Tag archive for "Social Media"

Blogging, Featured, Social Media

How Social Media and Blogging Can Help You Get a Job

11 Comments 18 January 2012

As I’ve mentioned before, back in September, I went the freelance writer/social media marketing route. It’s been such a rewarding and educational experience. To do what I want to do, finally, for the first time in my adult life has been so incredible. Going freelance has given me the confidence in knowing that I’m capable [...]

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Featured, Social Media

Using Social Media for Hate

12 Comments 17 November 2011

Yesterday, the president of the University of Texas College Republicans, Lauren Pierce, tweeted in response to the shooting at the White House, “Y’all as tempting as it may be, don’t shoot Obama. We need him to go down in history as the WORST president we’ve EVER had!” #2012″. source Obviously that shit didn’t fly well [...]

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20-Something, Blogging, Hipstercrite Life, Social Media

When Good is Never Enough: A Dilemma for the Twenty-Something Blogger

19 Comments 10 November 2011

I switched my blog over to WordPress a little over a month ago and I love it. Well, actually my wonderful web designer did because I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I mean, I could have maybe figured it out but I resorted back to that illogical fear that I’ll somehow make my [...]

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20-Something, Hipstercrite Life, Social Media

How to Become a Social Media Manager

7 Comments 26 September 2011

I mentioned two weeks ago that I finally made the leap from 9-5er to freelancer. I’m still acclimating to the change and trying not to feel guilty about waking up at 9:30AM and working in my underwear. Listen, I know that sounds all wonderful-like and you’re thinking, “Shut your face!”, but I have to figure [...]

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Blogging

What Makes You a Writer?

20 Comments 20 July 2011

When you try to maintain a daily blog, it is easy to lose sight of your other writing goals. Blogging takes a up a lot of time, and if you work a more than full-time job during the day, coming home and writing one blog post is hard, let alone trying to write anything else. [...]

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20-Something, Hipstercrite Life, Social Media

Has Social Media Killed the Need For High School Reunions?

23 Comments 28 April 2011

2011 marks my ten year high school reunion. Gosh, I remember high school like it was yesterday. Hanging out with my closest friends at Denny’s until midnight, making out with Adam on the green shag carpet of my basement, running around the soccer field, practicing my tenor saxophone, writing one-act plays about pan-wielding, Chaka Khan-singing [...]

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20-Something, Hipstercrite Life, Social Media

We Are Squirrels

15 Comments 26 April 2011

spaz Along the same lines of my recent post about Millennials and their work ethic, “The Generation of the Confused Working Class“, here is me going blah blah blah some more about the terrible “problems” my generation faces.  I have the attention span of a squirrel on cocaine. This is a recent development. As a [...]

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Social Media

The Girl Looking for a Connection

10 Comments 22 April 2011

Earlier this week, I happened to catch a tweet from a writer in Minnesota directed at the Austin social media community. The writer had come across a suicide note posted that day by an Austin blogger and was wondering if anyone could help. I clicked on the blogger’s link and didn’t recognize the face she [...]

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