Creating simple but fun social media reports
Social media is fun, the reports to your teams can be too!
In both Twitter and Facebook, the number of followers you have is the first thing that impresses on a report, but the interactions between your account and your fans is what really shows a healthy social media presence.
For average weekly reports, the needs are [...]
My Twitter training outline for new tweeters
At my work with ecometro, we built a website but needed to promote it. The print publication was very popular in each of the 4, then 6 cities, but fans didn’t think to look online, even with the url printed prominently in the books. In 2008 I created Twitter accounts for each city, and searched [...]
Twitter is not just for tweens
This chart of the average age of Twitter users for February 2010 is a quick, easy way to show clients that people on Twitter are not, in fact, all 13.
New green living guides, new structure for resources
The 2010 Chinook Books arrived today! It’s super exciting to see another year of my content in beautiful print, and now in 6 cities! I’ll put more up here, and in the interactive print section, soon.
Japan’s underground, robotic bike parking structure
I want one!
Related on Slate, How decent bike parking could revolutionize American cities.
Sustainable trumps green living and eco friendly on hot word trending. Thanks to Al Gore?
These graphs are from Google Trends, which tracks the frequency of searches by term.
Wondering about that peak in 2007? 2007 is when Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award (it came out in 2006), it’s also the year he split the Nobel with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he was [...]
I am a Twitter expert because the TV says so
A friend at a local news agency was looking for a Twitter expert. Why not me? Why not anyone, but that’s less fun.
Chinook Book/EcoMetro Guides and ecometro.com
Three years and counting of green living guides/coupon books in 3, then 4, then 6 cities.
EcoMetro: What Nau? Sustainable Clothing Company Throws in the Organic Towel
It hurt to write this, having watched this company grow from a fledgling state.
EcoMetro Interview: Tierra Del Forte of Del Forte Denim
Del Forte Denim is one of the very few jeans brands that uses 100% organic cotton grown in California and does production in the USA. Phone interview.
Chinook Book/EcoMetro Guides and ecometro.com
Three years and counting of green living guides/coupon books in 3, then 4, then 6 cities.
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I am a Twitter expert because the TV says so
A friend at a local news agency was looking for a Twitter expert. Why not me? Why not anyone, but that’s less fun.
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Creating simple but fun social media reports
Social media is fun, the reports to your teams can be too!
In both Twitter and Facebook, the number of followers you have is the first thing that impresses on a report, but the interactions between your account and your fans is what really shows a healthy social media presence.
For average weekly reports, the needs are [...]
Travel
LA Times Winter Olympics
A good friend invited me to Torino for the Winter Olympics in 2006, to hang out with her family. Her little sister dates Joey Cheek, the speedskater, who won gold the second night we were there. Whooee!
Interactive Print
Interactive green living content
We started with interviews and small games, and worked up to beautiful full page analyzers of water use, home energy, waste…transit trackers, savings trackers, oh my!