I am a social and digital media professional. I serve as Digital Brand Manager at the Inland Northwest's largest and most-loved credit union, STCU. I also speak about credit union digital marketing around the country.
I co-produce and write a week-daily podcast called A Thousand Things to Talk About. Every day I ask a question and provide just a little context.
(Currently on short hiatus).
I have been speaking in public for well over 2/3 of my life, and revel in it. Topics include questions, communications, social media,, digital marketing, and personal development. Presentation information.
I believe that…
Speaking to someone in their chosen medium is incredibly powerful.
Asking a question is one of the most respectful acts you can engage in.
In late March, I gave a presentation for the Mid-Columbia SCORE on how to use social and digital media to grow small business. Additional sources mentioned include the Pew Research Center research on social media. Read more…
On the request of a few attendees, this is the spot you can download the slides from my Tri-Cities Women in Business 2019 conference presentation.
As I’m building out and working on a number of presentations that I’ll be giving over the next few months, I’ve run across something I kinda-sorta knew, but didn’t like remembering. People like quoting statistics. Read more…
Driving home from what, to me, was a usual Friday evening of live broadcasting $5,000 being handed out to local nonprofits, listening to NPR. The story of Owura Kwadwo Hottish came on, discussing the worldwide Read more…
What, exactly, is an ad anyway? For anyone who spends a not-insignificant amount of their time online, the explosion of Vero in the last few weeks is impossible to ignore. It may be FOMO at Read more…
Either because I'm a bit picky, or really obsessed with my job... I home-brewed a social media monitoring and management system in Slack. Here's how...