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Lights. Camera. Help. Festival

Life, Nonprofiteering on July 23rd, 2010 No Comments

The Lights. Camera. Help Festival is happening again this year, and if you live in Austin or are visiting in the last few days of July, you should get some tickets and go. Why?  First, altruism aside, it’s an interesting, engaging event.  Last year just by sitting on my tookus for a few hours I [...]

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Emmy’s Interning Life

Life on July 1st, 2010 No Comments

As an English major, the bulk of my internship applications were editing jobs at publishing companies or magazines. I thought I was a pretty strong candidate for these jobs, and that I would certainly get one of them, but apparently the hundreds of other English majors at UT desperate for jobs in their field had [...]

Lights. Camera. Help – Open for Submissions

Life, Nonprofiteering on April 14th, 2010 No Comments

I’m getting some heavy-handed guilt trips for missing their talk last night at the Austin Social Media Club, but it’s a great concept and a fine thing to have in Austin.  Also, the graphic and arresting “Fowl Play,” at last year’s screenings, put us firmly on the path of not buying eggs anymore.  Here’s their [...]

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Email Management

Life, Nerding on April 8th, 2010 No Comments

My email management process is a source of pride.  It’s not the best in the world, but it works very well for me.  It borrows a lot from Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero ouvre, and I’m sure many more neat tricks have been implemented by the community than by moi. It all starts with GMail.  There [...]

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March Miscellany

Life, Nerding on March 10th, 2010 1 Comment

My tasks list says we’re due for a blog post, but I’m eyeball deep in client effluvia and staying that way until SxSW, when I will be consumed entirely.  So, interesting things on the innernets: I don’t remember how I stumbled across the blog of Bud Caddell, and I don’t really know who he is.  [...]

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