Inspiration

Last week I attended Hispanicize conference. It was a massive event with about 800 attendees, many of them bloggers. I was able to catch up with two bloggers I have had the luck to meet in person at several conferences before, Denisse Icaza of Ahorros Para Mama and Mirna Arce of Ahorros Con Cupones.

Denisse was one of my roommates at Blogher in August, 2010 in my first blogging conference I ever attended. It was fun to spend a great deal of time getting to know her beautiful, sweet spirit and to learn everything she was doing with her blog.

En Español: Amigas Blogueras, Amigas de Corazon

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I took these pictures today at the beach while plopped on a lounge chair soaking in the glimmers of sunshine on this cloudy day. I saw the images, taken less than 10 minutes apart,  as a symbol of how life is always changing and evolving.

I was so happy to be there today since it has been over seven months that I go to the place that gives me peace and inspiration. When I started Mi Caminar, I was inspired by the sounds of the ocean and the tranquility it gave me. It was my form of therapy amidst many big changes in my life. …

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Johnson and Johnson had a full crew with professional sound and light equipment videoing the Latism 11 conference attendees and asking them: “How do you use social media for social good?” I answered that social media has been a place for me to find my voice and together all those individual voices creates one very big voice.

In this way, the community voice of Latism has been built. Because of Latism, I was able to meet many bloggers in person at Blogher 2010 through a scholarship. And now, I attended this wonderful event in Chicago sponsored by I Hispano. Because Latism is a non-profit, all this couldn’t have happened without the support of ALL the sponsors. …

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