The Eiffel Tower Is Calling My Name. Je vais à PARIS!

[Editor's note: this post serves more as a public service announcement.]

Bonjour mes amies! I wanted to give everyone the heads up, since today would be my scheduled post for the week:

I leave for Paris on THURSDAY!

Dans trois jours! C’est incroyable!!!! (in 3 days! It’s incredible!!)

…wish I remembered more French than I actually do…

In case you haven’t heard, I am going to Paris (and newly added London) to visit my sister who’s studying abroad in France. Very excited for the whole thing: to see my sister, to see Paris and London, to have vacation, and I’ve been tres vocal about my excitement since I booked my trip (apologizes if it was too much excitement haha).

For anyone who stops by here until I return on April 12th, the content will remain the same. This week is crazy busy with packing, running errands after work, etc. and I certainly can’t promise to update while I’m away.  Rest assured, though, that there will be PLENTY to talk about when I return.  Especially marketing, product placement, advertising, social media, basically everything that I love.  Not including food, my traveling adventures, and fashion (which will be saved for my Posterous).  I will be taking plenty of notes (written and mental) with lots of good stuff for when I come back.  Never fear!

Until April 12th! Au revoir!! :) :) :)

If Blogging and Twitter had a baby, it would be Posterous

Recently (by recently, I mean yesterday), I created an account with Posterous. Completely on a whim.  Here’s why.

I follow a whole bunch of Twitter accounts about fashion, New York Fashion Week, style & accessories, etc.  With Fashion Week underway, the tweets are OVERWHELMING…but in a good way.  I don’t think my followers on Twitter appreciate me retweeting every little accessory I think is cute, or what time they can watch the Marc Jacobs runway show live, or anything in between.  But I don’t know enough about the industry to blog exclusively about it.

Enter Posterous.  I’ve found that Posterous is a great in between for Twitter and regular blogging.  A blotter, if you will (blog + Twitter).  I think it’s a great way to post little things about, well, whatever you want. I use mine to post what looks, collections, and/or accessories I love at that current moment in time.

The auto-post integration with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social websites is incredible.  They really do a great job with it.  Lots of options besides the usuals! I also love that you can add a new post from your email- that’s pretty cool and really easy.

Would I use Posterous as a replacement for this blog?  No way.  Posterous doesn’t have as much options regarding customization.  The blog stats on WordPress are pretty good, where as Posterous doesn’t have as many ways to track where people are finding your posts.  But for creating quick posts- nothing that requires too much effort- I think it’s great.  That’s what some people are looking for.

What are your thoughts about Posterous- good in between or not necessary? Should we just stick to Twitter and blogging? Is Posterous here to stay?