Looking for a way to create e-cards then share them online? Smilebox lets you create cards–complete with photos, music and/or video–then post to your blog or your Facebook page. If only they had a Twitter application, it would be perfect. You can create and share cards for free (preceeded by a short ad) or pay […]

*Disclaimer: I work for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); however, this is my personal blog in which I express my own thoughts and opinions.* A few weeks ago I blogged about my experience of being among 12,500 members at my association’s annual convention, and their reactions to our budding social media activities. I work in […]

Just stumbled on the coolest thing EVER: Wordle. Wordle is “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” It gives you a graphical representation of whatever text you provide: you can enter text or specify the url for a blog or particular post. It’s like the interpretive dance version of your blog! […]

Ok, I’ve kept my mouth shut long enough–I was not going to blog about this because it would probably mean I’d never see my free cloud computer, but at this rate it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anyway. I’m sacrificing my potential blogging mother lode–free computer in exchange for promoting it via social […]

About a month ago I blogged about my horrible experience with Sprint’s Samsung Instinct phone. At about that same time, my blog got accepted for inclusion on Alltop, an “online magazine rack” in the form of an RSS aggregator classified by topic (mine is in the social media category). Awesome–I thought–finally I might actually get […]

Last week there was a discussion on one of my listservs about “real” journalists as opposed to bloggers; e.g. only journalists are credible resources. Naturally, I disagreed. Whether or not bloggers are journalists in the traditional sense is becoming a moot point because “citizen journalists” are now considered by many to be just as respected […]

Apparently Martha Stewart has decided that blogging is a good thing, because she has jumped into the blogosphere with The Martha Blog: Up Close & Personal. Ever the marketing whiz, she is having a blog contest–add your blog to the comment section of her blog and she will check it out and, if you’re chosen […]

I’ve really tried hard these past three days to be patient and learn to love my new Samsung Instinct. What’s not to love, right? The phone supposedly kicks the iPhone’s ass–faster download times, voice to action, more memory for the price, etc. etc. According to Sprint’s own ads, of course. This video tells a different […]

If I knew how to make a video, this would be a video post. Since I don’t, use your imagination: Pan to a kitchen where a guy is sitting at a table in his boxers, eating cereal and working on his laptop. Suddenly the door opens and a bunch of people walk in. Guy looks […]

I read this post about the importance of remembering to bring business cards to business and social functions and was surprised neither the author nor any of the commenters knew about Dropcard. I may not be the most eco-friendly person on the planet, but I do hate paper and try to have as little of […]