About

Bloggers in Sin City isn’t your ordinary blogging conference – it’s the ultimate unconference, specifically tailored to personal bloggers and social media enthusiasts. This event brings the online world offline by using outlandish fun to build powerful, lasting relationships between bloggers and their networks. Here at BiSC, we know that online is great, but offline is better, and we’re out to prove that truly magical things can happen when 60 fun, friendly, and uniquely creative people all come together for 4 mind-blowing days.

Spoiler Alert: You won’t find any panels or keynote speakers at Bloggers in Sin City – this isn’t that type of party. You won’t find meals served in boring conference rooms or parties held in over-crowded hotel ballrooms, either. And you certainly won’t find any dry or generic sponsorship interaction. At Bloggers in Sin City, we recognize that a personalized, custom experience is key. By capping our event at 60 bloggers, we ensure a uniquely VIP experience for each of our attendees, vendors, and sponsors from start to finish.

Every single second of Bloggers in Sin City is a reflection of the value we place on fun, friendship, and open communication. It’s a social experiment that gets bloggers together, letting them freely geek out day after day, and seeing what happens. Want relaxed laughter and nonstop fun? This is the event for you. Want an unprecedented chance to build lasting, mutually fantastic relationships with bloggers and brands that continue long after our 4-day event is over? 

“Bloggers in Sin City is the blogger’s version of Burning Man: an annual spiritual growth, wrought with adventure, laughter, and new friendships.” — @nicopolitan

“This was the best, most amazing experience I’ve had in my life. I’m so glad I stepped out of my comfort zone and pushed all of my fears and anxieties out of the way, because I can’t believe what I would have missed out on. I loved the atmosphere of the whole event and how much it felt like we were a family by the time we left.” – @kelalea

Meet The BiSC Team

Founder & Lead Organizer | Nicole Antoinette | @nicoleisbetter

Nicole Antoinette founded BiSC back in 2009 to bring creative & wonderful people together and prove that online is great, but offline is better. In addition to being the ringleader of the BiSC circus, she also co-owns Shatterboxx, the boutique design firm responsible for the magic of this website. Next month, she and her lovely business partner Jamie Varon will be releasing their first iPhone app, Paper’d, and are poised to take the mobile world by storm by offering deliciously addictive wallpapers that let you express who you are and what you love. On the personal side, Nicole writes about her philosophy of “a life less bullshit” over at nicoleisbetter.com and can usually be found cooking and recipe testing for her food blog, Get This In Your Mouth. Also, yes, she knows she talks really ridiculously fast. You’ll get used to it, promise.

Web Designer | Jamie Varon | @jamievaron

Jamie Varon is the other half of both Shatterboxx and Paper’d, and she just recently got back from a yearlong stint in Paris, where she attempted to speak Frenglish and ate all the pastries there were. She’s sorry that, if you go to Paris, there are no pastries left for you now. As the pixelated pioneer behind the entire portfolio of Shatterboxx websites, Jamie has crafted a unique style that, when combined with her killer eye for typographic perfection, truly earns her designs their cautionary label of “warning: may cause designgasm.” Jamie spends most of her time thinking of iPhone wallpapers she can design for Paper’d and, more importantly, how to one day travel the world flying first class while sipping on champagne and then staying in luxury design boutique hotels. She, clearly, doesn’t have expensive taste. No, definitely, not at all.

Rachael King | @rachaelgking | Sponsorship Strategist & Brand Ambassador

Rachael King is a social media strategist, community manager, Gen Y blogger, and President of Social Media Club – DC. She’s currently traveling the country, speaking to and teaching the 54 states and territories of the National Guard how to use social media as a marketing and recruitment tool with the interactive marketing agency iostudio. She unabashedly adores karaoke and french fries of all shapes and sizes, and would love to get a drink while snarkily people watching with you.

Doniree Walker | @doniree | Sponsorship Strategist & Brand Ambassador

Doniree Walker is a food and lifestyle blogger and social media consultant. Her blog is a not-so-structured account of her life as learned through yoga lessons, sporadic photography, and a constant quest to strike some sort of a work/play balance. Originally from Minnesota, Doniree now lives in Portland, Oregon where she’s into yoga, is training for her first half-marathon, spends her summers at outdoor happy hours, and spends winters hibernating from the rain by watching How I Met Your Mother and drinking lots of red wine. Doniree loves vanilla lattes, flaky croissants, leg warmers, and tulle in bright, vivid colors. She believes in champagne with breakfast (because every day is cause for celebration) and living with intention.

BiSC Photographer | Rachel Gallagher of Hello Gorgeous Photography | @racheliza

Rachel is a born and raised Jersey Girl. All she needs to get by is her well broken-in beach chair and her toes in the sand, and the fact that people vacation where it snows sort of freaks her out. She’s at her happiest surrounded by good friends, digging her toes into the sand, listening to a little Marley with her camera close by. She doesn’t believe that old saying “good things come to those who wait,” and believes that good things come to those who want something so bad, they can’t sit still. A wedding and portrait photographer and owner of Hello Gorgeous Photography, Rachel has the self-proclaimed best job in the world.