BlogHer is coming to the Twin Cities! BlogHer Handmade is the one-day social media pre-conference for The Creative Connection. I’ll be moderating a panel called Your Social Media Solar System. Website, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. The social media universe keeps expanding, and most of us swing between thinking we ...
I was asked to sit on the media panel for the April 8, 2011 episode of Twin Cities Public Television’s Almanac, the longest running current events tv show in Minnesota. Also sitting in were my buddy Julio Ojeda-Zapata, tech reporter extraordinaire from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and John Rash of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. ...
My speaking experience at SXSW Interactive 2011 was a success! The presentation went well and was well-received. The entirety of the panel was phenomenal. I saw friends, met people doing cool things, got inspired, and overall had a great time.
My proposed “How to Ensure a Diverse Tech Event” panel got selected for the 2011 South by Southwest Interactive festival. !!! !!! It will be presented as part of a Future15 track. That means I’ll be doing a 12-minute solo presentation. I’m hoping to give this presentation somewhere else next year as well. Preferably somewhere ...
Missy Berggren and Arik Hanson convened the first ever Minnesota Blogger Conference on September 11, 2010 at CoCo coworking and collaborative space in Lowertown Saint Paul. I agreed to present on the topic of generating blog content, and ended up with a presentation entitled Generating Blog Content: Out of Your Ass and Other Surprisingly Useful ...
I was asked to speak about local news and multiculturalism to executives of color recently relocated to the Twin Cities as part of their participation in The Partnership, a program aimed at acclimating and retaining professionals of color who have relocated to the Twin Cities.
I participated in KFAI’s Speaker Series presentation of long-time, award-winning Twin Cities journalist Nick Coleman. I sat on the panel of public affairs programmers in my capacity as an independent self-publisher on the topic of the Twin Cities (aka a cityblogger) for going on five years.