#PinChat with Southwest Airlines

Join #PinChat Wednesday May 22 at 9PM ET with Southwest Airlines

About our guest:

Christi McNeill

Southwest Airlines Senior Communications Specialist

Christi McNeill serves as an online Spokesperson for Southwest Airlines, the nation’s largest airline in terms of domestic Customers boarded. Christi specializes in Social Media Communications.

In addition to her online media relations duties, Christi works as the “voice” behind the

Southwest Airlines Twitter account (@Southwestair) and Facebook Fan page. She is

also a moderator and blogger on Nuts About Southwest (www.blogsouthwest.com) and

manages the Southwest Airlines corporate Pinterest page. She intimately understands

the reach of the media and has been the author of several successful story placements

creating positive buzz for Southwest Airlines. She’s been featured in the New York

Times, Mashable.com, and USA Today as a communicator that “gets it.”

A Texas native, Christi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

#PinChat: Mother’s Day Gift Ideas Contest WINNERS!

Thank you to all that participated in the surprise Gifts for Mom #PinChat

inspired by Linda Bernstein’s “10 Best Mother’s Day Gifts Ever” on Next Avenue.

Special thanks to all that Pinned their favorite Pins from the Mother’s Day Gift Ideas board.

And THANK YOU to all of the sponsors for the AWESOME prizes!

Thanks again to all that joined and now what you have all been waiting for…..Congratulations!

Winners:

1st Heather http://pinterest.com/bennettsocial

2nd Cathy http://pinterest.com/palmbreezelife

3rd Elizabeth http://pinterest.com/altchar

4th Mike http://pinterest.com/mikestreet

5th Barbara  http://pinterest.com/VedanteCorp

 

Sponsors:

Meeo Miia http://pinterest.com/meeomiia

Kelly http://pinterest.com/kellylieberman

Aida http://pinterest.com/AidaofNubia

Internet Media Labs  http://pinterest.com/TheLabNYC/

 

Thank you Linda Bernstein (http://pinterest.com/lindabernstein) for sharing your inspiring article with us and Next Avenue ( http://pinterest.com/nextavenue) for allowing us to share it on Pinterest

Participants:

Krishna D http://pinterest.com/krishnade

Erica http://pinterest.com/ericamw1

Kim http://pinterest.com/kimite

Clutter Savannah and Interior http://pinterest.com/cluttersavannah

Jenna  http://pinterest.com/jhutson51207

SenecaSoMe http://pinterest.com/senecasome

Bhupesh http://pinterest.com/ethnicomm

Please visit all their awesome boards and find some inspiring ones to follow!

#PinChat with Target

Join #PinChat Wednesday May 15th at 9PM EST with Target

About our guest:

Angie Thompson is a public relations and social media specialist at Target, where she works on A Bullseye View, Target’s behind-the-scenes online magazine and Target’s Pinterest strategy. She joined Target in 2012 from  global PR firm Weber Shandwick where she worked for more than 7 years in consumer and digital marketing. Angie has her M.A. in strategic communication from the University of Minnesota and her B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, Minn.)

#PinChat with Star 94

 

Join #PinChat Wednesday, March 27th at 9PM EST for a fun chat about group boards, favorite things to Pin, and taking Pinspiration offline with you and Star 94‘s Cindy Simmons and Heather Branch.

 

Cindy Simmons Carnell was born and raised in Los Angeles. She made her way to Atlanta in 2003 via a six year stop in Nashville. She loves her most important role in life as a Mommy and devotes much time to her seven year-old daughter Lily Jane and her newborn baby girl Luna James. Cindy supports many charities including fighting sex-trafficking with WellspringLiving.org, helping young women diagnosed with Breast Cancer through the Young Survival Coalition, co-hosting the annual Childhood Autism Candlelight Ball the last four years with Heather Branch as well as working with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the American Cancer Society. Cindy is a three year Breast Cancer Survivor and lives in the Brookhaven area with her new husband Eric and their family which includes their little wiener dog Winchester. Cindy loves to attend Buckhead Church and is obsessed with mommy blogging, pop culture and Taco Bell!

 

 

Heather Branch, an Atlanta native, earned her Marketing degree from Virginia Tech before beginning her career in radio. Since then, she’s lived and worked in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia again, before moving back home to join the Star 94 Air Staff, as the Midday host, in 2009. Outside of the radio station, you can find Heather at concerts, gardening, or planning her next pilgrimage to Blacksburg, VA for a Hokie football game…That is, unless she’s too busy worshiping her nephew, Tyler and niece, Reagan! Heather can also perfectly fold a fitted sheet, makes the best Chocolate Chip cookies, and would blush if the number of hours she’s logged on Pinterest were ever revealed!

Turn Pinterest Into Your Personal Shopper with Shopmine

Join #PinChat, Wednesday March 6th at 9PM EST and learn how Shopmine turns Pinterest into a daily email of shop-able items from your feed.

Roger Wu is co-founder of Shopmine.co, a machine learning application designed to provide a curated yet surprising shopping experience.  Prior he founded Klickable.tv, an interactive video platform.  He currently organizes the Stamford Tech Meetup, the NYC Pinterest Summit and New York Crowdfunds.  Previously Roger had led digital marketing at Digital Power and Light, the digital arm of an NYC PR firm, and was part of the founding team at Bloomberg Law.  He began his career in Structured Finance at Goldman Sachs.  Roger holds three degrees from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated from the Jerome Fisher Management and Technology Program.