already exist even stronger. Establish business and networking relationships that reap benefits throughout the coming years. This did happen last year (well, it’s just the thing I’m willing to cop to) and the relationships over the last year have been fruitful and significant. At the very least, you’ll go home with new people with whom to play Words With Friends.

1. Take your blog to a new level! Seek and you shall find—revamp or redefine your blog’s mission, update the look and feel of your blog, gain new writing and personal.

Learn more about the conference & REGISTER (early bird rate ends on July 30!)

Check out the conference agenda!

Want to learn more?  Follow @ARWomenBloggers and #AWBU on Twitter and register for our Twitter Party on Tuesday, July 24 at 8p CST to interact with other attendees and get the details!