In July we partnered with Facebook to broadcast the Congressional Baseball Game, a long-running D.C. tradition in which Democratic and Republican members of Congress play a game of baseball against each other to raise money for charity.
I worked with Facebook to produce and co-host the official Facebook Live stream of the event. The broadcast was our most successful Facebook Live to date and garnered nearly 6M views.
The video was shared by MLB players, Sheryl Sandberg, several members of Congress, and Mark Zuckerberg himself. You can read Facebook's blog post highlighting the success of the broadcast here or watch the full stream.
I was a guest on the Today Show this morning! I talked about my story on college meme wars and how kids use memes to become popular and connect with others online. You can watch the full segment here.
I'm only on screen for like 10 seconds at the end, but it was so great and brought me one step closer to meeting my queen Hoda!
I recently wrote a white paper studying how 35 top publishers are approaching distributed content and social media platforms for the American Press Institute.
The CEO of Science Inc., a California-based startup incubator, wrote a great Medium post highlighting some of the success People saw on Wishbone this spring.
I launched People's Wishbone account while consulting at Time Inc. and helped set the content strategy for Wishbone and other emerging platforms. It was really cool to be able to work so closely with a growing startup to refine its product and build toward shared goals. You can read a little bit more background on Wishbone on TechCrunch.
My time at Time Inc. reminded me how much I love working with designers and product people. I would love to do more of that in the future.
I spoke to Nieman Lab about the impact Snapchat's new Memories product will have on publisher content strategy.
TLDR, I think it will let publishers be creative in the way they repackage older content and will raise the bar overall for what people produce.
I woke up early yesterday before work in order to make it to a demo of 8i Reality whose tagline is "making virtual reality human."
8i produces photorealistic experiences that I can only describe as jaw dropping. Testing out the demos blew my mind all over again and I can't wait for their work to hit mass market.
I really think VR is ~the future~.
I participated in an attempt to break the record for the Worlds Longest Game of Telephone at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore this weekend. You can read more about the attempt in this article in the Baltimore Sun.
At the end of the day, the attempt fell short. But it was fun to participate in such a (nearly) historic event nonetheless.
People magazine recently started a hashtag campaign called #shareyoursize. It encourages women to share photos of themselves with their dress size.
This campaign is problematic for so many reasons I won't get into here, but my joke about Ann Taylor's sizing being notoriously bad made it into the San Diego Tribune.
This afternoon on Twitter I talked about how no media person should ever date another person in media and my comments were quoted in the Daily Caller's daily afternoon media roundup.
My friends and I have a longstanding joke about these roundups that they do, and so it's a true honor to finally be included.
I spoke to the New York Observer about the changing nature of the word exclusive.
It's been a rough couple weeks. I feel so lucky that I was able to spend New Years in Montreal with a bunch of girlfriends.
It was freezing cold and the whole city was covered in snow, but we had the best time. We ate maple snow (which is essentially maple syrup that they pour into snow and roll around a stick), went clubbing, and ate tons of Montreal bagels.
I'm happy to have had such a great start to 2016 and I can't wait to see what this year will bring.
I spent Halloween weekend over at the Javits center in NYC at Streamcon, which is being billed as "Vidcon East."
I interviewed tons of famous YouTubers, YouNowers, and Vine stars. You can check out my video interviews on People and Entertainment Weekly.
My biggest get was an exclusive interview with Boo, an extremely famous Instagram dog. He was just as snuggly IRL as on insta. In true star form, he changed outfits three times while he was there.
Why does every human on Vine suddenly have one of these?
After months of seeing them online, I finally got to try one.
It was hard to get my balance at first but once I got the hang of it it I never wanted to use my legs to walk again.
I've been freelancing at Refinery 29 for a couple months acting as an interim social media director while I help find them someone to take on the roll full time. So far it's been an awesome experience. I've learned so much and the company is killing it on social.
Tonight R29 threw a huge party in Brooklyn to celebrate its 10 year anniversary and the launch of "29 rooms" an art installation. I was there on the red carpet covering the event on Snapchat. I got to speak to some pretty cool celebs including Drew Barrymore, Dascha Polanco from Orange is the New Black, and Instagram's most famous grandma, Baddiewinkle.
I paid a visit to CNN's studios in D.C.
I paid a visit to CNN's studios in DC today. I got a full tour of the newsroom and saw Jake Tapper at work.
Even though I've never really been on TV I think I would do well hosting a show.