As a television reporter I loved covering funerals. I know that sounds odd, but I saw it as an extreme honor, one of the final public opportunities to share a person with the world. I covered many funerals: soldiers, police officers, dignitaries. They were usually never people I knew in real life, only people I [...]

Earlier this week I sat in on a webinar from marketing firm HubSpot on the science of timing. A company expert spent years studying the best time to tweet, share, blog and email. Here are some interesting pieces of information I picked up from the webinar: Twitter Later in the day between 2pm-5pmEST is when [...]

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a contest I thought looked cool. The winner gets to travel around the country to different Lilith Fair festivals and report on the events for Degree Women. So I entered by writing a short essay and I just found out I’m a finalist! But in order to win [...]

About a year ago some Twitter users in London wanted to prove that the latest craze in social media was about more than broadcasting to the world what you had for lunch. They wanted to make a difference so the “Twestival” was born. Their first event made huge waves– raising $250,000 for Charity: Water, enough [...]

I was pretty excited to learn that The Debt Hawk ranked me #31 in a list of the Top 100 Personal Finance Bloggers on Twitter. It’s a dynamic list based on the number of followers each person has. The only difference I see is that all of the people in front of me are branding [...]

Belle Magazine recently published my article entitled “Extremely Public Servants.” For the piece I thought it would be interesting to find out how many local and state lawmakers were on Twitter and Facebook. And more importantly, how responsive they are to being contacted through social media. You can read the Belle article here and let [...]