Join the Conversation

As a Millenial who presently has memories divided evenly by our analog and digital days and who is also an engineer, researcher, and educator (and moonlighting as a social media (SM) manager for small businesses for the past four years), I must say that this mornings news of Worldwide Outages of Facebook, Instagram and X have me tingling with excitement, concern, and general inspiration this morning.

Now, though I have MUCH to say and process about this, I will summarize my thoughts here briefly and come back to them at later dates as I comb through my calendar of educational, research, and creative contracts that are taking off over the next few weeks/months.

The beautiful thing about the thoughts I am having and wanting to share with you all is that no matter how long this outage lasts, I am pretty sure we both may benefit from whatever it is that emerges from these conversations - if only a deeper appreciation for our times and the systems we find ourselves in.

Ok, now, the point:

This outage highlights the significance and need for more conversation and possibly policy and advocacy for the following topics:

  • Education and Creation for Youth during System Instability

  • Digital Literacy and Digital History Education

  • Content Ownership for Digital Publications

  • SM and SM Marketing without its "Big Three"

  • International Fundraising Post SM's "Big Three"

This list will obviously evolve, and I have many expert collaborators to line up still to be able to really get to the bottom of some of these things with any sort of accuracy or efficiency. I would still like to invite you to sign up to join these conversations with me.

  • It would mean a lot to my present journey of sorting my research and writing interests for myself, my work as an educator for the last 15 years, and my research consulting agency, which I hope to finish developing over the next 3-6 months.

  • I also have lots of art and events upcoming that I plan to offer to the first 100 folks who sign up!

I also invite you to enjoy this collective deep breath without technology's most instantaneous provider of experience and stimulation. No matter how long it lasts, we are all worthy of this particular rest.