Adventures in Aggieland with the TAMU AAF chapter

October 21st, 2009


Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting to the Texas A&M Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, thanks to my dear friend Andrew Haynes. I had a blast – I LOVE interacting with students – and I think they enjoyed it as well. Below is my presentation I gave – on me, what I do [...]

SchipulCon Day 1 Recap

October 15th, 2009


It was a great day of learning at SchipulCon! Our keynote Deirdre Breckenridge and all the other speakers were awesome – and spoke on topics ranging from social media to public relations to Tendenci and Drupal and WordPress to blogging and non profit marketing.  Lots of good stuff! Here are some random favorite moments of [...]

Easy Favicon updating in WordPress – for those of us who are not so technical

September 26th, 2009


This may be easy stuff to those out there for whom databases, coding, file transfer protocol, etc. etc. are easy stuff and not at all slightly frightening. For the rest of the world – even some of us who are well versed in WordPress – the favicon file extension .ico is a bit of a [...]

Social Media – Can it Get you the Job?

May 22nd, 2009


It’s graduation season! Last weekend marked two years since I walked the stage in Reed Arena to take my diploma with my left hand, shake with my right, and look awkwardly in the general direction of the off-stage cameraman. I have several friends graduating soon, and I know a few are still struggling finding a [...]

Twitter rules of thumb … and keyboard.

April 21st, 2009


CONFESSION: I am a woman obsessed.  With Twitter. Ready to join the rest of the class? Photo courtesy of flickr user mallix What The Tweet is Twitter? Defined: Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to post 140 character tweets to the world. Think, Facebook status-sized blog posts. In practice: To me, Twitter [...]