As I’ve been invited to present to more and more groups, the range of social media, blogging and branding topics, and audiences, has drastically grown. One of my most unique speaking engagements was for an elite group of Memphis high school juniors and seniors who are part of the Memphis PREP Program. A little more…
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“Social Media Made Easy” at Ed Expo 2013
I was delighted to be invited to speak to retailers at NSSEA’s Ed Expo 2013. Ed Expo is an annual trade show for parent-teacher stores. Attendees and exhibitors represent owners of parent-teacher stores in the U.S. and Canada, and representatives from both toy and educational item manufacturers. I had one hour for my presentation plus…
ISACA Memphis Social Media for Business
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak about social media for business to the Memphis chapter of ISACA, a professional organization for Information Systems auditors. Upon initial review, one might wonder, “Social media for IT auditors?”, but it actually makes a lot of sense. All of the auditors present were internal auditors…
How I Avoided Commercials that Sell to my Kids
From early on in our parenting journey, Noggin was our friend. The “It’s like Preschool…on TV” cartoon network ran 24/7, included quality programming that was age-appropriate for our daughter and was commercial-free. When Noggin became Nick Jr. a few years later, nothing changed except for the name. It wasn’t until Kate, our oldest, began preschool…
From Online to Memphis
My personal online journey began with a parenting blog that I set up in 2008 with the sole intention of keeping family and friends informed on our lives since we lived states apart. Since that time, my online footprint has steadily grown – both with blogging and social media in general – and I would say…
Sometimes it’s better not knowing
I awoke the morning of December 7th to snow on the ground and snow falling from the sky. Snow in Memphis, TN is a bit of a novelty and even the mere mention of the chance of snow from a weatherman sends people rushing to the nearest grocery store to stock up like they are…
It’s Time
It’s time for another blog. I still have my parenting and life in general blog, as well as my social media consulting site. But for a while now I have been hankering for a different place to chat about other things. I want to carve out a space to discuss more grown up topics, and write on…
