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Read my latest stories for The Wall Street Journal, Passcode, The Harvard Business Review, JSTOR Daily and more.
Five Ways Twitter Can Help You Conquer Distraction
If you were going to design the perfect distraction, you’d probably make it irresistibly urgent, gossipy, and/or funny. You’d design…
How Twitter lists can keep you connected to the relationships that matter most
Happiness in 140 characters: building relationships with Twitter
Cool Stuff My Friends Sent Me This Week
One of the things I love about the Internet is its habit of bringing us little presents. No, I'm not talking about the complete set of Reboot action figures that I purchased on eBay for my retro-animation-obsessed kids. I'm talking about all those groovy little finds...
Introducing App Girl
This is a cautionary tale about the dangers of introducing children to technology. Four weeks ago, it was time for the annual ritual of Hallowe'en costume selection. Most years, I have the energy to make one costume, which means that one kid get storebought and one...
Vancouver Sun list of 100 influential women in BC shows influence beyond Twitter
I woke up this morning to the delightful discovery that the Vancouver Sun included me in their list of BC's top 100 influential women. With company like Alison Lawton, Cindy Lee, Susan Yurkovich, Annabel Lyon, Sarah McLachlan, Meeru Dhalwala, Cornelia Oberlander, and...
Social media for journalists: 10 essential tools
Social media for journalists: 9 feeds for your iGoogle dashboard
Back When Social Media Was Human…
Lisa Barone made my day with an extraordinary blog post, Back When Social Media Was Human… She jumped off from the piece I post this week on the Harvard Business Review site, on The Devolving Meaning of Social Media, and pointed to one particular quote that she...
