Blogging is everywhere, from the mom blogs to business blogs - it is one of the best strategies to promote your brand on line. Making social networking work for you consists of a few main elements. When you incorporate them into your overall marketing plan, traffic to your blog increases. 

Come join us on August 11, and listen to our panel of blogging experts as we explore using social media to promote your content, engage with your readers, and spread your message.  

We have a superstar panel:

Scary Mommy: Jill is a domestic satirist whose candor and wit about the underbelly of marriage and parenting has brought Erma Bombeck-style insights to a new generation of women. Her personal blog, which averages over 500,000 page views a month, recounts with humor and humility the travails of parenthood. It has been recognized with numerous blogging awards, including lucky number 13 on Babble’s “Best Mom Blogger” list. Her Scary Mommy Society provides a forum for other “scary mommies,” blogging newcomers, and smart people with something important to say to share their stories in a community setting. Currently, it has an 8 week waiting list. Jill’s Twitter feed, is number five on Babble’s list of “Top 50 Twitter Moms” and a recommended personality by Twitter itself. Jill’s take on parenting has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, CNN, Redbook, and Ms. Magazine, and she was a keynote speaker at BlogHer in 2010. Jill writes a weekly column The Countdown with Scary Mommy on CafeMom’s The Stir, and she counsels large companies and independent small business owners on social media strategy.

Scott Paley- Scott Paley is the Managing Partner at Abstract Edge, a creative boutique agency that has launched new brands for Clairol and Vera Wang, inspired a million moms to march on Washington, assisted American Idol’s fight against malaria, and helped increase web traffic so successfully for Discover Magazine that it was recently acquired. He frequently blogs here.

Extreme Parenthood: Sunday Stilwell is the frazzled mom behind the screaming banshee mask. He blog, Adventures in Extreme Parenthood, is where she tells the tales of raising 2 boys on the severe end of the autism spectrum while attempting to laugh and blog about it. She began blogging in the winter of 2008 as a way of coping with life as a newly separated woman, navigating a divorce, working full time, and the boys' school and therapy schedules.

Rachael King is a 20-something social media professional in Washington, DC. Her blog, The Southified Masshole, has been going strong since she was so bored at work one day she started it in 2007. Since then, it's grown to 4k subscribers via RSS, GFC and Facebook, and more importantly, has become a community of e-friends she can't imagine living without, many of whom have become IRL besties. She also rocks out on Tumblr (warning: contains excessive cat pictures) and her main social media squeeze,Twitter. Her blog also landed her a top-20 spot in MTV's search for a Twitter Jockey competition last summer, which sounds cool but was actually a huge pain in the ass. She also somehow managed to leverage her years of social media obsession into a gig teaching the National Guard states and territories how to use the interwebs as a recruitment tool, which is EVERY bit as cool as it sounds. She hates leggings as pants and bad tippers, unabashedly adores karaoke and french fries of all shapes and sizes, and would love to get a drink while snarkily people-watching with you.

We will be hosting this event at Gramophone on Thursday, August 11. We will have a panel from 3:30 to 5, and a happy hour with light refreshements from 5- 6:30. (Your ticket to the event includes two drink tickets). 

Gramophone has some great giveaways for you! Don't miss out on this blogging event!

Directions to Gramophone's Timonium location:

• 695 to Route 83 North. Exit 16 to Timonium Road.
• At the 2nd light, make a Right onto Aylesbury Road
• Drive .6 mile on Aylesbury Road
• Gramophone will be on your Left
• End: 4 West Aylesbury Road; Timonium, MD 21093

About Gramophone:

Gramophone specializes in custom home entertainment technology that will simply make the way you live better than you ever imagined possible.  Gramophone is one of the nation's most respected & preeminent installer of: home theaters media rooms custom whole-house audio/video systems smart home automation & control systems telecommunication & networking systems for homes and businesses. We offer expert sales, design & installation in both new construction & existing residences. From basic media centers to whole-home automation and integration, we take pride in our ability to accommodate every customer's dreams.