Last Thursday, like thousands of other women from all around the country, I headed to BlogHer ’13 — the leading conference for women bloggers looking to network with their peers and chart a course of growth and development for themselves. To say it was a great experience is an understatement. I went for work, but was also able to find… Read More
Danyelle Little @TheCubicleChick is One of My Social Media Heroes!
It has been a little while since I did a post in my social media hero series, but this weekend I was clearly reminded of one I needed to write up. That’s because Danyelle Little and her Show Me the Blog conference has rocked my world again. Yeah, I know I wrote about the conference ahead of time trying to… Read More
Rethinking My Blog Hosting Strategy & Charting a New Course
When I started blogging a few years ago, I picked WordPress.com for a couple of reasons. I started the blog on something of a whim when I wanted to tell a story that went with photos I wanted to share. I had no idea how many things I’d one day want to rethink. Last year I rethought having two blogs… Read More
Social is the New Normal & I Am On-Board
With the move recently, I have ended up talking to a lot of new people. In the course of conversation, social media comes up pretty often and I am blown away by the number of people who seem surprised to meet someone who is on Twitter or blogs personally, or as a component of work. And I recently met someone… Read More
Are we killing our own enthusiasm for social media?
As I was getting to work Tuesday morning, I happened on this Google+ post by Mack Collier: I had noticed the same thing about people making radical changes in their social media use. I don’t mean the “social media gurus” though I’ve seen shifts there but I mean with my peers, regular people who are very active online. I got… Read More
What Caught My Eye This Week (Ending July 8, 2011)
Rather than doing just photos of the week…. I’m thinking I could put things that caught my eye on here (hence the category “EyeCatchers” LOL). That means photos as well as other things. What made me think of it was coming across a blogger doing a fairly cool series on her blog. And sure I put some of those things… Read More