BlogHer has become a big deal, with 3,000 visitors expected between yesterday’s kick-off and tomorrow’s finale. DeVries PR offers some tips for those attending the San Diego event, to help from getting too overwhelmed. PepsiCo is also trying to make things a little more intimate, taking some activities off the show floor to smaller settings.

According to Jamie Stein, director of digital initiatives at PepsiCo, the company has a variety of brandcentric happenings planned like a Quaker pod off the show floor where folks can taste a new Chewy granola bar and a Trop50 CSR program with E! host Giuliana Rancic to support free school breakfast programs. “These women are important to us and to our long-term success,” Stein said.

BlogHer is also making news because of findings about young children and their use of smartphones.

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PepsiCo's Jamie Stein and E!'s Giuliana Rancic in a WIN video.

PepsiCo‘s Women’s Inspiration Network (WIN) will be at SXSW to capture footage and talk about digital trends with female influencers. WIN is also sponsoring the Digitini 2011: Women’s Inspiration Awards at the conference.

“It’s about engaging women, being informative and fun,” said Jamie Stein, director of digital initiatives at PepsiCo, which launched WIN at the Social Media Week conference last month. WIN offers video content (Stein says they’re “open to other formats as well”) on issues of importance to women. According to Stein, female-targeted initiatives have been executed on a brand-level in the past, but now PepsiCo has taken it to the corporate and cross-brand level.

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