About the Organizers
Barbara Jones, Paula Bruno, Alli Worthington, Catherine Connors
(Photo courtesy of Casey Mullins)
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Allison jokingly refers to herself as the accidental entrepreneur. She first discovered blogging and Twitter in 2007 and her life was never the same. Channeling her passion for Social Media, Blogging and community, she built a media conglomerate all based on one tenet; Bringing Good Things to Women. Blissfully Domestic Publishing, BlissDom Conferences, and Blissful Media Group all work to promote positive things for women. Allison is a dynamic consultant who specializes in advising social media strategy and development of innovative promotional campaigns. She is often seen herding her five boys around town and staring lovingly at her iPhone.
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Intuition Marketing and One2One Network were founded by Barbara Jones, a seasoned marketing executive in the entertainment industry. She met @alliworthington on Twitter and BlissDom was born. Barbara is a sought-after speaker and consultant on marketing, social media and word of mouth marketing involving women and moms. She happily works in the NYC-Tri-State Area but dreams of the mountains in the West to satisfy her annual snowboarding fix. Barbara and her husband have three children and five six Macs. |
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Paula Bruno recently joined Intuition Marketing/One2One Network as President and she worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help make BlissDom’10 a success this year.
She has over two decades of business experience. In 1996, she co-founded United Rentals, Inc., the world’s largest equipment rental company. She specialized in strategic planning, risk analysis, financial analysis, and public relations.
She is an aspiring blogger and blogs at Chicks & Balances although she hasn’t had time to update since BlissDom planning began. Her passion is women’s and girl’s economic empowerment. She lives with her husband and two amazing daughters in New Canaan, CT.
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Catherine is a mother, writer and recovering academic who recently contributed to Canada’s brain drain by relocating to New York City. She’s the Director of Community and Social Good at Babble, the author of HerBadMother.com and a freelance writer who writes, sometimes, about surviving motherhood, sometimes about surviving womanhood, sometimes about trying to make the world a better place, and more often than not about her belief that bad is, really, the new good. (She really does believe that bad is the new good. She wrote a Manifesto. She’s that committed.)
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After being teased in High School for being a Social Butterfly and told it wouldn’t take her very far in life, she fell into the serious world of banking and for 17 years she was cooped up & bored. In the fall of 2007 she packed up her business suits & sensible shoes to be a stay-at-home mom.
Shannon started blogging in 2006 and as the late-bloomer she is, she didn’t join Facebook until 2007. She “dabbled” in social media enough to cause some people to worry about her growing addiction.
Blogging went from hobby to a passion to a career in 2009 when a marketing company noticed her and snatched her up to lead their Social Media Marketing department.
Her Chrysalis moment came in 2010 when she decided to dive into the Twitter-craze — suddenly her Social Butterfly was again unleashed.
To the High School teachers who thought {and said} I wouldn’t amount to much, I just have one thing to say…. How do you like me now?!
Shannon is mom to 3 boys & 1 girl. Her and her husband of 15 years lead a crazy awesome church in Kitchener, Ontario.
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 Shannon McKarney – @zchamu
Shannon is an Ottawa mom-of-one, writer, wife, beagle owner and all-round chum. She originally came from Nova Scotia and while she left many years ago, she has not lost the ability to dismember a lobster with her bare hands. Shannon worked for many years in high tech in both Canada and the UK doing Very Busy And Important Things for Adobe, Tomoye, Shopify and Overlay.TV. She’s regained her senses, and now she’s a full time mama and social media darling.
Shannon writes her personal blog at zchamu.com, writes about social justice at Care2.com, writes about parenting at The Bad Moms Club and about sports at Draft Day Suit. She also does social media consulting during naptimes. If you’re trying to bribe her, bring red wine and dark chocolate.
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Amy is a freelance web designer and graphics artist with an array of experience and creative endeavors. In 2006, Amy ‘retired’ from General Motors with 16 years experience in Program Management. She also has an MBA in Global Operations which she completed just in time to have twins and become a stay at home mom.
In 2008 Amy engaged her entrepreneurial spirit and rediscovered passion for writing and designing choosing the new career path of cultural creative instead of returning to the corporate world. Thus, Beyond Creatives was born. Amy enjoys engaging her community at large by holding seminars that help local businesses and groups take their first steps in the world of the internet and social media. She writes… err, uhh, or wrote, about her journey as a single mom at BeyondJEMS (Jacob & Emma’s Mommy). But since joining the BlissDom Events team in 2010, she’s had much less time to do so.
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Dana joined the BlissDom team over a year ago, right in time to join you all for the first BlissDom Canada! In her role as Sponsorship Director she has had the pleasure of working with all of our fabulous sponsors. And they are truly fabulous, so spread some love!
Dana comes to BlissDom with years of senior marketing experience in the magazine publishing industry and prior to BlissDom, fumbled her way through the social media learning curve with her own blog and online radio show: LifestyleMom and The LifestyleMom RadioCafé, the mission of which is to help women live a passionate and healthy life while raising a family. She is also excited to be working with a creative team to adapt her book Blindsided by a Diaper into a musical comedy play. Dana has three young boys and is married to her college sweetheart Dave.
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Allison Worthington – 
