I’m a Seattle writer working at a startup called Intersect.

From January 2007 to May 2010, I was a reporter at seattlepi.com, an online-only Seattle news site where I wrote news and feature stories and ran The Big Blog (see my PI stories here).

My work has given me a chance to not only play with things like citizen engagement and social media, but also share what I’ve learned and — if anyone asks — where I think it’s all going. Here’s a round-up of where I’ve spoken, trained and taught — and some stuff I’ve done for fun. See the highlight reel on the right. See my Twitter and Posterous blog for more.

Speaking | Training | Teaching | Talking | Fun

Speaking

• Panelist at Seattle Public Library forum, “Technology and its impact on the future of libraries,” May 8, 2010.
• Keynote speaker at the 2010 Northwest Career Educators and Employers conference, giving a talk titled, “Taming the social media monster,” April 29, 2010. Program newsletter here
• Speaker at the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington regional conference. Talk titled, “Twitter as a Reporting Tool,” April 10, 2010.
• Panelist on media panel at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival titled, “Process Journalism: Getting It First While Getting It Right,” in Austin, Tex., March 14, 2010. Audio available here.
• Panelist at the 140tc: The Twitter Conference discussion, “The Media Panel: Social Media Stories from the Front Lines,” March 8, 2010.
• Discussion moderator at PR+MKTG Camp Seattle, March 3, 2010.
• Moderator of “Protecting your Digital Assets: Using Social Media to Influence and Manage Online Reputation,” a panel at the International Association of Business Communicators event, Communications Management in the 2010s: Strategies for Navigating Game-Changing Trends, Feb. 25, 2010 at the Harbor Club, Bellevue. Video here.
• Panelist on blogging panel at the Public Relations Society of America Puget Sound Chapter’s Nonprofit Seminar, Nov. 5, 2009 at Seattle Center.
• Moderator for social media panel at Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce Smart & Simple Strategies for Small Businesses event, Sept. 16, 2009.
• Panelist at Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau “Social Media and You” luncheon, Sept. 15, 2009.
• Speaker at “Citizen Gain,” a panel on public engagement trends in news at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington D.C., Sept. 9-10, 2009. Video here.
• Keynote speaker at tech conference “Chicks Who Click: Vancouver,” June 26, 2009.
• Moderator of “Journalism Rebooted,” an International Association of Business Communicators event in Seattle, May 19, 2009.
• Panelist on “The Premature Death of Newspapers,” a forum hosted by Pacific Lutheran University, April 2009.
• Panelist on “Journalism on the Brink,” a forum on the future of news hosted by the University of Washington, Feb. 25, 2009. Video here.
• Panelist on “Future of the Written Word,” a discussion hosted by the Seattle chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators in Bellevue, WA, January 13, 2009
• Speaker at the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, talking about social media, October 14, 2008
• Moderator of the Seattle City Club panel event, “Neighborhood Blogs: What’s All the Buzz About?” September 2008. Watch the video here
• Speaker at the Bigfoot Blogging Conference on new media blog tools, October 11, 2008. Liveblog from Anthony R. Stevens here
• Panelist at the Seattle Innovation Symposium at the University of Washington, June 10, 2008. Video here
• Speaker at Gnomedex conference, Sept. 2008, giving a five-minute talk first delivered at Ignite Seattle 5, Feb. 2008. Video from the Ignite event here. Video from Gnomedex here.
• Speaker at Young Professional Network event in Seattle on social media, July, 2008.
• Panelist on unconference session “The Future of News,” at FOO Camp in Sebastopol, California, July 11-13, 2008
• Keynote speaker at the annual Washington Journalism Education Association conference, March 2008
• Panelist on Seattle City Club forum about the future of news, October 2007.

Training

• Taught Social Media as a Reporting Tool to Northwest Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, Sept. 21, 2009
• Visiting faculty at “Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist” seminar at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., May 4-7, 2009
• Taught new media tools to journalists at The Herald in Everett, WA, November 2008
• Taught “MySpace, Facebook and Twitter” class to Northwest Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, November 10, 2008. Lessons from the class here

Talking

• Interviewed by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Quill Magazine for a June 2010 feature listing 20 journalists to follow on Twitter. See it here.
• Interviewed by Seattle Magazine for print and online profile titled, “News Flash: Monica Guzman,” that ran in the March 2010 issue of the monthly magazine and is available here.
• Interviewed by Seattle NPR station 94.9 KUOW about my three favorite Web sites, Oct. 31, 2009. Went with three online journeys that illustrate how blogs let ordinary people tell extraordinary stories. Audio here.
• Interviewed along with Aneesh Chopra, Hal Varian, John Markoff and Carl Malamud for C-SPAN “Communicators” segment from the Gov 2.0 Summit. Video here.
• Interviewed by Tony Ventrella on Comcast Newsmakers segment aired on CNN Headline News, December 2008. Video here.
• Interviewed for a story about journalists and social media in the American Journalism Review called “The Limits of Control,” August/September 2009.
• Interviewed by Kenji Onosawa for Seattle Social Media Profiles, June 2009. Video here.

Teaching

• Guest lecturer in Kathy Gill’s #uwtwtrbook communications class at the University of Washington, July 7, 2009
• Guest lecturer in Florangela Davila’s communications class at the University of Washington, Feb. 5, 2009
• Guest lecturer in Randy Beam’s communications class at the University of Washington, Oct. 6, 2009 and Sept. 30, 2008

Fun

• Well, this was flattering, and — like I mentioned to John Cook of Techflash — a little awkward. On June 17, 2010, I accepted an award as “Seattle’s Sexiest Blogger” at The Seattle Weekly’s Best of the Web Awards at the Hard Rock Cafe. Here’s video, and a take from Curt Milton, my neighborhood blogger.
• Gave a talk at Ignite Seattle 9, during Global Ignite Week, on “How to have an argument” with my fiance, Jason Preston, March 4, 2010. Video here. Here’s a preview, of sorts.
• Directed attendees at Seattle Mindcamp 6.0 in a 2 a.m. just-for-fun lip dub of the Black-Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” Nov. 22, 2009. We did it in under 2 hours! Video here.
• Starred in Seattle filmmaker Wes Kim’s shot-for-shot remake of the “Glee” rendition of “Don’t Stop Believing,” August, 2009. That was one awesome Saturday. Watch the video — which was mentioned in a Philadelphia Inquirer column — here.
• Gave 5-minute talk at Ignite Seattle 7 titled, “Addiction! How to Stay Afloat in the Age of the Stream,” Aug. 3, 2009. Video here.
• Featured on Seattle artist David Hoang’s “Hand-Drawn Avatar” series. See him draw my Twitter pic here.