(Tamar Weinberg is a) Schwag Addict

In early April, Blogger Social was held and united some of the most clever minds in the marketing industry. I was fortunate to have attended because I now have homework to read. 😉

They also had some cool shirt giveaways:

Online invoicing software Freshbooks handed out this cutesy tee:

The Ideablob community also provided good stuff.

The Bitchy Betty bitching website also handed out cool shirts!

You couldn’t go to NY without an I heart NY shirt, which came in a NY survival kit. 🙂

And there was also a hat:

Additionally, we got Amazon giftcards, a month’s subscription to Freshbooks, a gift certificate from MarketingProfs, a Beauty by the Foot pamphlet and ruler, and a moleskin notebook.

Here are a list of the attendees 🙂

Susan Bird
Tim Brunelle Katie Chatfield
Matt Dickman
Luc Debaisieux
Gianandrea Facchini
Mark Goren
Gavin Heaton
Sean Howard
CK
Valeria Maltoni
Drew McLellan
Doug Meacham
Marilyn Pratt
Steve Roesler
Greg Verdino
CB Whittemore
Steve Woodruff
Paul McEnany
Ann Handley
David Reich
Tangerine Toad
Kristin Gorski
Mack Collier
David Armano
Ryan Barrett
Lori Magno
Tim McHale
Gene DeWitt
Mario Vellandi
Arun Rajagopal
Joseph Jaffe (who didn’t really attend)
Rohit Bhargava
Anna Farmery
Marianne Richmond
Thomas Clifford
Lewis Green
Geoff Livingston
Kris Hoet
Connie Reece
CeCe Lee
Toby Bloomberg
Seni Thomas
Darryl Ohrt
Joe Kutchera
Paul Dunay
Marshall Sponder
Chris Kieff
Tara Anderson
Jason Falls
Paul Soldera
Roberta Rosenberg
Saul Colt
Todd Andrlik
Nathan Snell
Ryan Karpeles
Mike Sansone
Jennifer Laycock
Neil Vineberg
Cam Beck
Mike Arauz
Matthew Bailey
Heather Gorringe
John Rosen
Cathleen Rittereiser
Tamar Weinberg
Rita Perea
Linda Sherman
Matthew McDonald
Kaitlyn Wilkins
Terry Starbucker
Jennifer Berk
Jane Quigley
John Wall
Scott Monty
Kevin Horne
Virginia Miracle
Amanda Gravel
Susan Reynolds
David Polinchock
Shashi Bellamkonda
David Berkowitz
Vahe Habeshian

Thanks to Jason Falls for helping me out with Friday night’s schwag and CK as well, and thanks to Drew for arranging a Kosher meal for the event 🙂

I like what’s practical, and domain news site Modern Domainer delivers that with this cool keychain can opener:

I love desk toys (hint hint). This is one of those fun things that I got at a recent search conference from SEO firm BigMouthMedia:

The idea is grand; you can’t get any better than a wind-up chatterbox mouth when you’re a company called BigMouthMedia. 🙂

On Tuesday, my old trusted Linksys BEFSR81 router crapped out. Instead of seeing the regular green lights, I saw a ton of red lights flashing and all of my computers couldn’t stay on the Internet for more than 5 minutes without being informed that a cable was unplugged. All in all, it was a very depressing experience, and I knew I needed to do something quick.

Thankfully, New York’s biggest and most reliable photography store B&H Photo came for the calling. Thanks to a guy named Moshe, I have a brand new router.

Now, all I need is a Nikon D300… or instead, I’ll settle for an 85mm f1.4 lens for my other Nikon DSLRs. 🙂

Thanks, B&H, for saving the day!