Thread Show is this weekend!

The Thread Show is this weekend!

Website: http://www.threadshow.com
Twitter handle: @threadshows
Hash tag: #threadshow
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/threadshow
Date: December 5-6, 2009
Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets: $8 if you RSVP (here: http://threadshow.com/show_info.php?show_id=78&show=rsvp) or $10 if you don’t RSVP. You can also get a $2 discount if you bring a bag of clothes to donate to charity.
Location: Wonderhaus (171 14th Street, San Diego, CA)

Highlights at THREAD:

· 100+ designers
· Fashion shows both days at 1 and 3 p.m. hosted by Gordana Gehlhausen of Project Runway
· Live screen printing from SEZIO
· Spin the Creativity Wheel with Holiday Matinee
· A complimentary hair and makeup style lounge from A Style Concierge
· Wine tastings on the hour from Vin De Syrah (@SyrahWineParlor)
· Lounges from 944 Magazine, DiscoverSD and W Hotel
· A Tweet Wall sponsored by SignOnSanDiego!
· Pin the Tail on the Hipster with Yelp!

A bit of history:

THREAD Show has been happening in San Diego for almost seven years. It started as a trunk show in Lara’s garden at her home in Golden Hill and now it’s exponentially larger. The event has also been held in San Francisco, LA, Miami, Seattle and Las Vegas.

What the heck happens at THREAD:

From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can shop from local designers for clothing, art, books and more. Why should you shop THREAD and not the shopping mall, you ask? Because purchasing from the designers at THREAD allows you to save money by purchasing at wholesale prices and skipping the retailer middleman, you lessen your carbon footprint because your items aren’t being shipped all over and many of our designers are also eco-friendly and, finally, you support your local economy (and I don’t know of a better time than the present to start doing that!). Plus, where else can you bang out your holiday shopping with a cocktail in hand, sushi in your tummy and listening to some of the city’s top DJs?

See you there!

@GlobalPatriot Monday Mixer #gpmm

I attended a @GlobalPatriot Monday Mixer (#gpmm) last night, where we all get together to discuss world change, the issues at hand, and how we remove the country/political borders, support those making a difference in the world, and contribute in any way we can to further their work. The event last night was at EC Gallery in Downtown San Diego, and was a great location to enjoy some spactacular works of art, drink some great wine (from Mark’s own wine collection usually), and talk with some great friends. @skovi and @egoddess recorded a series of video interviews, and can’t wait to see the results of all those interviews, the diverse nature of the responses, and use it as a great example to further the cause of global thinking.

Here’s a great video from the last #gpmm in May at Arterra in Del Mar:

Igniting the Cycle of Interactivity on your own Web Site

Oh, the joys of having a web site. Like the cobbler’s children have no shoes… I am terrible at maintaining my own damn web sites. LOL! A key reason is I’m working on tons of other people’s web sites, coding or customizing, setting up and configuring, upgrading or installing. I enjoy being the guy people can turn to for all things Web related, and owning Web Wizards for the past 12 years has allowed me to work with amazing clients and sites.

However my own sites suffer from neglect sometimes, sad but true. I need to spend more time on them, but seem to have trouble motivating myself to focus on them. There are a few ways to change that, re-prioritizing things is the most direct way, but easier said than done usually. I’m also looking into outsourcing, partnering, and leveraging with others so that the ideas I’d like to make reality are moving forward at an increased rate compared to doing everything myself.  More news on that soon. But through changing the process of updating a site, and making the initial steps shorter, quicker, and easier, it makes it easier to get started yourself.

One method that seems to help get the content in your head to become content published on your site is to create many short draft posts, with just the outline of what your post is about. The main thoughts or ideas written down in short list format. Once a few drafts are written and saved, you can go back to each one and more easily write the content, replacing each outlined idea with the expanded content. Refine the body, then rewrite the title based on the clear message in your newly created post.

Once the post is completed, publish it to your site. If you have the time to do a few posts, schedule the others to be published on a schedule, spread out over a few days.  New content to your site regularly will generate traffic if you link your Twitter and Facebook sites to your site, and with traffic comes comments, and the cycle of interactivity begins, which can in turn create ideas and motivation for more posts!

I’m sometimes my own worst enemy at implementing the advice I give to clients that host their sites with me. I enjoy helping people with their sites, and it’s not work to me when doing so, but implementing it myself seems less fulfilling… mostly because I haven’t started my own cycle of interactivity yet.

Consider this ignition.