Faith, Fiction, Friends

It’s difficult for me to imagine that I’ve had a Facebook account for at least 17 years, but a Facebook memory popped up this week to prove ...

Twitter was the first social media platform I joined, way back in 2008. I was far from being an early adopter, but I was one of the first pe...

Tweetspeak Poetry’s jam on Twitter on Jan. 15 used prompts from  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the T...

Tweetspeak Poetry was born on Twitter. Even before a web site existed, poetry jams were being hosted, participated in, and then edited ...

It’s been a while since we last hosted a poetry party on Twitter, but it finally happened. Nine Twitter poets participated, responding ...

At our recent Twitter party, things took a decided turn toward the planet Saturn, silver ribbons down the back stairs, or perhaps the f...

I have a theory about poets and poetry, and it is this: there are only four poets in the United States who make a living by writing poe...

The next groups of poems from our recent poetry jam on Twitter is posted today at Tweetspeak Poetry. The poems take a turn toward swan...

It takes time to sift through the contributions to our Tweetspeak Poetry jams on Twitter, time to make sure all of the lines are, firs...

Some 15 poets gathered at the recent Tweetspeak Poetry jam on Twitter, and early on tried to guess the source of the prompts. Some tho...

On October 9, 17 people (and a few retweeters) came together for a Twitter poetry jam, with the prompts coming from lines in The Novel...

Over at TweetSpeak Poetry today, I had a post on seven new poems from our recent poetry jam on Twitter. For the first five, we went into ...

It was another TweetSpeak Poetry Twitter party last Tuesday, and 13 intrepid souls braved the shock of their Twitter followers and tweeted ...

I’m working on a presentation about social media (my full-time job) (except for the other stuff that’s not social media), and I delibera...

It’s a Dummies book, with that trademark black and yellow cover. Its title is Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies . And it is what...

Yesterday, I posted about the problems I was having with Twitter, specifically with my main account having been deemed “spammy” by Twitter’s...

A mystery has been solved. For our last poetry jam on Twitter, something odd happened – when I used the hashtag (#tsptry) with posts, my twe...

It started as something of a lark. L.L. Barkat , Eric Swalberg and I , with a little commentary from Bradley Moore , decided to do a poetry ...

A few weeks back, my friend Bradley Moore asked if I would be interested in writing a book review for his blog. Bradley is a business execu...

We had another twoem, or poetry jam, on Twitter last night. I got in a few tweets before I disappeared for a while, but @llbarkat, @arestle...