Career Advancement Core Conversation at SxSW

December 1, 2009

Back in a post last August, I asked you, my blog readers and twitter followers, to vote for my SxSW proposal: “Forging your Ideal Career”. And you listened! Today I’m very happy to announce that I will be speaking at the 2010 South By Southwest Interactive Festival. As I mentioned back in the blog post, [...]

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Technology and Social Media at NTC

April 30, 2009

Earlier this week I attended at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, CA. As a technologist, I attend several conferences a year (in the past 6 months, I’ve attended the Thin Air Summit, Web Directions North, WordCamp Denver, South By Southwest, and now NTC.) The use of social media and technology at these conferences [...]

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Do you take off when Seth Godin says ‘sprint’?

April 13, 2009

Back in February, Seth wrote a post entitled “Sprint!” in his blog: The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent risk taking or navigating a tricky situation might be to sprint. When we sprint, all the internal dialogue falls away and we just go as fast as we possibly can. When you’re [...]

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Core Conversations at SxSW

March 17, 2009

Sessions at the South By SouthWest conference are classified as keynotes, solo presentations, panels, core conversations, book reading, or trade show events. In my initial planning of sessions to attend, I shied away from the Core Conversations, as I worried that the non-structured format would not offer the insights as more planned sessions. As it [...]

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Runners in the Technology Field

January 13, 2009

I used to run with the Nationwide Running Club. Anyone who worked at Nationwide was welcome to join, but our core group of weekend warriors were primarily technical: a Database Administrator, an IT Officer, a Systems Architect, an Engineer, a GIS Specialist, and a few Actuaries. We were rounded out with a Resource Librarian and [...]

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From iCitizen – May 2008

October 10, 2008

RI_comp_2 Originally uploaded by Resource Interactive I just came across this old photo from the iCitizen conference held by Resource Interactive last May. I’m working the social media cafe, speaking with David Griner and another conference attendee about lifestreaming. We discussed wordpress, tumblr, flickr, twitter and digsby.

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Chicks Digg IT

August 13, 2008

As I mentioned, I’d been speaking with some of my colleagues at Resource Interactive about a pitch for SxSW. Lara Lebeiko had the idea of speaking about women in the IT field. I have my notes from one of our phone conversations, where she said she did not want it to be a feminazi panel [...]

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Chicks Digg IT — SxSW Panel

August 8, 2008

Resource Interactive is throwing an idea into the SxSW panel pool for 2009. I’d been weighing in on the topic, and am now actually listed as the presenter! So go vote! Chicks Digg IT: How Women are Influencing the Future of Social Media Men and women run on different OS. Just as Apple has surged [...]

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PodCamp Ohio Networking

June 29, 2008

As always, some of the best outcomes from an event are a result of the interaction with other delegates. There is something special about a group of actively engaged, newly informed individuals. Going into PodCamp Ohio, I hadn’t been sure about the people I would meet. I wasn’t a podcaster, would I have things to [...]

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Strategies for Blogging and Social Network Marketing: A Case Study (PodCamp Ohio)

June 29, 2008

The final session of the day that I attended was on strategies for blogging and social networking marketing. Some of the content was similar to the viral campaign session I’d attended earlier, I liked the use of the one specific case study to frame their work. Right away speaker Bill Balderaz of Webbed Marketing laid [...]

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