One of my New Year’s resolutions was to be viewed as an expert. So I have been teaching a lot since January. Teaching is a great way to find out how much you know and how much you still need to learn.
I’ve been teaching middle school kids comedy and creative writing. Beth Buchanan (on the right) and I’ve taught communicators social media skills at the Religion Communicators Council and at the United Methodist Association of Communicators. (I love team teaching — much less stressful than solo teaching.)
My next (solo) teaching gig is at Word Camp at Baruch College in New York City from June 9 to 10. The title of my workshop is “Social Media and Social Movements.”
My session, one of 80, is hands-on — perfect for beginners, non-techie types, and people devoted to a cause. But there are a lot of workshops that are geared to people who love ideas like digital marketing, shared hosting, HTML5, and hyperlocal. (Attend this conference to find out what those terms mean. What’ve you got to lose? It’s $35.)
I love WordPress for being my landing page — a place to post my resolutions and then achieve them. And along the way, help others to become experts too.
100 Days of Poems and Pics 
Have a great workshop at Baruch! I just finished taking a class on social media at F.I.T. The use of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. for the promotion of good causes and social action is a wide open territory. Enjoy being the expert!
Thanks Candy! Congrats on finishing your class. It is interesting and uncharted territory — using social media to lead to positive action. After all, humans are social creatures!