Miss Lori made magic at home instead of at Disney Social Media Moms Conference

Earlier this year I along with many other fellow bloggers were given a special invitation to vie for a spot to attend The Disney Social Media Moms conference. When the enrollment site opened there was mass frenzy in the social media universe; pages weren’t clicking through, and payments weren’t being processed for some but they were for others. There was a mixture of joy and frustration, elation and disappointment. I had intended to sign up, just as I had last year, but information didn’t reach me and so I was late to the “party”. By the time I was able to get home to my computer enrollment was closed. [Read more...]

Disney Give a Day, Get a Day program reaches goal of 1 Million volunteers. Keep Going!

Last month I had the great pleasure of attending the Disney Social Media Moms Conference in Orlando, Florida. Our second day of the conference we attended a celebration of volunteerism at Epcot Center. Trucks were rolling out, carrying food to people in need both domestically and in Haiti. But in order for that to happen volunteers were needed to stack cans, seed trees and stuff Ziploc bags with supplies. The most impressive message of the day for me was that every little bit counts. [Read more...]