10 reasons to stop apologizing for your online life

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10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life

July 28, 2010

#thankyoujesus for irl and online friends. Couldn’t live w/o either. Laptop down. It’s IRL Face Time! it was so cool…

5 practices to humanize online communication

July 16, 2010

What does it mean to take online life seriously as real life? Here’s another reason to reject the idea of “IRL” (“In Real Life”) as the opposite of life online. When you visualize the real person you’re about to e-mail or tweet, you bring human qualities of attention and empathy to your online communications. That’s [...]

5 paths to self-discovery online

June 6, 2010

One of the key ways to make your online life more meaningful is to use it as an outlet for self-discovery and self-expression. Here are 5 ways you can use the Internet to get to know yourself a little better.

5 ways to make your time online more fulfilling

July 26, 2010

“I don’t understand how you can spend so much time online. Most of what I see online sickens me.” “Like what?” “Oh you know…porn. Spam. Stupid Facebook quizzes. Endless advertising.” I couldn’t help smiling as this conversation unfolded at the café table next to mine. It’s a conversation I’ve heard all-too-often: less-wired friends condemning the [...]

3 practices that restore the meaning of friendship on Facebook

November 18, 2011

Do you insert audible air quotes when you talk about your Facebook “friends”? If so, it’s time to strip away those air quotes and get serious about your online friends, on Facebook and beyond. That’s part of the commitment to embracing your real online life that I’ll be talking about tomorrow at TEDxVictoria. My TEDx [...]

7 practices to strengthen your online presence

July 19, 2010

True online presence offers opportunities for authentic experience, connection and discovery; opportunities for joy and fulfillment. Practices like meditation, yoga and day-to-day mindfulness help cultivate the capacity for offline presence, so that we live our lives more fully. Now that we live so much of our lives online, we need similar practices for our networked time so that we can integrate our online moments into a meaningful life rather than experiencing them as moments deducted from our “real” lives. Here are some practices that foster online presence.