When a City Gets to Heal: The Downtown Project and Entrepreneurship in Las Vegas

April 2, 2013 in Other Than That - news, business & other nonsense, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

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Finding Passion in Serendipity or How a Trip to Vegas Changed My Life

December 30, 2012 in Other Than That - news, business & other nonsense | Comments (0)

It was unexpected. That I would come to Vegas at all on my own volition in and of itself was an unusual thing. That I chose to do so in the summer, which is akin to stepping onto the surface of the sun, was downright...

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We Interrupt this Series … for SXSW 2013

August 13, 2012 in News & Events | Comments (3)

In the spirit of supporting the amazing people I know who have proposed some great content for SXSW 2013, I’m interrupting my Zappos & Downtown Project Adventure Blog Post Series to bring you a great laundry list of sessions for which you just have to...

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The SXSW 2012 Cattle Call: Panel Picker Voting Enters Its Final Week

August 31, 2011 in News & Events, Other Than That - news, business & other nonsense | Comments (2)

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What? What’s that you say? It’s only August 2011, so what on earth am I doing talking about an event that doesn’t take place until March of 2012?

Simple. It’s SXSW – the annual rodeo of all things...

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Politics of a Different Sort: Drawing the Line Between Personal & Professional On-Line

November 2, 2010 in Other Than That - news, business & other nonsense | Comments (0)

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It’s election day and as media outlets of all ilk are saturated with Blue & Red statistics, I was thrilled to get an email that had nothing to do with whether the Democrats would retain control of this or that or which Propositions...

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Feeling Like a Fierce Female – Of Speaking and Nominations

October 4, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (0)

I spent my day today at the 140 Conference in LA … mostly listening to other speakers but then capping off the day with a lovely fireside chat with Traci Dinwiddie an amazing woman who I not only respect for her talent as an actress...

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An IdeasProject Question: Drawing the Line Between Public and Private

May 24, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (2)

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It’s an ongoing debate. Privacy on-line. Just how much is too much and where do you draw the line? The ebb and flow of this topic surged in recent weeks in large part due to the renewed kerfuffle over Facebook’s apparent disregard for their...

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Making Way Through the Digital Forest (and Seeing it for the Trees)

May 10, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (0)

This is a post originally penned for Intel’s Inside Scoop blog.

Time.

It’s one of those things of which we never seem to have enough and yet at the same time the world in which we live has accelerated so that we’re expected to do more, faster,...

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Whirling Dervish: A Rapid Recap and Looking Forward

April 29, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (2)

I’m pretty lucky. I love to travel. My favorite part, though, always is coming home to San Francisco and tucking into my favorite chair (view from which is above) to write up thoughts and experiences from my time away … or catch up on my...

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A New Beginning: This Time, It’s Personal

April 18, 2010 in News & Events | Comments (4)

For the last 20 years, I’ve spent most of my time telling other people’s stories for them. In one way or another – through Journalism, public relations, back to Journalism and into business development and conference content curation – I’ve focused on being a conduit...

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