What a crazy past week it has been. I was out of town last week for Demand Success, a PR conference, and it was quite amazing. From awesome speakers to eager attendees, the event was a complete success!
Arianna Huffington
Arianna is such an inspiring person. Check out my blog post on her talk, which hardly does her justice. She’s a phenomenal speaker and absolutely hilarious!
Elizabeth Moss aka Peggy Olsen!
The conference had a Mad Men themed party after Elizabeth’s keynote.
A Sterling Affair at the National Harbor Gaylord Hotel
Let me tell ya’, PR people know how to throw a party!
Photo credit: Divya Ooi
Photo booth time!
In between adding each others Instagram accounts and exchanging business cards, we had a blast learning about the latest trends in the media while also making friends to last along the way.
It was amazing being surrounded by such high-energy, fast-paced people looking to work together to inspire growth in the world. As one Vocus employee described over lunch, “we’re a bunch of type-A’s eating social media,” as we take Vine videos of our delicious meals.
Just a Don Draper-esque selfie
The energy at Demand Success was palpable. I met some amazing new friends, learned a ton, and was thrived on the inspiration. If anyone out there is struggling with their career goals, keep working on it because you will find it.
Even if you’re far from finding your career goals, don’t wish the time away because no one tells you how the journey can be just as fun as the end result. 🙂
Thank you Vocus and the National Harbor Gaylord Hotel for hosting such a fabulous conference!
Have a great evening!
The Zen Kat 
Wow, I am crazy, crazy jealous of your experience!
Blogging is great, but my personal interest expand far beyond that and I would LOVE to get to attend an industry conference.
If you are able to, I would be fascinated to read a post about some of your favorite parts of the conference/ takeaways etc!
Silly me, just realized their website posted recaps 🙂
Vocus has some awesome recaps! You can also check out my other blog posts (the first 4) on the conference here: http://blog.search-mojo.com/author/akatzen/
🙂
Wow, that sounds awesome! I love Arianna especially.
That’s so awesome, I love when work has great perks like that! Glad you had a fun time even though it was work related=)
Looked like it was a lot of fun!
This looks so amazing!
Looks so awesome! I am jealous of your job 🙂
Looks like an amazing conference!! And that quote you have at the end is one of my all time favorites!
Sounds like an awesome time! 🙂
Sounds like you had a fun time! Glad you were able to experience all you did. You’re a lucky girl!
Wow it sounds like you had a great time! I have taken a few PR classes and love the area. I think working with social media and how companies can get out there is so cool!
Sounds like a fun event to attend. I’ve always been interested in PR work and learning more.
That looks like such a fun event! It looks so interesting too! Love your selfie, adorable!
That conference does sound like fun! It looks like there was lots to do. 🙂 And I love, love that quote!
Glad it was a success! What an awesome experience!