Meeting Online Friends In Real Life
A few months ago I met the fabulous Katy Widrick online. Katy blogs about healthy living … both food and fitness. She is a TV producer and social media manager by day and then with her boundless energy, she is a runner and triathlete by night. (makes me tired just typing all that) Recently I got to meet Katy in real life. She was one of the speakers at Fitbloggin … the conference I attended last weekend.
Katy (on the left) taught a session with Jess from JessRuns.com ... Photo from KatyWidrick.com
Today Katy blogged about The Small World of Social Media including how her and I first connected via social media and then in real life. In her post she says … “Thanks to technology, you can get to know people, absorb their stories and get invested in their lives — all without ever hearing their voice or seeing their face.
That’s all very cool, but there’s still something special about that human connection — and I experienced it in a very cool, very socially-savvy way this weekend.
I attended Fitbloggin … I hugged and shook hands with some of my biggest blogging heroes, but perhaps the most meaningful connection came with Janet Oberholtzer …
Read the rest of her post on the blog she writes for Growing Bolder the TV/Radio station she works for.
