Many in the online space remember Heather Armstrong, better known as Dooce, and how she was one of the first people to get fired for their blog. That seemed to be in keeping with the corporate climate then and now, but I’m going to let you in on a little secret: that needs to change. [...]

Topics on Fire, Episode 5: Education and Social Media/Technology on Sunday, September 21st at 11:00 PM Eastern on TalkShoe Tonight’s podcast will be a good one! We’ll be discussing education and new media, social media and technology with Dave LaMorte, John Herman and E. Christopher Clark. I’m hoping to cover a lot of ground in [...]

FaceBook recently made news by starting to delete the user accounts of people who had joined solely for the purpose of playing a game called PackRat. Many are giving FaceBook kudos for deleting the accounts because of the spammy nature of the game, while others are condemning FaceBook for trying to dictate not only how [...]

By popular request I’m starting to offer a new service here at Uptown Uncorked, Individual Mentoring. Authors, musicians, comedians, actors, contractors, bloggers, self employed sole proprietors, or just people looking to figure out the occasionally overwhelming sea of social media sites and applications can now have me help them figure it all out. Think of [...]

It is highly likely that I won’t be able to attend this Sunday’s New Hampshire Media Makers, but I highly recommend you go whether I am able to or not. It is a fabulous group of truly creative and smart people, and you will both learn and be inspired to new levels of creativity and [...]

Part two of the ongoing Social Media for Real World Social Change series is up at Mashable. Go here to learn ways to create a local support network for change.

I have new articles up at Mac.Blorge, Tech.Blorge and Mashable covering DEMO companies, Apple events, Ubiquity for the Mac and a brief commentary on TechCrunch50 vs DEMOFall08. Check them out and let me know what you think. The next piece in the social media for social change series on Mashable should be up shortly as [...]

On Wednesday, 9/17 at 6 PM Eastern you have a chance to hear me talk about how to get your conversation started on Twitter. After that (a short 15 minutes – the presentation equivalent of a Tweet ) we break into random 5 minute one-on-one conversations. Each of you will have 5 minutes with me [...]

The final panel for Episode 4 of Topics on Fire has been set and the topic will be Gender Gap / Technology. Myself (Leslie Poston), Shireen Mitchell of Women Wired In, Leslie Bradshaw (recently featured on CSPAN covering the conventions), Meg Fowler of MegFowler.com (currently helping promote SM4SC.com), Micah Baldwin of CurrentWisdom and Lijit, Chris [...]