It’s somewhat surreal that this month I celebrate five years living in San Francisco and it’s has most certainly been a while ride. September also marks the first anniversary of me working as a professional journalist/blogger at The Next Web.
In looking at the past 12 months, I must say that it’s certainly been a learning experience shifting gears away from working in a pharmaceutical advertising agency to writing practically non-stop for TNW covering news from the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Salesforce, Twilio, and many other companies.
On one hand, …

Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us immigration group held a screening today of “Documented”, the film by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas about undocumented Americans.
Facebook’s CEO took the stage prior to the premiere to talk make some comments about the cause he has put money and resources into. He highlighted his personal take on the issue — speaking about how his wife helped him set up a program at a local school where he could get involved in causes rather than just simply supporting them.
During his time teaching, Zuckerberg encountered a young student …

Quite frankly, I think the title says it all…
I wanted to follow up on my last post about my new adventures with this update…a day later, I suddenly realized that I had left something really important out of my big announcement–the drive and the support that helped get me to become the next Bay Area Reporter for The Next Web.
As most of you probably know, I’ve been writing as much as I can recently for this cool tech blog called Bub.blicio.us, started over six years ago by one of the …

I just want you to know that this post isn’t even possible without the generosity and help that I’ve been given by my friends and also by Brian Solis and Bub.blicio.us–thanks for helping me to dream about bigger things.
This month, I celebrate my four-year SF anniversary. I’ve had an interesting ride over the past few years and I’ve been fortunate enough to share it with many friends, old and new.  But perhaps what I’ve been most proud of is the fact that I’ve managed to find a really great job …

Many of you know that for the past couple of years, I’ve been posting a lot of my photos from tech events onto Flickr and occasionally doing some writing on this social tech blog called Bub.blicio.us. It’s been a great time for me especially since I’d love to provide more of an outlet for the events that I really enjoyed going to and being invited to attend–thank you for all the invite and care. I never thought it would be appropriate to mix my marketing insights with tech party photos …

It’s somehow fitting that last night, as I was researching a bunch of articles about Texas Republican Lamar Smith’s latest attempt to stifle the freedom of speech that we have been given in the US Constitution that the blockbuster movie, Enemy of the State (starring Will Smith, Jon Voight, and Gene Hackman) aired on TV. The premise behind this movie is that a member of Congress, wants to push through a privacy bill that a Senator will not vote against, thus blocking its passage. What it would do is invade the …