a colorful adventure

Recently, my friend Cheri Albritton (Twitter’s @ArveyColumbus) wrote a blog post asking if you are a social media hero in the making. She was nice enough to point to me in her post. That was awesome to see pop up in my email! I decided to do at least a short series of posts highlighting [...]

After a week on the road, I got home on Saturday night. I had an incredible time with the family I was born into and extended family we’ve chosen. We had a big crowd with us and had a great time at the church camp I had grown up going to…. We rent it out [...]

With the move recently, I have ended up talking to a lot of new people. In the course of conversation, social media comes up pretty often and I am blown away by the number of people who seem surprised to meet someone who is on Twitter or blogs personally, or as a component of work. [...]

I know that I am going to post too much about the #140conf small town. Afterall, I have already posted on it multiple times (accepted to speak, pumped about it coming soon, the cool space night….) and there will be more. But I wanted to explain why I am so excited over something like this [...]

As I was getting to work Tuesday morning, I happened on this Google+ post by Mack Collier: I had noticed the same thing about people making radical changes in their social media use. I don’t mean the “social media gurus” though I’ve seen shifts there but I mean with my peers, regular people who are [...]

I know I’ve already written about how excited I am to be going to Hutchinson, Kansas for 140 Conference Small Town, but it’s upon me and the excitement is overflowing so I have to write again.   While I remember being in other towns in south central Kansas, I don’t think I ever went to Hutchinson [...]

Last week was a rare one for me. I had the chance to really soak up some social media buzz not once but twice. And some of it was a third time! What could be important enough to spend that sort of time getting my head around it? With my recent job change, I’ve different [...]