Can you guess these social media icons and the cityscape over which they hover? (answer below)
If you are a Designer or EPM planning on attending the CHA Summer 2010 show, you must put this class on your schedule. I would love to meet up with you there as well. I am humbled to be on a panel with these seasoned pros and I know you will be motivated as well with the rich content that is coming you way. We are going to have a lot of fun discussing how we can use the Internet to promote art and products throughout the industry and beyond. See you in Chicago! — Cherish
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Social Networking for Designers: Making the Most of Your Online Presence
Moderated by leading Designer, Katie Hacker.
Join us for a panel discussion about the benefits of using social networking to promote your business. Well-known designers Cherish Flieder and Claudine Hellmuth join media savvy manufacturer iLove to Create and publishers Quayside Publishing Group and Crafts ‘n Things magazine to discuss how designers and EPMs can work together to use new media to their best advantage.
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM
- Cherish Flieder
Designer, Illustrator, Licensor
Something to Cherish div of Cherished Solutions - Abby Foster
Editor, Crafts ‘n Things
Amos Craft Publishing - Stefanie Girard
Quayside Publishing Group Craft Blogs - Katie Hacker
Katiedids - Claudine Hellmuth
Artist
Ranger Industries Inc - Pattie Wilkinson
iLoveToCreate /Duncan Ent
Register Now!
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More about the panelists:
Cherish Flieder
Something to Cherish div of Cherished Solutions
Cherish Flieder creates and implements conceptual licensing collections with her art brands Something to Cherish? and Painting for Life? for product development, books, packaging, and other marketing materials. As an adjunct instructor at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Cherish teaches Internet marketing and computer illustration classes. She is also the founder of www.ArtOfLicensing.com, with over 2200 members on LinkedIn, making it the largest due-free group and international art licensing community.
Abby Foster
Amos Craft Publishing
Abby Foster has had the pleasure of working in the craft industry for twelve years. She is the editor of Crafts ‘n things magazine, published by Amos Craft Publishing.
Previously, Abby was editor of 101 Bridal Ideas magazine.
Stefanie Girard
Stefanie Girard, Craft Marketing Specialist for Quayside Publishing Group, is the writer and producer of the publisher’s blog — Craftside.typepad.com. She is the Recycled Crafts Editor at CraftGossip.com, in addition to writing her own blog, SweaterSurgery.blogspot.com, which takes its name from her book, Sweater Surgery, published by Quarry in 2008. In addition to writing and designing for all aspects of Internet Marketing, Ms. Girard has designed hundreds of specialty projects for craft manufacturers and produced how-to TV shows for both HGTV and DIY Networks
Katie Hacker
Katie Hacker has written more than 20 books about beading and crafts which have sold nearly a million copies. She is the host of the public television show Beads, Baubles & Jewels and is a columnist for Beadwork magazine. Katie’s new product line, Katiedids Creative Components, is now available from Beadalon. Read her blog at KatieHacker.com.
Claudine Hellmuth
Ranger Industries Inc
Claudine Hellmuth is a nationally recognized collage artist, author and illustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-retro collages that she calls Poppets®
Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion magazine, The New York Times, on HGTV’s “I Want That!” and on the DIY Network’s program, “Craft Lab.”
In addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine has developed a product line with Ranger Inc. under the brand name of “Claudine Hellmuth Studio”, teaches collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 3 books and 3 DVDs about her techniques.
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Pattie Wilkinson
For more than 20 years Pattie — or “Pattiewack” as her friends call her — has been doing what she loves and eagerly shares her creative process with fans in her online videos and blog at PattieWack.com. Her media adventures include appearances in a video series for Today’s Creative Home Arts club, the New York Daily News and Santa Paula Times, and TV Networks such as Lifetime, CBS, PBS, FOX, DIY, HSN, TNN and QVC.
You’ll find Pattie at the iLoveToCreate™ CHA booth demonstrating the latest in crafting, and at the SuperShow Craft Academy from 6 – 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 30 and from 3 – 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 31, where she’ll be urging her crafty fans to “Have fun with it!”
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