Every Dot Connects

Speaking at Women Who Tech Telesummit on Sept. 15

I’m honored to be included for the third year as a presenter for the Women Who Tech Telesummit on September 15. I’ll be giving one of the 10-minute Lightning Talks that kicks off the event. My session, described below, is a sneak preview of what Jennifer Wojcik and I will present at Blogworld and New [...]

Continue reading...

Does Your Church Use New Media?

A short update I sent yesterday  sparked a small conversation on Twitter and inspired a blog post by Heather Rast, Market Where Your Audiences Are. I tweeted this after receiving this text message from Jon Johnson, pastor of my church: Please don’t forget this Sunday is Food Pantry Sunday. Food is running low and we [...]

Continue reading...

Ford Uses Facebook to Reveal 2011 Explorer

I was raised on General Motors cars; that was my father’s choice of wheels. My first car was a Cadillac–an 8-year-old one that my dad, an automobile dealer, bought for my 16th birthday. it was a behemoth V8 gas guzzler, and I loved to drive it. My current car is a 2002 Ford Focus wagon [...]

Continue reading...

World Sjogren’s Day

Please indulge this off-topic post. It’s an important day for me personally, World Sjogren’s Day. Sjogren’s (pronounced “show-grins”) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes white blood cells to attack the body’s moisture-producing glands. Some four million Americans, 90 percent of them women, are living with Sjogren’s. I’m one of them. There is no cure. Symptoms [...]

Continue reading...

Cause Marketing: H2Orange bottled water launch

I’ve known about this product for a few months and it’s such an exciting idea that it was hard keeping the secret. (But I did!) As an Austinite since age 3, I’ve grown up in the shadow of the University of Texas tower. I’m also a UT graduate, and a lifelong Longhorns football fan. So [...]

Continue reading...