Category Archives: blogging

2011 Post Roundup!

As the end of the year is rapidly approaching, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite posts on this blog over the past year. This will be a little mix of the most popular, most commented, and my personal favorites! I found it a bit hard to narrow down the posts, so here’s a…

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Connection, beyond the social web

My first tentative steps into the social web was in 2008, when I was studying abroad in London for a year. Like many others, I started a “travel blog” to keep my friends and family updated on my adventures abroad. Little did I know that the small step into “public” blogging would lead to a…

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Want to help? It takes longer than a week.

This post is a bit late to the party — but I figure, better late than never, right? A few weeks back, a famous blogger named Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, had a post where she talked about a sponsored trip to Bangladesh. She was essentially invited to go to Bangladesh for a week, take pictures,…

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Links I Liked

There has been a lot going on in the world recently, though I somehow feel disconnected from it all this time around. More on that later. But for now, please enjoy the following links: Bombs over Bombay, again – My heart breaks and goes out to all those affected by the latest bomb blasts in…

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Millennials: Stop overemphasizing your youth

The social media sphere is permeated with those who dub themselves “Gen Y” and “Millennial” bloggers. Every day, I hear about young nonprofit professionals, the top young millennial/Gen Y bloggers, career advice for young twenty-somethings. Hearing a common theme here? For the “Gen Y” blogging crowd, youth is an obsession. Discussions revolve around the quarterlife…

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The magic of storytelling; a tale of two bloggers

I love, live, and breathe writing. But one of my biggest writing flaws is that I am unable to tell stories. I can write abstractly, philosophically, discuss my opinion, or muse on the latest news development. I can write poetry that captures my fleeting memories. But something I truly struggle with is writing beautiful, meaningful…

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