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About Me

I have made a career of riding technology waves, including cold type (typesetting with computers), the personal computer, desktop publishing, internet, web, email and social media.

I help organizations select and adopt new technologies to connect with their customers, prospects, employees, stakeholders, champions and communities. Firecat Studio sets them up with web sites, email platforms, twitter, facebook, linkedin, myspace, youtube, blogs.

Location:
United States, San Antonio, TX
Current organization:
AIR San Antonio
Past organizations:
Austin Free-Net, Susan Price & Associates, Social Media Club, Firecat Studio
Current role:
Interactive Agency Owner
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Content Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Social media for social good, marketing, communications, writing
I am:
Blogger, Change Agent, Consultant, Designer, Idea generator, Marketer, Parent, Social entrepreneur, Web guru, Writer/Editor
Languages:
English
My website links:
Journey2Fitness, Firecat Studio - Web Strategy San Antonio, Firecat Studio Blog
Universities:
University of Texas at Austin
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I'm passionate about

Coworking, collaboration, innovation, and using technology to facilitate authentic connections and communication. We're co-creating a brave new online world, and I'm engaged in making it fine.

An idea worth spreading

I would like to help develop a "Human Communications API" -- a set of specifications that communications technology can follow and support to make it easier for us to get the information and messages we want - and NOT be so inundated by the flood of messages we don't want.

i believe we are adapting to use "Attention Deficit" behaviors in order to cope with the relentless flood of incoming stimuli. Technology architects and designers can and should give users more control over the messages coming at them.

Talk to me about

Strategic use of online technologies to make authentic connections. Blogs, wikis, eNewsletters, websites, chat, eMails, webinars - when to use which, why, and how to keep content fresh and compelling.

People don't know that I'm good at

Seeing situations from multiple perspectives, such as seeing problems from all sides in order to make sense of a situation. Sequencing tasks for maximum desired effect. Paddleball. Guitar Hero.

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    A comment on Conversation: We need a political party devoted to maximizing the value of people's TIME.

    Feb 16 2011: I agree that we need to fundamentally change the benchmark for valuing people and institutions. Time is a good one. I think time is particularly valuable to TEDsters because most of us have enough money and basic needs met.

    Time by itself wouldn't do it; people also need freedom to pursue happiness, the ability to choose what we do with our time. Again, in our society, money tends to solve that problem to a large extent. But I believe we're at risk of losing some of the freedoms we now enjoy.

    The benchmark or bottom line I hunger for is responsibility - maximizing choice while helping ensure that people are responsible for their actions. I celebrate the increased access to information and transparency that internet technology has produced, and worry about attempts to tamp down, limit, or thwart it.

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