Category: How I Got Here

• May 31, 2010

  Just Because, Peace Corps

  Thank You For My Freedom

  God Bless the fallen and our troops defending our freedom as I write this. Please take a moment to remember and honor all we have to be thankful for. There’s always a contribution to be made. As you know, I am a passionate returned Peace Corps volunteer and AmeriCorps inaugural year volunteer. Find opportunities to…
• September 1, 2009

  ABC, Career, Family, How I Got Here, Innovation, New Media, Social Media, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

  Though the Looking-Glass: What This Social Media Consultant Does

  “What do you do,” asks an unknowing family, one-by-one. I oblige and explain, and yet am asked again, “what do you do?” I guess the better question might be is, what does it mean to have a job on the cutting-edge, where business decisions are made around the increasingly credible idea that social media (formerly…
• August 6, 2009

  Ambition, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, How I Got Here, New Media, Television Journalism

  Pressure To Make An 'Under 40' List

  I don’t know if  it’s the Ivy League over-achiever in me or if I’m simply more competitive by nature than I realize, but I feel strangely panicky about having not made a 40 under 40 as yet. It’s not as though I’ve achieved nothing; I earned the two Emmy noms under my belt… but recognition…
• May 1, 2009

  Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Eastwick Communications, How I Got Here, Podcasting, Social Media, Web 2.0

  Live Podcast: Featured Guest Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism Professor, Dean of Students and Former WNBC-TV Tech Reporter

  [Editor’s note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here…] Those of you who know me know that I don’t scare easily… but today I’m feeling just a tad intimidated. I could not be more pleased to welcome esteemed professor, dean of students and former WNBC-TV tech reporter Sree Sreenivasan to “Break though…
• March 3, 2009

  Events, How I Got Here, Peace Corps, Russian, Turkmenistan

  More Peace Corps. Bigger. Better. Bolder.

  Today is the Peace Corps National Day of Action. It also happens to be the day I finally uploaded some of the many photos from my tour of duty in Turkmenistan. A coinsidence, I think not! The Peace Corps comes up for me on a nearly daily basis. In fact, I spoke on a panel…
• February 23, 2009

  How I Got Here, Peace Corps, Turkmenistan

  Peace Corps Week Kicks Off

  Wow! I can hardly believe it’s been nearly 10 years since I returned from my work as a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in Turkmenistan. Connecting flights in Azerbaijan… ah those were the days.