Writing

I've always been a writer--professionally, in the early days--and then as an avocation, on the side. Currently I blog regularly at Susan Mernit's Blog and am a contributing editing with weekly posts for BlogHer on Sex and Relationships. In an earlier life I wrote features for magazines and for the living section of the NYTimes.

I am definitely interested in interesting writing gigs, particularly paid opportunities around women in tech, business, commentary.

Some favorite pieces I've written in the past year:

Huffington Post: Social Media Must Haves for the Recently Laid Off

SMB: Losing Jerry Yang: Why CEO's departure reflects how Yahoo! has been broken
SMB: What I want from Friend Feed
SMB: 5 months on Facebook: Observations of Value
SMB: The Battle over Bundling: Ten Top Sources and more (aka RSS & copyright)

Favorites from BlogHer, where I've built up quite a backlog of relationship pieces:

Joined, not merged: Keeping a room of one's own
How can I ditch thee? Let me count the ways
The Cheap Date & 15 ways to have fun ones..without feeling like a cheapskate
I don't want to get married. Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt(and the kid)
The end of innocence & making it big: The NYTimes spins yet another lost girl tale of innocence, regret and discreetly hot sex
Sex for fun: do you play that or not?
Love Happens, Or from Casual to Comitted, Trying it All Again
My love for Patty Smith: Or, sex, gender, androgyny and freedom
On dating younger men
(more people have read this than anything else on blogher that I have written. Why? It is the number 2 link on google for dating younger men (LOL)
Not choosing monogamy, why exclusivity doesn't matter

I am also proud of this talk on blogging, sexual identity and privacy Viviane and I did at Arse Electronika: Avoiding the Emily Gould Effect: Blogging, transparency & oversharing.
I was once a dedicated poet, and after not writing for many years, started writing again.You can see some of the old poems and an essay online. Still hoarding the new poems.

Selected Poetry

What it feels like to write poetry again -- http://www.blogher.com/what-it-feels-writing-poetry-again-after-15-years

Some journalism pieces, including one I wrote in media bistro bootcamp after I got laid off from AOL and was wondering if I could still do reporting:

OJR: Kevin Sites and Blogging controversy

The Digital Edge, Newspaper Association of America, and the Online Journalism Review as well as guestblogging at Morph and Engadget.

Looking for more writing gigs, let me know if you have ideas.

I also have a number of pieces I have written as part of my consulting practice and social media life:

Social media for social change, We media paper--the brief on using social media for social change, commissioned for the We Media conference, Feb 2009,
ifocos_wm_socialmedia.pdf

Social Media for Social Causes, detailed case studies of Knight News Challenge, Women Who Tech Telesummit and Twestival for charity: water, done for We Media, March 2009
309 full social media for social causes white paper.pdf
Basic tools for online media, What you need to get started, Feb. 2009, basics for small online news sites
Basic tools for online media.pdf
The social media tool box: Essential tools, tips and framing strategy, white paper for Knight community foundation conference, Feb. 2009
THE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOL BOX.pdf
Building your brand through social media, preso done for The Maynard Institute and redone many times since Feb. 2009
March 2009 build yr brand thru social media.pdf
Women and the dynamics of social capital, w/Deanna Zandt, done for WAM! as a social media workshop framer, March 2009
socialcapital-socialmedia-090328095213-phpapp01.pdf
Glossary for twitter terms: the basics, March 2009 for WAM!
glossary for twitter terms.pdf
Getting started with Twitter, why take the leap, Maynard workshop, March 2009 Getting started with Twitter--and why you should take the leap.pdf

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