And now it’s time to say goodbye…..

Looking forward to going down to FL this weekend for the Delray Beach ITC. Since I was laid-off from my job today (well since it is after 12am it was yesterday) I am going to reconnect with some former freelance clients that I worked with a while back and see if I can freelance my PR expertise.

I would love to explore my opportunities in other fields other then PR and events. Maybe go into broadcast or production, perhaps casting or working on a TV Show set or get back into film festival mode. I helped gain national and regional coverage for clients and my pr, media and of course social media skills over the years have developed as a young professional but I think my abilities to coordinate and facilitate event logistics effectively has been in my nature since I was a kid. I did have my first successful garage sale at 11 and my babysitting club at 13 was quite the club on the block.

My resume is updated and ready for your viewing pleasure. I am willing to travel, work in any setting and want to try it all while I am still young… PR, Media Relations, Events, TV, Publicist, Producer, etc.

Have you recently lost your job? Tell me about it. How are you dealing? I find my contacts on twitter are helping me out a lot and it has been less than 24 hours. Thank god for those social media skills! I need advice and guidance on this whole unemployment situation! Email me or leave comments. I’m here all day!

MC hammer and my overall recap of the Shorty's

Yes @MCHammer was there at the Shorrty's! I wonder how much he got paid to come or if he just wanted to come?? But all in all he was pretty cool and no, there was no Running-Man solo performance! The awards as @JamesBedell stated in the "The Scene at the Shorty Twitter Awards: Chatter" article in the NY Times, “Twitter is about community, not individual greatness. The awards were a little weird”. I had fun becuase I was there with some good people who I talk to every day. We all made fun of the fact that we were actually there. The spaceman (@matman) was interesting and I mentioned it once or twice that I felt like I was at ComicCon or a Starwars Convention (which I have never been to either of because of obvious reasons) with the little twitter buzzes all around me discussing which doornknob handle was right for a project, or what is the velocity of the Earth. The awards in itself were yes comical but a little unorganized at the begining, and def "weird".

I loved the statement from the feed that said "Just think, in 5 years this’ll be the Honda/Snapple Shorty Awards and the video will be obscured by a giant Chili’s banner". We also got a nice live video feed from Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone. He gave us all a little shout out and the crowd laughed.

I would rather create my own TweetUp with my own little tight knit click of twitterers (@GinaLaGuardia, @JamesBedell, and @TheWriteWoman) instead of watching other twitterers (that I don't follow) get awards for how much time they dedicate to twitter during the day/night and how many followers they have, who voted for them! Sorry @Gregory... good job on the event though, it ultimately was a success, had a great turn out and exceptional for networking and mingling with fellow twits!!!

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Shaq for about 1 tweet!

Was his speech via video 140 characters? I think it was! The big ticket items last night was Host: CNN anchor Rick Sanchez @ricksanchezcnn Special appearances: Shaquille O'Neal @THE_REAL_SHAQ (via video) & MC Hammer @MCHammer
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Lighting was terrible!

Thanks to the BB camera! I had a flash but it was not so good in this lighting! Well @JamesBedell said it was better in this corner... but what does he know about lighting anyway! :)
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Live feed at Shortys

My name was just up on the big sceen live feed. @GinaLaguardia, @TheWriteWoman, and @JamesBedell and I (@aadler1204) were all sending our 140 character tweets to #shorty to get up on the big screen... a few of them didn't make it but some of them did. And when they did we all cheered! Kind of a thrill but yet still kinda brought our "coolness points" down quite a bit. Hey at least we were not dressed up as spacemen about to leave on a mission to mars or anything! Oh man I wish I took a picture of that!
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Start time at the Shorty's is 7:30pm

They are not letting people in until 7:30 so I am walking around Brooklyn and its awesome! I remember this scene from law and order, sex and the city, how to loose a guy in 10 days and numerous othe NY based films and shows! They didn't let us in until about 8pm... for some reason there was one line and then when we got to the door... the "bouncer-esque" guy told us we were not VIP's so we had to wait on another line. I think it was a little un-necessary to do this and I think a little unorganized at this point!
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Inside it was unique. Metal bridges lead you to the stage above a black moat. The upstairs looked fun but that was only for the "VIP's" which I was not!

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On my way from the F

I find it is quite difficult to walk in 4 inch heel boots on cobbelstone! Clearly no one told me that Brooklyn consisted of all cobblestone! It is pretty though! The area is nice and it looks like it once was industrial and now they have added restaurants and an art space (Galapagos)!
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The other side of the Brooklyn bridge

Ill be posting updates from The Shorty Awards at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn! Stay tuned...
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Brooklyn bridge!

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