Taking Some Time Off
Gentle reader; It’s warm and sunny, and I want to go outside and ride my bike. I just graded my last paper for two months, and I feel, in a word, crispy. I need to take some time off. My […]
Is Facebook Making Us Unhappy?
You may have seen this blog post that’s been making the rounds the last couple of days. Basically, some smart folks at the Happiness Research Institute (who knew there even was such a thing??) did a study where they forced […]
Facebook’s Handy New “Save” Feature
A while back, Facebook introduced a new “save” or bookmarking feature. I’ve been playing around with it, and it kind of rocks. It sort of kills me to admit it when Facebook does something right, but with this, they did! […]
Top Posts: 2012
Every year, I like to look back at what I did and put up a post of the top 10 blog posts I wrote last year. This is determined by the amount of hits each post got during the year. […]
Happy Holidays!
Thanks so much for reading, commenting and asking questions in 2011! I appreciate it so much!! I want to wish all of you a very happy Christmas, and a fantastic 2012!
Party for Piper
I don’t often use my blog as a platform for causes, but occasionally, when there a is a cause very close to my heart, I will. I met Kelly-Ruth Mercier last fall, when she was directing Lobby Hero, which I […]
Will You Defy the Law and Tweet About the Election?
Hockey games. The Oscars. Obama’s Inauguration. The Grammys. The Olympics. The Royal Wedding. These are all examples of events that are being “live-Tweeted” as they are going on by thousands of people all over the world as they watch them […]
An Update on Fundchange
Two months ago, I wrote a post on Fundchange, a new Canadian Crowdsourcing application.Well, the other day I got an email from Paul Dombowsky with an update, and I’d like to share it with you. Today Ideavibes, the crowdsourcing and […]
#ArtsVoteCan: How Politicians are using Social Media
I‘ve been asked to do a series of guest blog posts for Canada Arts Connect on the election, and specifically, how it pertains to and affects artists. After repurposing the post I wrote a couple of weeks back for my […]
Why YouTube is Becoming More Important than Ever
My name is Rebecca and I’m a Twitterholic. I’m on Facebook all day. I make no bones about it. And I don’t care what you think. Social media is my world, and I spend most of my day in it. […]