A few years ago I was sitting at the airport in Austin, laptop on lap, writing up some notes from a meeting I had earlier that day at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), the annual technology conference in Austin, TX. I looked up from my laptop to see Chris Brogan standing there looking at me. He said something like, “You don’t look exhausted. … How’d you do that?” Chris was making reference to the fact that SXSWi is a bit of a marathon, and many people only prepare for a sprint.
I told …
In mid-September, I was on board a plane preparing to head to San Francisco for business, when suddenly we unexpectedly had to evacuate the plane. It was very scary and I will add more detail to this post later, but for now, here are my tweets, as I live tweeted the event.
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This winter I decided to have a stay-cation and not travel for the holidays. I did want to travel, but didn’t want to spend the money. So I decided to fill my break with projects I’d been putting off. A few days into the break, I had already finished about half the things on my to-do list. Then came Christmas day. I saw the local Bikram Yoga studio post on Facebook that they’d have classes on Christmas day, so I decided I’d spend my Christmas morning being healthy… then in …
Some of you probably already know about Smokey. She is the cat I started to foster quite a few months ago. I started to volunteer for Lost Dog and Cat Rescue and opened my home up to a cat that had been found shortly after the blizzards in my region. She is 2 years old and very beautiful, but had some obvious behavioral issues when I brought her home. I determined she was front de-clawed (basically because her swatting at me didn’t hurt), but I think because of this she …
This Sunday (2/28/10) is my 10 year anniversary with Gannett Co. I am amazed at how that time has flown by. I have flashes of the jobs I held before Gannett (and there were a few), but I feel my career really began to take shape while at Gannett.
In the decade I’ve worked here, my positions have ranged from IT Manager to Project Manager to Content Manager (and a few others thrown in there), but I’ve always had the same common goal, making a difference. I spent the largest span …
My friend tweeted today about resolutions.
I realized I like the idea of committing to a change rather than making a resolution which seems somewhat abstract.
I have some big life altering commitments I intend to make on New Year’s Eve. I also have some rather simple changes I will promise myself to make.
Life Altering Changes
Ok, that sounds very big. I have been doing some deep introspection lately (a vacation visiting the folks will do that to ya). I think 2009 was crappy. Seriously. So I am trying to evaluate why it …
I read a lot. I probably spend a couple hours a day just trying to keep up with new social media related content out there. I also send out a lot of articles and Tweets to my colleagues, mostly information relevant to projects we are working on, or projects I think we should be working on. Last week, a co-worker asked where do I find all of it. So I thought I would just write a post about what I read everyday (*or almost everyday).
I am not big on my …
