Everyone’s a fact-checker now.
The White House is getting nervous. Their new website–shiny and a great example of using social media it may be–demonstrates a growing uneasiness. (Not to mention, “the greater the level of Carville viritrol, the more they are losing.”) The Washington Post and other Beltway elites can write off town hall meetings and [...]

There’s a trend on Twitter where people send messages on Fridays recommending some of the people they follow to their followers. If you’re not a Twitter person, in plain English, people recommend other interesting people to their online friends.
One of the people whom I follow and respect is Barry Moltz, who was kind enough to [...]

When ProBlogger launched their 31 Days to a Better Blog series earlier this year, I jumped at the chance to participate. I had recently recommitted to my blog–even hired Kirsten Wright to redesign the site, help me build my new strategy and provide additional content for the site–and thought this would be a great way [...]

Creativity and design are believed to be left brain functions. So is blogging. This can be frustrating for those with a right brain mentality, which is where the political and rational discussion part of your brain resides. Especially because the right brain has the talent to come up with the arguments that the left brain [...]

Many of the political conversations I have had with people on Twitter or Facebook surprise them. Not because of how I say things, but because of my ’side of the fence.’ The comment I get most often is, “You’re conservative? But you’re so involved with social media!” In the beginning, I didn’t understand why people [...]

I just got back from a fabulous trip to Vegas with a couple of girlfriends – we took in a few shows, lay by the pool and had too much good food.
What we didn’t have were the crowds of people that you would usually see.
Obviously we all know the economy has been down, and down [...]

As I sit at my desk and think about tomorrow, I can’t help but remember back to elementary school. I recall reading about the original Boston Tea Party, thinking how amazing it was that those men and women stood up for what they believed in. Now, just 24 hours before the 2nd national tea party, [...]

Daryl Cagle is known for his political cartoons, and does an incredible job depicting what we would see if Obama’s twitter account covered what was really happening with our money.
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Kirsten Wright is a freelance blogger and graphic designer from Orange County. Her experience spans social media, traditional marketing and many years in writing/editing. She [...]