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Speaking

WordCamp Montclair: I Just Got This WordPress and Don’t Know How to Use It

June 24, 2023

I got to give my WordPress beginner-focused talk at WordCamp Montclair this weekend, and since I had to cancel last-minute for WordCamp Buffalo, I’m pretty sure this is my first time speaking in front of an…
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Post Status Draft #137

January 19, 2023

I had a great conversation with Cory Miller of Post Status about some of the work I’m doing at Nexcess and how it relates to decentralization and owning your own platform. As always happens when Cory…
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I Just Got This WordPress And Don’t Know How To Use It – Learn WordPress

November 30, 2022

I gave a workshop (more of a talk, really) on what to do when you’ve just been handed the keys to a WordPress site and have never used WordPress before. This session is geared for the…
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Thinking

“What Day Even Is It?” Five, holiday break edition

January 2, 2023

One: Apple Watch with Family Setup This year, the big Christmas gift for our son Charlie was his own Apple Watch, which we’re able to set up to work without a phone via Apple’s Family Setup…
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Friday Five, coasting edition

December 2, 2022

One Somehow I managed to schedule myself a week where I had to record two workshops and a podcast in the span of four days. This was fully accidental. But I think I managed to do…
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Friday Five, Heat Death of Twitter Edition

November 18, 2022

One I was completely ignoring the entire FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) story until a friend shared a Matt Levine column on it with me, and now I am completely hooked and simply cannot stop reading about it.…
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Reading

What is a product marketer?

September 1, 2023

But really a product marketer, they understand the product, they understand the audience and they understand the market in which you’re operating. And from there they can figure out how to communicate with your audience about…
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Ship It Friday

September 1, 2023

Communication and Influence is one of the four quadrants in the Growth Competency Model and it’s critical to a leader’s success in any function. Expert-level communicators get more attention, resources and support. The best part? It’s a lifelong…
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What We Need in a VP of Product Management

August 1, 2023

Ask any great product manager how she learned her craft, and you’ll hear about an early mentor. Product management is hard, experiential, and doesn’t come out of books. We learn by watching and doing and stubbing…
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The Untold Tale of the Artichoke Parm, the Most Mysterious Sandwich in Brooklyn | Bon Appétit

July 13, 2023

My yearlong fixation on The Sandwich helped me better understand my own city—the way it evolves and grows and changes but still carries its history with it, in the people and the food that sticks around.…
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Making

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