the shorty awards and the dana review

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Princess Lasertron in business

Edit: As of now, I’m in third place now for the Shorty Awards! You guys are amazing!

This week, the Winter edition of the Dana Review was released and I am featured in an interview about using social media to grow your small business. Soon it should be available on Dana’s website as a .pdf, but until then you can click these links to see high-quality scans (courtesy of my proud mama!).

They didn’t print it there, but the photo credit goes to Lilia Ahner, an amazing wedding photographer from San Francisco.

Also, thanks to everyone who has nominated me for a Shorty Award in design! I got a few tweets that I had been nominated and I was totally surprised. If you want to cast a vote for me, click here to go to my page and retweet the nomination with your own thoughts. I’d really appreciate it–this is a cool contest with lots of great nominees to check out in all categories!

Briefly, here are the rules and guidelines for voting (from the Shorty Awards website)

…To vote, send a tweet like this: “I nominate @lasertron for a Shorty Award in #design because… (add reason here).” You can do this on Twitter.com, with any Twitter client, or using the voting box on my nominee page.
…You can also send shorter votes like this: “#shortyawards @lasertron #design” (add quick reason here). This shorter format is helpful if you want to vote from a party, on the road, in a meeting, or on a boat
…Be as creative as you want with the reason
…A tweet that does not give a reason for the nomination will not be counted
…Voters must be active Twitter users prior to the start of the competition. Votes originating from new Twitter accounts or accounts used mainly for Shorty Awards voting will automatically be disqualified and will not count toward the rankings
…Votes must appear publicly. Votes from private Twitter accounts will not be counted.

The winner gets to go to New York to accept the award. I’m not sure I really have earned it, but I’m definitely gonna go for it!!

This week I’m going to record a video tutorial for a cute Valentine’s Day project (can you believe that’s already the next holiday?) and start several bridal orders for this year. I was hoping to get everything for the whole year done before May, but we’ll see. It’s so hard for me to say no sometimes.

xo