Today is Blog Action Day, and the theme is poverty. As I went on my errands I thought a bit about what I wanted to write when I got home. I woke up in my warm house, sick with some kind of hacking flu type thing and complaining about having to bundle up to take [...]

One of my favorite people that I’ve had the pleasure of working with is Jim Keenan from Cre8Buzz. Jim, his wife, and their business partners had the dream of creating a social network that was driven by user generated content. In a way, they succeeded. Over time time their labor resulted in the birth of [...]

Can social media and social advertising help us find a way out of this economic turbulence? I think they can. I wrote about my opinion on social advertising and the new definition of ROI on Mashable today. Advertising, ROI

Last night was Part Two of the Gender Gap and Technology/New Media Episode on my podcast Topics on Fire. Panelists for the show were myself, Leslie Bradshaw, Jen Nedeau, Meg Fowler and Shireen Mitchell. On the first episode, we had Chris Brogan, Aaron Brazell and Micah Baldwin offering the male perspective as we hammered out [...]

Brief after show recap: This was a great episode where we got some major goals accomplished. I will be writing a full recap tomorrow here. Meanwhile, I encourage you to listen to the podcast and join the resulting Strong Women in Tech campaign network as well. The final panel for Episode 6 of Topics on [...]