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Goodbye kaponetwo, Hello carlyanne.com

Carly — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:54:16 +0000

After a great year of blogging with my alter-ego I have decided to move on from the kaponetwo name and am rebranding the site as carlyanne.com.

It was a tough decision to make as I’m quite fond of this name, but it’s proven to be difficult to explain, understand and repeat (how many people say kapone – two?)

I hope you’ll continue to read me at the new URL and it will still be the same great site you’ve come to love. Everything has been moved over and kaponetwo.com will be phased out over the next month.

Please update your links to: http://www.carlyanne.com and RSS feed/reader to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/carlyannecom

I am inspired

Carly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:28:53 +0000

Just had a great work hang with Casie. We brainstormed a whole bunch and got a lot of things figured out. I am feeling so positive and inspired about the future and our collaboration.

She posted this on her tumblr @ me

I like getting the ball rolling…

Carly — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:39 +0000

Last night’s Toronto Blog Stars event, put on by me and featuring Casie, Raymi & Sean was a big success. I’m really proud of all three of you for putting together such great presentations. Thank you to everyone who came out to the event.

This week has been so crazy busy and I’m behind on work stuff so Show and Tell will be late, as will my wrap up of the event.

Here are some posts that Sean Ward, Romi, Melissa & Jane wrote about last night.

MTV FORA, Peach Beserk & Blog Babes

Carly — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:22:26 +0000

I got my hair fixed first thing on Monday and it’s back to pink for me. Thank you so much to Matt at Brennen Demelo Salon for coming in early on a Monday morning, fixing my colour and styling my hair for the MTV event. Then it was off to see my lady Krista Mae, makeup artist extraordinaire, to get my makeup done. I felt like such a princess having people do my hair & makeup and put me in a pretty dress to wear. I’m always the business person in the background, holding on to everyone’s stuff and it was such a nice change to be the one in the spotlight, so to speak.

My sister Kristin was able to make it out, which was so great. I love going places with her and she looked hot in a blue suede dress. My cupcake dress is by Peach Berserk.

Raymi, Michelle, Carol, Casie, Me, Kristin, Breanna

The first part of our fun day was to watch the interview with Kelly Cutrone of People’s Revolution. Some of you may know her from her work on The Hills & The City. She’s a fashion PR powerhouse and now a TV star and author. I really wanted to meet Kelly in person and get a chance to talk to her, but she was on her promo tour for her book “If You Have To Cry, Go Outside” so she was whisked away to her next interview. Kelly is one of my business idols and I can’t wait to read her book and hopefully have the chance to meet her in person one day.

After the interview the media/VIP’s went up to the Masonic Hall for a sneak preview of MTV’s new online magazine FORA. Casie is the features editor of the magazine and she invited a whole bunch of bloggers and media including the Toronto Blog Girls. It was so great to see all the girls out and dressed so pretty and I got to meet a few more Tweeps/Bloggers IRL.

The magazine will be live in April and the first issue is a Prom theme featuring dresses by Peach Berserk. Casie & Kingi worked together to dress the Toronto Blog Girls for the event, hence the pretty dresses. There were a few girls that were saying some nasty things about us dressing up on their blogs & twitter feeds. Who knew that wearing pretty prom dresses would cause girls to act like we’re in high school? I was pretty surprised that anyone invited to an event as media would be negative about us wearing dresses featured in the magazinebut I’ll chalk it up to jealousy because we all looked gorgeous.

They had a photo wall up for us to take “Prom Photos” and we all took advantage and hammed it up for the cameras.

Casie, Lisa, Michelle, Raymi, Kristin, Me

Dan & Jessi introduced the magazine and showed outtakes of their “celebrity photo shoot”. These two are a great pair and they work together really well.

My sister and I had the chance to chat with Jessi and she’s such a sweetheart. We were talking about her most interesting interview and she floored us when she said Tom Cruise! Apparently he is really nice and down to earth in person. Who knew?

After the preview we went down to Hemingways for some drinks and food. It was such a great day and thank you to Casie & MTV for starting off my week with such a fun day.

