My Kickstarter.com fundraiser for my Sisterhood the Blog book project is almost a month old. To date, I have raised $547 with the support of 17 donors and many people who have used Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, web sites, blogs, and email to share information about my efforts.
Tomorrow, I celebrate a full month of fundraising and a re-launch of my fundraising campaign. On October 23, I will have 62 days to raise $1,053 to meet my overall goal of $1,600. The money will be used for my self-publishing and mailing fees. Click on the link to learn how you can help me reach my $1,053 goal: http://kck.st/avHVlu. Thank you for your support! Keep shining!
Many thanks to my newest donors LaShanda Henry, Mitchell Abdullah, and R. Dudley! Many blessing to all of my donors for their generosity. See the list below.
I launched #STB10 #DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays on Twitter last week. I had no idea my social TV experiment for my next book Sisterhood the Blog would be embraced by so many women in social media. Check out the Twitter feed from the October 13th and 20th parties below. The October 20th party is still going strong today!
My favorite tweets were from the two ladies below.
#digitalsisterhood rocks..I’ve met some awesome sistas thru the digital world who have proven to be better friends than the “real life” ones 5 minutes ago via twidroid
It’s hard to believe that Blogalicious 2010 was last week. I am still on my Blogalicious and digital sisterhood high! So I thought I would share a recap of what happened during Day #2. See below.
Me and Xina Eiland before yoga on the beach at Blogalicious
I started Day#2 of Blogalicious with yoga on the beach. My sistalove Takeyah Young, founder of Core Connection Lifestyle, taught a juicy class on Miami Beach. Xina and I had a great time. Check out the photos from the class below.
Me before yoga class at BlogaliciousBlogalicious ladies practicing yoga.Takeya Young, founder of Core Connection Lifestyle, teaching yoga at BlogaliciousShannon Nash and Xina Eiland
Before the morning sessions began, I chatted with Shannon Nash, a Blogalicious 2010 speaker, and Xina. I met Shannon last year at Blogalicious 2009. She is an amazing woman and speaker! The morning sessions included a great six-word memoir networking exercise. I love love love six-word memoirs. I created two.
personal six-word memoir to describe myself – Michigan. DC. Esq. Author. Artist. Yogini.
Blogalicious six-word memoir – digital sisterhood. community. connection. collaboration. commerce. (will blog about this one later this weekend)
I was inspired by James Andrews’ keynote presentation on the relationship between social media and television. Check out the video of his presentation below (33 min – worth it!). James’ presentation convinced me to launch #STB10 #DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays on Twitter this week. Click here to read the blog post and watch video.
I also used Cinchcast to interview James later in the afternoon. Click here to listen to the interview. He is a very powerful brothalove who loves the same kind of music as me – Eric Roberson and Omar Sosa!
I spent the rest of the morning and afternoon interviewing women in social media about digital sisterhood on Cinchcast (see the audio blog interview links below)! Doing the interviews helped me connect with so many dynamic women in social media. See photos below.
My afternoon also included a visit to the Wine Sisterhood‘s Sassy Suite. What a place to visit! Why? They had a fabulous wine tasting for their Middle Sister wines. FYI – The Wine Sisterhood is one of my favorite social networking sites for women. They have such great information about women and wine! I hung out in the suite with my friends Boni, Rosemarie, Luvvie, Adria, Danica, Toni, and Deidre. I also did a video interview for the Wine Sisterhood. See some of the photos below.
Me and Deidre Mason
Me and Boni Candelario
Rosemarie, Boni and Luvvie
Rosemarie and Boni
My hermana de alma Julie Diaz-Asper took me and our other hermana de alma Kety Esquivel to dinner with her family at Yuca, an amazing Cuban restaurant on Lincoln Road. After dinner, we walked back to the Ritz with Julie and her daughters to attend the Blogalicious Beauty Bash. We had so much with So In Style Barbie and dancing to the music of DJ James Andrews (yes he is a DJ too!).
Me with my Afro-Cuban Barbie - Kara Magdalena (I named her Magdalena and gave her an Afro-Cuban identity)
As you can see Day #2 of Blogalicious was blog-tastic! Stop by later this weekend for Day#3 recap and other Blogalicious blogs.
I have some great news. I have received $446 towards my $500 Kickstarter.com fundraiser for my Sisterhood the Blog Book Project. WOW! I am so grateful to the people who have made donations and shared information about my efforts with their networks by word of mouth and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, and other social networking sites. Many blessings to everyone!
Shout outs of gratitude to my 15 Kickstarter.com donors! See the names below.
Click on the link to learn more about my Sisterhood the Blog book project fundraiser and feel free to make a donation of $1-$25: http://kck.st/avHVlu.
Thank you in advance for your support! Enjoy your weekend!
On the last day of Blogalicious 2010, I recorded a video about my 10/13 Twitter launch of #STB10 #DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays. Click on the link to watch the video: http://vimeo.com/15741180.
#STB10 #DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays will give women in social media a weekly opportunity to build and strengthen their communities. Each week women will be encouraged to celebrate and promote their digital sisters by using the #FF (Friday Follow) format to list their digital sisters’ Twitter IDs. Women will also be encouraged to tweet about their digital sisters’ businesses, wisdom, creativity, blogs, Facebook pages, causes, videos, web sites, etc.
#STB10 is a hashtag that refers to Sisterhood the Blog 2010. I developed it to track my Twitter conversations, DC-based focus groups, and online radio shows about her Sisterhood the Blog book project. Sisterhood the Blog is a memoir about my Internet experiences from 1986 to 2011. I include how women on the Internet have influenced and inspired my life. I am using the information collected on Twitter as research for my book project. Click here to learn about the book project and Kickstarter fundraiser: kck.st/avHVlu.
