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A new blog & another one launching soon — here’s an ebook in the meantime.

August 31, 2011 by that damn redhead · 3 Comments

Two Things:

The other night I was weeding through my files on my hard drive and found a project I forgot about — it was a little ebook based on this post I wrote way back in 2009, wherein I compare water skiing and social media, and what you can learn about both. It was about 75% finished, so tonight I finished it. It’s short, a very quick read. I know I mentioned I was tired of writing about social media, but this was already written. I just compiled it into an ebook “just because.” So here, enjoy:

Social Media Lessons from Water Skiing (and Vice-Versa)

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Another blog?

Also, I mentioned a long time ago that I was going to be publishing some of my writing elsewhere on the web, and I’ve been writing a lot and stocking up on stuff to publish, which is sort of one reason why it’s taken so long. (That, and because I’m just a really bad procrastinator when it comes to my own stuff.)

Anyway, I’ve had some crazy stuff happen in my life, and I’ll be publishing stories about many of these things that actually happened over at thisactuallyhappened.posterous.com … so head on over there if you’re so inclined. The first post is up, and it’s about sushi, stripping, and Indian food. All names are changed to protect the guilty parties, and I must warn you that while nothing is (or ever will be) “NSFW,” I don’t recommend your kids read that blog. Any and all feedback is appreciated, and no, that is NOT a “professional” blog by any means (like I had to clear that up). Consider it as me just showing a different side of my writing.

… and yet, another one on the way!

OH by the way — I made a New Year’s resolution to finally get my damn music blog off the ground. Life got in the way, then I reconsidered, then I put it off, and put it off … and I’m sure that by now, many people are doubting that I’d ever actually launch it. Well, guess what? IT WILL BE UP SOON. Like, very soon. For realz. So go on over and bookmark that damn music blog now, and I’ll let you know when it’s up. Got stuff in the hopper, finalizing an editorial calendar, etc… just have a few final things before v1.0 finally lifts off. (It won’t be as pretty as I want it, but I’ve got someone working on that.)

As for this blog, I’ll be writing here from time to time about technology-related things, but my energies are going to spent on those two plus a couple other projects I’ve got going on behind the scenes. But I’m not shutting this blog down, I’m just shifting my attention elsewhere.

OK, so that was more than two things. Ah well.

Anything in particular you’d like to read here (or thither, or yon)? Let me know.

kthxbai

Filed Under: Blogging, personal, Social Media · Tagged With: Blogging, ebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Social Media, Water skiing, writing

I don’t really believe in “New Year’s Resolutions” . . .

January 2, 2011 by that damn redhead · 5 Comments

. . . but now seems as good a time as ever to revive this damn blog from the dead.

I acknowledge that I haven’t written here since August, and letting it die wasn’t exactly intentional, it just sort of happened. Life happens when you’re not blogging, just as life happens when you leave off the hashtag. I’ve wanted to write, but it seemed I never had time, and when I did have time, I didn’t have any energy or interest because my blog was the last thing I wanted to think about.

Really, though … this thing has always been on my mind, and if I’d have blogged half as much as I thought about blogging, I wouldn’t be blogging this now. (Ridiculous, isn’t it?)

Anyway, the past year I’ve struggled with what to do with this thing, and I can’t say I’ve really got any definite answers but I’m just going to see where it takes itself. I have a couple requests of posts to write from friends/readers, a Moleskine of scribbles of ideas, and hear things like “you should really blog about that” in conversation with friends/colleagues on a regular basis . . . so yeah, I’m getting the hint that I need to get my ass in gear and make time to just do this, for Pete’s sake. (To this day, I don’t know who “Pete” is that we’re referring to there.)

It’s also been suggested to me on many occasions that I should start a more niche blog for my music writing, and get more into that. I’ve been in talks with some music blog/publication folks in past months to do some collaboration on that front, but nothing has materialized yet because I can’t seem to make a frickin’ decision. I’m not against either idea, but would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

So . . . no, I’m not dead (if you follow me on Twitter, you’d know that), I’ve just been busy and unorganized, for lack of better excuse. Anyone who knows that damn redhead knows she can’t stay silent for long, so consider this a head’s up (warning?) that I’ll be back to the blogosphere soon.

Oh, and Happy New Year!

/stacy

P.S. Completely off-topic and shameless plug: If you’ve got any interest in location-based services and/or augmented reality, a presentation of mine from a webinar I did for work was just featured on Slideshare. Enjoy.