What’s with the Elmo? Sharing my story at #140Conference

I was so thrilled to be a part of this amazing day to unite Twitter followers and share our stories of the private, personal, and political. I took this as an opportunity to explain the Elmos on Twitter as well as tell the amazing heart that lies within those 140 characters. The power of support to make dreams (and dream rooms) come true.

The day was full of laughter, tears and lots of hugs. In fact, the founder of the #140 conference, Jeff Pulver (who has a cousin who works for Sesame!!), insists everyone leave the stage with a hug….this is MY type of guy!

I shared the stage with women and men that I knew, women and men I thought that I knew and amazing people, I can now call friends. It was an amazing day of sharing stories of how Twitter and life in Social Media had impacted each of our lives. In fact, the power in this conference was proven in the fact that several of us (my sweet friend Jody)….yes, even me, were “TRENDING TOPICS” in Canada that day! So cool!

My story is in this video below. Thank you so much to Julia and her team for putting together a totally inspiring day. Thank you to everyone who smiled to me on the stage and gave me the strength to get through it. Not only was I so privileged to be involved the conference in Waterloo, I’ve been asked to go to New York in June, to tell my story at the #140 Conference there….life is full of lovely surprises!