-
-
The Indiepreneur Book Club
connects you to essential reading for growing your small enterprise.
From Instagram
Category Archives: Uncategorized
The View from Austin
Spent all of last week in Austin, Texas for South By Southwest, and it was exhausting, but fun. A few pictorial highlights: I’ve queued up a whole passel of new content (and not just taco reviews, swearsies!). Stay tuned.
Posted in Social Media @ Work, The Work, Uncategorized
Tagged sxsw, sxsw interactive
Leave a comment
Learning Curves
Last night I went to my first “Transmedia” Meetup at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Not familiar with “transmedia”? It’s the somewhat unfortunate catch-all moniker for storytellers who are working across media — so … Continue reading
Time Enough at Last
When I was a young lass, I had my first brush with the concept of “time management.” My mom took me to a Franklin Covey seminar, got me a smart binder in leatherette, and a important training in the principles … Continue reading
This September 11, and that one
Like a lot of people, I had a little trepidation about this anniversary. Ten years ago, I was living on MacDougal and Bleecker, and had a job working on a software project for an educational publishing company on Varick Street. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Positioning Yourself To Stand Out: Or, Where are You on the General/Specific Matrix?
Do you know how to position yourself for maximum success online? Yes, it’s about great content, but it’s also about knowing where you are situated relative to everyone else on the web. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses. An important lesson, … Continue reading
Have you hugged a designer today?
I’ve said this before, I’m a writer. I use words to get at what I mean. But what about when words fail? When a situation is too complex to adequately describe? What do you do then?
The difference between translating print to the web and reimagining it in new form
Couple of things this week and last got me thinking anew about the frustrating/invigorating task of reimagining publishing for the web. The first was this piece in the New York Observer about Conde Nast’s woes in fulling immersing themselves in … Continue reading
FREE Event Alert 7/20! The One-Hour Website for Nonprofits: Boostrap Your Next Online Initiative
FREE event alert: on Wednesday July 20th, from 6PM to 8PM I’ll be presenting The One-Hour Website: Bootstrap Your Next Online Initiative with WordPress for 501 Tech NYC, a terrific professional group of people involved in technology and nonprofits. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, DIY, How-to, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, Small Business, Small Events, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, Uncategorized
Tagged 501 Tech NYC, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New Directors/New Films, New York Film Festival, nonprofits, WordPress
Leave a comment
Learning the hard way
I learned about making films not through film school (though I’m a graduate of NYU’s) or Wikipedia, but the hard way. I mean, the working 18-hours a day for basically no money way. I mean the living the circus life … Continue reading
