Category: 30 day blogging challenge
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Spring Cleaning
30 day blogging challenge is officially over, but I will still post here occasionally anyway. It’s SXSW week for many of my friends and colleagues but I am spending most of this week doing spring cleaning. It’s been such a rotten winter here in Chicago so here “over 30 degrees” equals “spring” and I will…
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Dear PR/Marketing Companies … from a blogger/colleague
I get a lot of weird, inappropriate pitches for my pop culture blog The Learned Fangirl. I could go on forever about the amount of times I get pitches about real estate, online gambling, and snack foods from e-mails that start with “dear blogger…” As someone who also works professionally in online marketing it’s head-smackingly…
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The work/personal identity divide
I’ve been so behind on the 30 day blog challenge here, but I have a good excuse, I think! I’ve been writing a lot for The Learned Fangirland for other places so I feel like I am getting my writing in, but for other places. I wanted to write a bit about an article I…
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New writing!
I have a feature in this week’s Newcity, an interview of Chicago doom metal band Indian. it was a nice challenge for me, writing about difficult music. That new album is ROUGH.
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Slow Social
“Slow Social” isn’t a new concept, but it’s been one that I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately, as I approach my 7th year in social media related work. Social media is a constant rush of information and interaction and burnout comes quick and hard for those who create and consume it. eing slow…
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The NAACP has an app and that seems strange to me
So today I got an e-mail from the NAACP touting their new Image Awards app, and … I don’t get it. I am a big proponent for social TV and I think when it’s done well it is an awesome, interactive experience that makes both viewing and participating online even better, but I don’t quite…
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Misconceptions about Web Analytics #3
One of the most confusing things about web analytics is the fact that depending on the platform and the method of measurement there is NO consistency. So when people say “the numbers don’t lie” in web analytics they can and often do, if you don’t take into account spiders, internal traffic, weblog vs. tag measurement,…
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Please for the love of God, stop calling people in office jobs “rockstars”
If there is a trend I would kill with my bare hands if I could, it is the trend of people in the tech/startup scene calling people who work in the scene “rockstars.” I continually read job descriptions or blog posts about “rockstar coders,” “rockstar social media experts,” or – the thing that set me…
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The Long Goodbye
I’ve been pretty upfront about my desire to leave Chicago for a couple of years now. Chicago is the city of my birth. It’s been very good to me, but I definitely feel like I’ve hit a wall here and I would like to have the experience of absence making my heart grow fonder. This…
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Passion, work, and digital culture
I’m in Savannah now and it’s been awesome. 65 degrees and it’s “cold” Noshing on oysters and drinking great local beer, checking out the great houses and soaking in history. I love southern cities like Savannah and New Orleans. Chicago has a lot of great attributes but it can be a hard city to be…
Keidra Chaney 