My Journey Through the Fine Art of Overextending Oneself
Social media sites can be great resources for creative types, but I’m learning there’s limit to how many we actually need.
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Change Movie Quotes With Science—The best tweets of #ScienceAMovieQuote
#ScienceAMovieQuote is trending on Twitter, and smartly hilarious!
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Denver Comic Con Storify
Patricia uses Storify to share her first day at Denver Comic Con.
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How to Keep Social Media from Eating Your Life
Here are a few ways to keep them from eating your life (some of which you may already be familiar with, but they’re worth revisiting) — allowing you to enjoy social media sites when you’re ready, but don’t feel the need to come running every time they call.
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The Desolation of Smaug (With Tweets)
Eight months later, GeekMom Sarah finds her love of dragons exceeds her dislike of franchises and settles in with The Desolation of Smaug.
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Share Pictures With Donate a Photo, Help Worthy Causes
Sharing photos online has become the norm for most of us, and now when you share those photos you can also help a worthy cause with the Donate a Photo app.
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Social Planes: Soar Into New Communication Heights
Social Planes gives us a means of communicating in a fun way that doesn’t involve our phones that makes the message more personal to the writer and the receiver.
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Twitterpated Kids: Safe Twitter Feeds For Kids to Follow
Have you ever tried to find kid-appropriate Twitter feeds? We have a list for you!
Continue ReadingIs Facebook My Happy Place?
Every social media user has the choice to post what he/she chooses. Anything can be conveyed. Anything! Apparently I only post the happier stuff. Why worry people, right? Does that make me a fraud?
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Looking at Life Through Facebook
Many parents start baby books for their children. Looking at my son’s book, I realized he won’t learn as much about his early years through his baby book as he will through my Facebook page and the posts I’ve written for GeekMom.
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Slactivism vs Support
The internet is starting to become a breeding ground for causes to gain support. According to the Urban Dictionary, there’s a word for this new trend: t’s called slactivism. If you can’t tell, it’s a mix of the two words slacker and activism.
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Lois Lane Twitter Event-Celebrate Her 75th Anniversary Tonight
Okay, sure, it’s Superman’s anniversary too. But it’s Lois Lane, currently getting the short shrift in DC Comics, who needs to be recognized on the 75th anniversary of her first appearance. Directions on how to join in the Twitter trending event!
Continue ReadingKeep Your Legs Warm With Geeked-Up Tights
Despite my protests, summer always leaves eventually. I live in the southern US, so I can pretend for a long time, but come January, I have to face it. It’s just plain cold. There are only two ways to make that better: gingerbread lattes, which leave after Christmas, and funky tights, which are always your friend. Here are a few of my favorites.
Continue ReadingA GeekMom’s 34 Goals for 2012
A friend of mine recently published her professional website after months of preparation. One of her premier posts shared 30 things she would like to do this year in honor of turning 30. It’s not a milestone birthday year for me, but the idea made sense. In an effort to set reasonable goals instead of unattainable […]
Continue ReadingOnline Friends and Death
If you are like me, you probably have at least a few friends that you only know on the internet. I’ve been on the internet for 15 years now, since my sophomore year in college. I’ve been a member of many forums and made many friends that I only know through the internet. Some of […]
Continue ReadingTeh Interwebs Invades Halloween and My Home!
Internet memes and social media websites have become so popular that people take to dressing up like them for Halloween. Having a teenager and an almost-teenager in my household, it probably comes as no surprise that my oldest son dressed up as Facebook for school yesterday, and my youngest dressed up as Nyan Cat. When […]
Continue ReadingThe Last Geek On Twitter?
I can give you no reason, but until this week I was not on twitter. Call it a last ditch effort to slow down in this fast paced world, call it reticence from a reluctant facebook junkie, call it laziness. This week I caved, this week I joined twitter. Wanting my first tweet to be […]
Continue ReadingThe Speed of News and Earthquakes
I’m a little embarrassed to say that I get most of my news from the internet. And not from a reputable news source. Most of the news I read about comes from Facebook and Twitter. This afternoon, I got up from taking a nap with my toddler to find my Facebook and Twitter feeds covered […]
Continue ReadingBuzzing About Strawberryj.am
While everyone else is busy comparing Google+ to Facebook, I have been checking out a different cool social media application called Strawberryj.am. Strawberryj.am is a free online application that connects to your Twitter stream and harvests the most popular links being shared by those you follow on Twitter. Therefore, it removes the “chatter” from your […]
Continue ReadingWil Wheaton & Dragon*Con
I’ve been a fan of Wil Wheaton‘s since he was in Star Trek:TNG. I wonder sometimes if I was the only person who didn’t hate Wesley Crusher. In fact, since he was about the same age as I was when TNG was airing, I had a huge crush on both the character and the actor. […]
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