Every time I speak on Community Management, I hear from folks who are interested in gaining the skills necessary to become a community manager. Let’s face it, we have the coolest job in the world but also the weirdest entry path. How many of us started as volunteers? I know I did 16 years ago. [...]
Helping people with terminal and/or chronic illnesses is something that I’m really passionate about. Since I got my driver’s license, I’ve been an organ donor. I’ve gone to Hershey Medical Center with one of my teenagers who had to get testing for some pretty serious diseases. I lost my grandmother and mom to cancer within [...]
Social media. If you haven’t used it before, it can be intimidating. For example, I’ve been an avid user of Facebook for years. Adding Twitter onto my repertoire of social mediums that I am familiar with was scary! I used to say that Twitter was a “glorified Facebook status” and now, after doing research, I understand [...]
Many of us are familiar with advertising on our blogs. Most of the time these are banner ads on the side or top of our webpages, or pay-per-click methods of earning some money on our sites. Did you know that isn’t the only way for someone to earn a little extra dough on their website? [...]
I started my freelancing career shortly after I finished my Master’s degree in communications. Let me tell you, no matter how much I studied internet writing and blogging, I really didn’t learn how to write online content until I started doing it myself. Finally I got into a routine and stopped sounding like a nerd [...]
I’ve shared before that I love games. Computer games, board games, you name it, I probably enjoy it. Some games I love so much that I’m involved in communities that talk about games. Some of these communities are very generic; others focus on certain companies or even particular games. Usually in these communities are some [...]
They’re the talk of many blogs, websites, and every other kind of internet or free speech advocate. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) have caused a mess in the political realm. Yesterday was SOPA blackout day, where hundreds of blogs, websites, and Twitter feeds fell silent to oppose the controversial bills going [...]
We’ve all seen those silly videos that get posted on our Facebook walls, right? I volunteer with teenagers on a regular basis and almost every time I see them, they’re all excited to show me the newest viral video. Some of them will even post them to my Facebook wall if they can’t wait to [...]
The past few days, I’ve been in class. My class has been about culture and teenagers. I’ve found the whole thing incredibly interesting. And because of being in this class, culture is what’s on my mind. Our culture is probably the one thing that is marketed to us constantly. A worldview where partying, doing crazy [...]
I was an early adopter of Facebook. Facebook came out in 2004, and I was a freshman in college. All of my friends started to get them, and I followed suit. I loved being able to keep in touch with friends with high school and those new friends I was making while in college. This [...]
