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What Working for PBS Engage Means

June 23, 2008

As the product manager for PBS Engage, the social media initiative of the Public Broadcasting service, I get to work with magnificent people day in and day out to bring social-media to the masses. It’s a very exciting time to be working in social-media, and especially at such a stellar organization.
My one month-iversary at PBS [...]

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How I Exercise My Mind

April 23, 2008

Because I’m constantly connected to real people as well as the Internet it can be difficult sometimes to keep your mind sharp and on focus. I’m not perfect in that regard, that’s for sure. But I do try to keep a fairly clean calendar with important events and conversations. 
In addition to my email and calendar [...]

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A Personal Update

April 19, 2008

Today’s post has two different themes, 1) a change in blog format and 2) my job search.
I wanted to start out by saying that I’ve changed the way things work on here a little. After getting several emails, I re-evaluated having my Twitter updates archive to my blog. I’ve decided that there isn’t very much [...]

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My Ideal Job

April 4, 2008

By way of looking introspectively at my self and my ambitions I have a pretty good idea of my ideal job is at this point. I’ve known for quite some time that being in the service of the public and working toward a greater good is in my blood. My mother was a teacher and [...]

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Recent Facebook Application Launches

February 28, 2008

I recently launched several Facebook applications and thought I’d share them with you. All of them are essentially the same application with different content, they parse RSS feeds from blogs and newsrooms that I work with.

While these aren’t examples of huge viral applications, they have been gaining viewers and interactions day by day. (I might [...]

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Taking Advantage of Your Strengths

February 14, 2008

In the time since I last reformatted my portfolio a lot has changed in the way I see my personal brand. My strengths hadn’t necessarily changed so much as improved. One big improvement was in the way that I used my strengths to enhance my own online portfolio.

In essence, my portfolio is my brand, it [...]

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Solving Problems and Creating New ones

February 12, 2008

This post was inspired by Chris Brogan’s post Problems.
I consider myself not only a problem solver in the traditional sense, but I think I do a good job of taking those problems, and solutions, and making something more out of them. I don’t think that just solving problems is the answer, you have to take [...]

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A New Media Mindset

November 10, 2007

As I progress and increase my knowledge and interest in new-media ventures and the people who work with them I realize more and more about the organizational and staffing problems of companies, especially news organizations who feel threatened by new-media.
I’ve worked with new and emerging media for five years now, and I don’t claim to [...]

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