Cupcakes and Mace

Carly — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:13:37 +0000

Today is the launch of MTV’s online magazine FORA. I’ve been invited to the launch along with some of my favourite blog girls. Kelly Cutrone is also going to be at the event. She is in town to promote her book “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside”. I’m going to do my best to meet her and hopefully get a chance to chat. She is one of my business idols and I can’t wait to read her book.

I’ve got a pretty dress all ready to go and I’m off shortly to get my hair colour fixed. My amazing stylist Matt and I decided to try another brand of pink hair dye and it is not what we were going for at all, so he’s coming in early to fix me up before the event today.

Excuse my hung face in the photo, this was the morning after HTV’s show at the Hideout.

I hope you are all having a good start to your week.

A week today…

Carly — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:41 +0000

A week today is the the event that my agency is hosting, The Guide to Social Media Success. There are still tickets left if you want to come. You’ll get to hear from top bloggers Casie, Raymi & Sean and learn the tricks of the trade like:

how to get – and keep – the attention of movers and shakers in your industry
how to turn your everyday life into compelling content
how to brand yourself online
what programs and applications to use to host your site, keep track of your statistics, and promote yourself & your blog

You’ll also get a chance to ask questions and we’re going to be having drinks and networking after they speak. I’m really looking forward to it and I hope to see some of you out IRL.

The four of us had a sushi meeting last week and Sean made this video to promote our event. I continue to be awkward on camera and I hope you guys enjoy it.

Today is my Blogoversary

Carly — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:38:35 +0000

I can’t believe that it’s been a year since I started my blog. It’s crazy to think about where I was when I started it and where I am now. I was a skeptical at first about putting myself out there onto the internet for everyone to read, but I’m really glad I did. I’ve met some really great friends through blogging and even started a blog division for my agency.

A big thank you to everyone who has read, commented and supported my blog You make my day!

I can’t wait to see what the next year will bring.

I’m on The Link

Carly — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:44 +0000

Sean Ward, one of my newest business co-horts, caught me on video the other night at Casie’s house after our SMWTO event and asked me some questions about the launch of my New Media Division. Check out the video and interview here

Meet Carly-Anne Fairlie of The Fairlie Agency. Carly-Anne noticed that most of the work was going to the people on her roster who are active on Youtube and social media so the natual thing to do was to go full-force. The founded the Toronto Blog Stars and now she represents Raymi, Casie, and me. Stay tuned for the announcement of our first big event together.

Thank you Sean for posting about me & the agency!

Social Media Trends in 2010

Carly — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:19:38 +0000

Yesterday I went to the Social Media Trends in 2010 presentation to hear Scott Stratton speak. He runs a company called UnMarketing and I was really looking forward to hearing what he had to say. I went with Currybomb and we just made it in time, luckily Casie had saved us seats.

I was really impressed with Scott’s presentation. He was very engaging and I actually took notes and learned a lot. If you follow me on Twitter you likely saw my favourite quotes of the evening:

“Twitter is my trusted Google”

“Twitter is like a water cooler for Entrepreneurs”

“If you don’t know who the creepy dude is in your office, you are the creepy dude”

He really gets social media and his philosophy “stop marketing, start engaging” makes sense. Scott/UnMarketing started on Twitter in Jan 2009 and logged 7,000 tweets in his first month to be relevant. This hard work earned him a book deal and I am definitely going to read it when it comes out. Thanks to UnMarketing & Refresh Events for putting on a great event.

Afterwards I went with Sean, new friend Sheldon & Casie to her house for a food and a hang before Kathryn picked my up to go to our next event. It was a blast hanging with you guys and we’ll have to do it again soon!

pr agency

Do I entertain you?

Carly — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:06:08 +0000

If so, then please nominate my blog for the Best New Blog in the 2010 Bloggies.

It’s super easy to do and you don’t have to register for anything, just enter in your email address.

Click HERE and look for this nomination form:

Type in my info:

NOMINEE: kaponetwo
URL: http://www.kaponetwo.com/

You have to make 3 nominations, so add me and any two other blogs you like. There are a bunch of different categories to choose from. Feel free to nominate a blog from my Favourite Blogs on the sidebar.

Thank you!