Reinventing Yourself

Over the past year I’ve been growing both professionally and personally. It hasn’t been an easy growth and there’s been a lot of learning, reflection and decision making going on. Nearing the end of 2012, I realized that for as much as I was growing, my online identity was no longer akin to who I

PLEs/PLNs…The Modern Day Charlotte’s Web

So this past weekend was my annual vacation to visit my BFF in Minneapolis during the Twin Cities Pride Festival. Now, it’s about an 11 hour drive between Ypsilanti, where I live, and Minneapolis so I had lots of time to think and contemplate things as I drove, grooving to my country music. (Yes country music…the

Back It Up, Back It Up, Back It Up…Guide for First-Time Backchannelers

Two years ago, if you told me that I should backchannel, I would have said I can’t swim. (Get it…backchannel…backpaddle…?…meh). Anyway, now I backchannel everything I can. I’m actually following the #psuweb13 backchannel while I sit here writing this post. 🙂 Backchanneling is a live conversation occurring simulatneously along side an event conference, webcast, etc.

#SATechMI UnConference 2013

What an absolutely amazing day of conference-ing…well unconference-ing. Today I had the chance to attend the first ever #SATechMI UnConference, which was held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Now, you might be wondering “What is an unconference???” Well, like you, until about 2 months ago, I had never heard of one

#SocialMediaFashion

One of the things that I love about social media is the creativity and camaraderie that you experience while using it. Now sometimes this creativity really goes to Timbucktoo and back, but the end product is always worth it. For example, last night, after 30 minutes of hilarious tweeting, @JoshKohnert and I had created our