As I’ve said before, I LOVE conferences.  Taking two or three days to focus on professional development is a great way to hone your business communications. Conference attendees learn new things, share ideas, meet new people and reconnect with familiar folks. They also get to practice their elevator pitch, explore potential partnerships and fine tune the smooth moves needed to elegantly exchange business cards.

My next conference is the 2016 National Mompreneurs™ Conference in Toronto.  Together with fellow west coast attendees Elaine Tan Comeau of Easy Daysies and Maria Freeman of Little Jots, I’ll be connecting with some of the brightest and most-successful female entrepreneurs in Canada.  I’m looking forward to meeting keynote speakers Debbie Travis, Erica Ehm and Natalie MacNeil.  I’m also keen to connect with Mompreneurs™ Canada CEO Maria Locker and the leading women of the 15 chapters from across Canada. With three notable keynote speakers and two-days of events and workshops, I’m sure I will be inspired, enriched and energized.

As always, I think its important to prepare to make the most of each conference. There’s no point in wasting time and money going to an event without some careful forethought.  My two part article How to Prepare for a Conference, is a handy reference. Check out part one on my website and then head over to Social Media Camp to read the rest.  (By the way, I’ll be speaking at Social Media Camp 2016. Its been five years since my last presentation at Social Media Camp, one of my all-time favourite conferences. I’ll debut my new talk The Digital Cleanse.)