Promote Your Business "Like" Contest Winner: Artistic Bend

Tulika of Artistic Bend will be showcasing her jewelry at the expo!  She is the winner of Meylah's Promote Your Business "Like" contest.  Tulika got 101 Likes on Facebook on her celtic charm earrings which won her a table at the expo.  

Meylah is doing a great job in aiding small businesses in connecting to the ever changing world of the web through their easy to use interface and free basic tutorials like this one.

Below is Tulika's testimonial on how Meylah has helped her become more tech savvy:

"Meylah has made me so savvy I would say. I WAS a person who was happy just checking emails and once in a while writing a blog. I always loved the way my friends monetized on their blogs about different things. For me there was a gap between doing it and not. Meylah helped me bridge that gap and the reluctance. Meylah made me look at myself as a person who could do it without feeling overwhelmed. I am doing pictures for my products and shipping them on a regular basis. It has helped me build my brand image. Meylah has preserved my hobby and yet helped me convert it into a business without making it like a job. I simply love it and love growing in both areas, technically as well as in my art. I was scared that once it became a job, it would not be fun anymore nut I was wrong."

Keep up the great work guys!

Mobile App: Flick+Share

Flick+Share is an app developed by Cloud 8 Studios.  It makes sharing photos on your Windows 7 phone a cinch - or should I say, a flick!

It's easy to use:

If you're in Seattle next weekend, drop by their booth and say hello to them at the expo!

Fashioningtech.com: Where Fashion Meets Tech

Fashioningtech.com is the perfect site for the techie fashionista. It features wearable technology, fun DIY tutorials, photos, videos, and more! I love perusing spunky new designs and crazy ways technology is being integrated into the fabric of our lives - definitely fashion forward to say the least!

The brains behing Fashioningtech.com is Syuzi Pakhchyan. A little bit about Syuzi:

"Syuzi is an experience designer whose work investigates the intersection between code, cloth and culture. Her design and research interests include wearable technologies, physical and soft computing, and interactive textile design. 

Her book "Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting" explores the emerging creative practice of soft circuits and soft technologies."

Some fun things I found on the site.

{DroidDare: Mocktail Making Dress}

{Soft Circuit DIY Kits: Salt n' Peanut Tutorial}

So techie and cute!

Fashion Showcase: electricfoxy

Jennifer at electricfoxy is piecing together fashion and technology one stitch at a time.  She currently has two gorgeous garment designs that integrate technology with fashion: zip & ping.  We're so excited she'll be showcasing her garments at the expo!

About Zip

"Zip is a garment that connects to your phone or music player and allows you to control it simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear. In this case, zip up to increase the volume, zip down to decrease it, and tug on the pullstraps to retract the integrated earbuds. Enjoy your music experience without all the devices and wires hanging all over you."

ZIP from Dos Rios on Vimeo.

About Ping

"Ping is a garment that connects to your Facebook account wirelessly and from anywhere. It allows you to stay connected to your friends and groups of friends simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear. Lift up a hood, tie a bow, zip, button, and simply move, bend and swing to ping your friends naturally and automatically. No phone, no laptop, no hardware. Simply go about your day, look good and stay connected."

Love the seamless integration. ;)

Expo Vendor: IL*MOSTRO

We love Frances' robot banks.  When we saw them on Etsy we HAD to have them at the expo.  Aside from the fantastic geeky and nerdy designs she has available on her online shop, she also does custom orders.  These banks make really fun, personal gifts.  Perfect for grads and dads!

For the expo, Frances has graciously agreed to make a special Seattle bank as a contest prize.  

Contest details to come soon!

Heart it!

Silent Auction Vendor: Hooby Groovy

Thanks so much to Ee-Leng from Hooby Groovy for donating three of her ultra cute cases for the Happy Go Techy silent auction - all proceeds will go to NPower Northwest!  Come to the expo to bid and go home with one of these cases while supporting a good techie cause!

{1UP iPad2 Case}

{Goomba iPad 2 Case}

{Panda iPhone Case}

Visit Ee-Leng's blog here and her store here.

Mobile App: MapBox

"MapBox makes it easy to design beautiful custom maps, and fast to integrate them into websites and mobile applications. Whether you want to visualize census data in Chicago, monitor seismic activity in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake, plot drone strikes in Pakistan, or analyze election results in Afghanistan, MapBox will help you make more sense of your data."

MapBox radically lowers the barrier to entry for making custom base maps and overlays. Now data analysts can become mapmakers without GIS expertise, and GIS experts can become cartographers without first mastering design."

{How To Video}

Beautiful, functional, and fun! 

We love it! Come to the expo and drop by their demo table!

NPower Northwest

When we were first piecing together our initial thoughts for the expo, a lot of things were up in the air, but one thing we did know is that we wanted to be able to give back to the community somehow.  It was hard choosing a nonprofit that we were truly excited to work with.  We really wanted to help out a nonprofit that embraced technology in a big way and has the same attitude and passion for technology as we do.  We found it!  It's a match made in heaven; Happy Go Techy is pairing up with NPower Northwest to raise funds for their cause!

NPower Northwest is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits utilize technology to its highest potential - how awesome is that?!  They're "guided by the belief that technology can transform the nonprofit sector and play a pivotal role in creating greater good." 

 

Admission for the expo is free, however, 100% of the suggested donation ticket sales will go to NPower Northwest and their mission to help other nonprofits!  Register now!

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Expo Vendors & Mobile Apps!

The expo is getting close.   So excited!

We've published a list of vendors and mobile apps that will be showcasing the expo.  Take a peek and tell your friends!

Happy day to you all!  

MindMeister: Mind Mapping Software

In elementary school when I first started learning how to write essays, I remember I hated the format of outlines.  They were linear and boring - just didn't work for me.  Eventually, in 5th or 6th grade we learned how to make mind maps (I don't remember what they were called back then) - mind maps presented information in a way that was much more easy to visualize and in which connections could be made more intuitively between all the "bubbles of thought."  Problem was... there was never enough space on a small 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.  Once again,  stifled creative thought due to technical limitations!

You can imagine my enthusiasm when I grew up and discovered MindMeister a few years ago!  An online mind mapping tool that not only allows you to visually gather your thoughts, it also lets you do things like add icons, pictures, and links as references. And, they have a mobile app as well!  We're so excited to announce that we will be showcasing their app at the expo. Not only that - Mindmeister has gifted us 100 subscriptions as expo give aways.  Stay tuned to learn how you can get one!

Check out an example of a MindMeister map below:

Handmade Spark Give Away Winner: Rogue Theory

{6th Generation Nano Cases}

I've been admiring Rogue Theory's cases & covers for a while now.  So happy they've been chosen as  the winner of the Handmade Spark & Happy Go Techy vendor package give away.  

See more of their designs here.

Thanks Handmade Spark for connecting us!

Mobile App Demo: Hmmm...

DreamTimeStudioZ will be demoing their new app at the expo - so excited!  :)

They will demoing Hmmm..., a social version of their current app, HearMarkZ.  HearMarkZ is "the ultimate memory app, (iPhone and iPod touch 2G) is an iPod enhancement app that creates an unlimited number of bookmarks AND text/audio notes for any kind of audio recording in your iPod library: audio books, podcasts, songs, seminar recordings, and more."

Come to the expo to check it out and learn more!