Have you gone to the movies lately? I am obsessed with going to movies and go pretty much once a week, if not more often. Anyway, if you go as often as I do you’ve probably been subjected to many different versions of the “Don’t talk during the movie!” message. How about the one where […]
Social Media for Old People
I remember being 16 (um, I mean 21) going to shows in DC and smirking at the “old” people lurking like they had any business hanging with a bunch of teenagers. How pathetic, my friends and I would say—don’t they realize they are OLD and don’t belong here? It just seemed so depressing that they […]
Where does the Bloggosphere Intersect With the Real World?
Every day my inbox is packed with articles about the latest and greatest in SEO, social marketing trends, seminars announcements, new book promotions and tons of information about web communications, marketing and development. In just over a year’s time I have gone from knowing next to nothing about any of this stuff to knowing plenty. […]
The Expert’s New Clothes
I was trying to explain something to my daughter in terms of the classic tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Having not read it in many a year, I was improvising, telling her it’s a story about an Emperor who’s not wearing any clothes but announces that he’s wearing some really fancy suit or something. Everyone […]
Why Blog?
I’m not going to let this article shatter my “write about nothing and eventually it will magically result in some kind of money-making windfall” theory. Minutes after I read that article, this showed up in my inbox (I subscribe to David Meerman Scott’s blog, Webinknow). Just as I wrote about Mimi Smartypants in my personal […]
SEO for nonprofits
A quick word about me, by the way, versus “real” commercial writers or actual experts. While I would love to someday be able to call myself a self-supporting freelance writer or actual expert in anything, right now I have a regular desk job and am not really an expert on anything other than internet searching. […]
Mizz Information?
My other blog, Motherwhatnowredux, is named after a psychadelic little doll made in 1969, Mother What Now. The title Mother What Now (The doll’s package read: “The Downsy Frazzled Mom and her Go-Getter Car”)–was what I thought to be a very clever combination of my love for kiddles and my former SAHM life in which […]
New Direction
I’m often been told by friends and co-workers that I can find anything. It started when I was a kid and could find anything as in literally find things–e.g. misplaced objects. There have only been a handful of times in my entire life when I’ve not been able to find something I or someone else […]