Expanded from original post at Social Axcess. I am a big fan of the arts and, particularly, the arts in education. I’ve spent a lot of time in my life either working on the business side of arts, like in film, or volunteering in artistic communities or for arts groups. I think people are drawn …
Tag Archive: social media
Feb 16 2011
Response to a ‘Correction’
As you all know, I’ve been reporting on Social Media for a website called Social Axcess. I reported on the iPhone confession app, which allows you to figure out which sins you need to confess, and I got a somewhat heated reply from one of the founders of GSMI, the company that owns the blog. …
Jan 31 2011
Social media and the revolution in Egypt
Originally posted at socialaxcess.com The revolt in Egypt has shades of the Green Revolution of 2009 in Iran. Like then, the revolution has been supported and promoted by social media like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Iran cracked down hard, blocking many IP addresses and making the internet so slow that it was difficult to use, …
Jan 27 2011
Social Axcess
So, biggish news, I’m working as a staff writer at social axcess and writing about social media. Which is just about as meta as it gets. I don’t know that there’s much that isn’t post modern about blogging, but there you have it. My first post went up and there’s even a little picture and …

Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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