#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 and #MobileChat ~ When Pinning Met Mobile

#PinChat and #MobileChat will join forces and chatters for a special chat to explore the power of Pinterest on mobile. Join us Wednesday, April 24th at 9PM ET.

#PinChat: How Authors & Bloggers Can Use Pinterest with Peg Fitzpatrick

Join #PinChat, Wednesday April 17th at 9PM (Eastern) with PinChatter Peg Fitzpatrick.

We will discuss how authors and bloggers can use Pinterest.

About our guest:

Peg Fitzpatrick loves sharing her inspirational thoughts and helping others learn social media through her blog. Covering all the major social media platforms, she frequently hears “you’re everywhere!” She’s passionate about life, social media, and inspiring others to be their best. Peg contributed a chapter to What the Plus! and APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur — How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki.

Peg works with Guy Kawasaki on social media marketing strategy and innovating the world of social media. She’s also the director of marketing and social media manager for Kreussler Inc. covering the online brand management and well as traditional marketing.

You can also find Peg writing and managing partner at 12 Most as well as hosting #MyBookClub a popular online book club on Twitter each month.

Pinning Travel Inspiration on Pinterest

Do you have a travel bucket list? Join #PinChat April 3rd at 9PM EST with Bethany Salvon (Beers & Beans) and Bridgette Salvon-Berndt (Earmark Social) as we chat about Pinterest, travel, and Pin Up Live.

About Beers & Beans:

“A Photographer & Journalist travel the world in search of the unusual, mundane, beautiful & forgotten.”

Created in 2008, Beers & Beans began as a personal travel blog and labor of love that has now turned into an award winning travel site and full time career.

We create unique travel experiences. Our vision is to document the world around us, seek out eclectic travel moments and inspire others. Aesthetics are important to us, so we carefully curate our posts with a focus on storytelling, compelling images and clean design.

About Beth:  After getting her BFA in photography from UMass Dartmouth, Beth went on to work as a commercial & wedding photographer for 11 years before turning her lens to the world. In 2008 she founded the award winning travel blog, BeersandBeans.com. Additionally, her work has appeared in Just Be Magazine, National Geographic Intelligent Travel, G Adventures, The Coast News, San Diego Uptown News among others.  Beth is the author of the popular photography ebook, Getting Out Of Auto.

Most recently, Beth created Pin Up Live, an innovative new social media chat on Pinterest that brings travel enthusiasts and travel companies together to share travel stories, tips & advice.

You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google + and of course Pinterest!

Bridgette Salvon-Berndt is the founder, Directory of Creativity and Social Networker of Earmark Social Goods, a unique source of custom wedding invitations, art prints, garlands, pencils and gifts.  Create Happiness™ is her business slogan and life motto and it tends to help make most days pretty great. Bridgette lives in a small, seaside town along the coast of Massachusetts with her wonderful husband, Mike, who is also Earmark’s Director of Operations, their almost two-year old puppy – Lucy “Goose” and two fun-loving cats, Penny and Toofers.

#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!