I’m Heading To The FitSocial 2013 Conference!

Blogging And Social Media
For Fitness And Health Communities

My work travel schedule for October looks like this:

That doesn’t even tell the whole story, because it doesn’t show the conferences that I am speaking at in Washington, D.C. on October 3 (before I dash to the airport to catch my flight to Chicago) and October 24 (before I collapse!), or the dinner meetings that crowd my few evenings at home. 🙁

But, the next trip on my calendar is to Boulder and Denver to attend the FitSocial 2013 Conference this weekend. 🙂

I love Boulder.

I am saddened by the recent flooding, and wonder if I will be able to run along the Boulder Creek Path, but I know that at least the mountain views will still be there.

And, of course, I’m excited about meeting other bloggers and learning about blogging, social media, and recent trends in health and fitness. Here is an overview of the agenda:

On Friday, the conference is held at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder. Although the conference program doesn’t really start until the afternoon, there is a Vinyasa Flow yoga class offered in the morning. In the afternoon there are two sessions with parallel breakout sessions to choose from:

Session I

1. Building Your Brand and Monetizing Your Fitness Expertise (with the wonderful ladies from Fun and Fit)
2. Blog Bootcamp: Get Your Blog in Shape in 50 Minutes
3. Overview of Social Media: How and When to Use Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social Media Platforms

Session II

1. SEO for Websites and Blogs
2. Succeeding with YouTube
3. Creating an E-Book to Build Your Brand

To counteract all that sitting and learning, there is a High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) exercise class before dinner. 😛

On Saturday, the conference moves to the Anschutz Center in Denver. Saturday morning the program includes a lecture (“Alternative Medicine – Fact or Fiction?”) and a Physical Fitness Lab Demonstration. Saturday afternoon brings more blogging sessions (Social Media in the Fitness World, Communication of Evidence-Based Health and Wellness Information), and another round of exercise classes (Tabata Cycle, Zumba, and Barre Conditioning.)

Sunday morning starts with another exercise class, and then there is a keynote speaker, and cooking demonstration before the conference wraps up.

I love that this conference has both blogging/social media sessions and educational health/fitness sessions, with organized fitness classes every day. It will be hard to choose among the different parallel breakout sessions, but I’m sure I will learn something no matter which ones I attend.

If you are local to the Denver area, it’s not too late to register.  If you happen to be a Colorado-based member of the fitness industry, you can even attend the Friday sessions at no cost, if your application for the Local Trade Day pass is approved. (I am attending on a blogger pass, at a discounted rate in exchange for blogging about the event.)

Is there a place away from home that has captured your heart? 

Have you been to a blogging conference?