Remember to use the #STB10 and #DigitalSisterhood hashtags on October 13 and every Wednesday thereafter.
Follow me on Twitter to track all of the great #STB10 #DigitalSisterhood sharing on Wednesdays: http://twitter.com/anandaleeke.
One of my favorite Blogalicious 2010 moments was watching CNN journalist Soledad O’Brien use Skype to share her thoughts with conference attendees during the October 10th morning session. Very powerful and funny at times. Click on link to watch the video: http://vimeo.com/15739893.
Blogalicious 2010 was AMAZING! 275 people registered to attend the three-day weekend conference held on October 8 to October 10 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Miami Beach. Yes it was on the beach and the weather was YUMMY! Check me out chill-axing in the lobby of the Ritz (see photo below)! It was relaxing, spa-like, luxurious, and beautiful all day and night long! The Ritz staff was great! I could actually live there! Does it show that I am a Ritz fan and aficionado?
I arrived in Miami on October 7. My flight was a late one. Mis hermanas de alma (soul sisters) Xina Eiland and Kety Esquivel picked me up from the Miami International Airport. The first night Xina and I stayed in the Marriott. We had a free room due to her Marriott points. It had an ocean view. So we slept with the terrace sliding door open to get the Miami Beach energy and ocean sounds all night long. It was juicy and relaxing. The next morning Xina and I got up really early and checked into the Ritz before the first general session of Blogalicious began.
Me and Xina at Blogalicious PM reception on 10/8 - spent afternoon at pool chill-axing!
Mi hermana Kety Esquivel
While sitting in the lobby waiting for the registration desk to open, I used Cinchcast to give a pre-conference audio blog update. Click on link to listen: http://www.cinchcast.com/anandaleeke/99926. After I finished my audio blog I met one of my favorite bloggers Onica, founder of Europhoria Luv. We chatted for a few minutes before I asked her to do an interview about her blog, why she came to Blogalicious, and her definition of digital sisterhood. Click on link to listen: http://www.cinchcast.com/anandaleeke/99929.
Me and Onica
Before the general session began I met one of my favorite Twitter digital sisters Jewel of The Tiny Jewel Box. We hit it off immediately and ended up sitting at the same table with Xina during breakfast. During our breakfast conversation, I learned Jewel is a DC native with an amazing sense of humor and style! Jewel allowed me to interview her about her blog and digital sisterhood. Click on link to listen to Jewel’s interview: http://www.cinchcast.com/anandaleeke/99939.
Me and Jewel, founder of The Tiny Jewel Box
I thoroughly enjoyed the morning sessions on women of color in marketing, networking, and Latinas in social media. The open-mic lunch that Xina and I co-moderated was soulful and filled with digital sisterhood love. Click on link to listen to my audio blog update: http://www.cinchcast.com/anandaleeke/99985.
The first day of Blogalicious was really special because I connected with new friends and reconnected with old friends. See the photos below.
Me and Pam Perry
Me, Carrie, and Monica
Justice Fergie, co-founder of Blogalicious
Justice Ny, co-founder of Blogalicious
Me and Boni
Me and Kimberly, author of The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy and The Mocha Manual to Turning Your Passion into Profit
Xina and I headed to the pool after lunch and chilled out in the warm Miami sun for a few hours. We made it to the evening reception at the Ritz’s beach club. That was a lot of fun! During the reception, Ronnie and Lamar Tyler of BlackandMarried.com interviewed me for their Be Blogalicious documentary. I’m looking forward to seeing the film.
Xina loves Miami and has been many times. So she suggested we walk down the famous Lincoln Road for dinner at Sushi Siam. Yummy yummy yummy! See the photo below.
Me and Xina at Sushi Siam
I ended the evening at Kindred Family Soul’s concert and the Parranda! party. The first day of Blogalicious 2010 was a bloggy blast! Come back later this week for more posts on my Blogalicious 2010 adventures.
I am happy to report I have received $216 in pledges from 12 supporters for my Kickstarter.com Sisterhood the Blog book fundraising project this week. My goal is to raise $500 by December 23. This fundraising project represents the first phase in my Sisterhood the Blog book fundraising efforts. My overall goal is to raise $1,600 by August 31, 2011, to cover the cost of my iUniverse, Inc. publishing fees.
Many thanks to my 12 supporters (see list below) and everyone who has spread the word about myfundraising project. Click here to make a $1-$25 pledge to my fundraising project: http://kck.st/avHVlu.
I honored National Hispanic Heritage Month on October 5 with a conversation about Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) and the Latina Bloguera Survey on my BlogTalkRadio show – Blogatique with Ananda Leeke. My guests were Elianne Ramos, LATISM Vice-Chair, Communications and PR, and Julie Diaz Asper, LATISM Chief Research Officer. Elianne and Julie are mis hermanas de alma (soul sistas!). We met during LATISM’s DC conference in December 2009. We have reconnected at DC events and BlogHer in NYC. Click here to listen to the show (1 hour): http://www.blogtalkradio.com/anandaleeke/2010/10/06/blogatique-with-ananda-leeke-people-passions-polit.
It’s been a busy and juicy week for me. My focus has been on women in social media. Monday night was fantastic because I hosted Sisterhood the Blog Radio’s Talkshoe.com show on how women marry their social justice, social entrepreneurial, and/or nonprofit work with social media. I was joined by a powerful group of nonprofit and social justice digital divas. They included:
Aisha Brown, founder of Global Awareness Project (GAP) Consulting, an international social justice consultancy advocating for the political, social, and economic empowerment of people of color – http://www.globalawarenesspc.com and http://twitter.com/gapconsulting;
Click here to listen to the show (1 hour): http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/42015. Be sure to look for the October 4th audio recording in the Past Episodes archives.
Ananda Leeke 