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as you know, i’m an avid twitter (over) user. i love it. and there are two things that have made me roll my eyes quite a bit lately. […]
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twitter rant
May 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: communication · the net
blogging yourself home - the books
May 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments
for the blogging yourself home workshop at MentalHealthCamp, i had referred to a number of books in addition to leon tan’s fabulous article on MySpace and blogging as a form of self therapy.
here they are:
writing from the heart - tapping the power of your inner voice, by nancy slonim aronie
love the friendly, welcoming, comfortable tone […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · emotional health · interesting books · the net · therapy
blogging yourself home - part 2
May 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments
in my last MentalHealthCamp post, we started talking about what the word “home” means to us. the wordle image here illustrates what some of the commenters in that post said, as well as what was mentioned during the workshop at MentalHealthCamp.
what happens when you are in this good home, and you’re going through a […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · the net
blogging yourself home
May 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments
here is part 1 of my presentation at MentalHealthCamp on the topic “blogging yourself home – writing, blogging and creativity.”
i’ll present it as if i was talking at the presentation and treat you, dear readers, as if you were participants in the workshop.
here we go …
when i was a little girl, there were these tiny […]
Tags: addictions · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · the net
MentalHealthCamp - the power of social media
April 26th, 2009 · 9 Comments
here are my opening notes to MentalHealthCamp yesterday; they followed raul’s great introduction to the workings of social media. we decided that he would be the social media guy and i’d be the mental health gal. (how well raul and i worked together deserves a whole post by itself).
i managed to present most of […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · the net
MentalHealthCamp a success!
April 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments
MentalHealthCamp was amazing! it’s saturday evening now and i’m pleasantly tired after this wonderful day of community and learning. if you’re dying of curiosity regarding what happened, read the tweets here and here. i’ll report more in the next few days!
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collaborative learning
March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
now i’m at a session on collaborative learning by michael yue and maria starosta. more live blogging!
some of the impetus for this session came from the philosophers café projects
“collaborative learning is better than learning by yourself”
presenter not an authority; he may have taken a bit more time to look into the topic but he […]
Tags: news and events · philosophy and education · the net
MentalHealthCamp - a whole conference about mental health and blogging
February 23rd, 2009 · 9 Comments
coping digitally, a session at the 2009 northern voice blogging conference that talked about the intersection of blogging and mental health and how social media can help derease the stigma of mental health was a real success. raul did a live blog of the session. thanks, raul!
the overwhelming feedback, during and after the session, face-to-face […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · news and events · the net
mental health and blogging: a summary of questions
February 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments
this is a summary of the discussion we had on monday about mental health and blogging. thanks for all the great comments! i will use this as my guideline (guidepost?) for my participation at coping digitally, a panel discussion about mental illness and social media that i’ll be part of at the northern […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · news and events · the net
twitter peace, shalom, salaam, and the salvation army
January 12th, 2009 · 6 Comments
at the end of my day, i often ask myself, what was the theme for today? on this day, january 11, it was peace. with all the things that are happening in gaza right now, it was sad. and yet it was good. i am so grateful for all the good […]
Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · the net
social media etiquette
November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
for your entertainment and edification, i’m over at alphablogs today, where i’ve compiled an interesting conversation we had today on twitter about social media etiquette, early adopters and morality. complete with my very first very own lolcat:
moar funny pictures
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simplicity and the internet
October 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments
as someone with a strong buddhist influence, i often think about simplicity, and make tiny, cautious steps towards it. my baroque mind finds this rather ridiculous because life is most fun and exciting when there are lots and lots of decorations and curlicues, when there is boundless abundance and variations upon variations on themes […]
Tags: spirituality · the net
october buddhist carnival - about poverty
October 15th, 2008 · No Comments
the first part of the october buddhist carnival is entirely dedicated to the topic of blog action day 2008:
poverty.
longing for the begging bowl
as usual, we start with a poem. here is a translation from malayalam into in english by k p pradesh – a poem by koyamparambath satchidanandan
buddha, this earth is burning
not by lust but […]
Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality · the net
just brilliant!
August 19th, 2008 · 15 Comments
about 10 days ago, geert awarded me the brilliant web award. thank you, geert, especially coming from you! geert posts mostly in dutch (and i have a hilarious time trying to decipher it) but also in english once in a while.
so now my job, he says, is to nominate at least 7 more […]
Tags: blogs of note · the net
blogathon: post #1000!
July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
this post marks ID#1000 on my site. dear web site, let me take this opportunity to thank you.
you’ve taught me so much! i don’t even know where to begin. just today i learned about a new quirk in wordpress. (if you post lots of posts, some entries can accidentally get stuck […]
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