Out & About

My work has given me a chance to not only play with promising communication tools and approaches, 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 LinkedIn and Twitter for more.

Speaking & Collaborating | Training | Teaching | Media | Fun | Videos

Speaking & Collaborating

  • Moderator of SPJ Western Washington Continuing Ed Series session, “Building Community in the Digital Age” Jan. 9, 2012. Roundup here.
  • Invited attendee at NewsFoo 2, Dec. 2-4, 2011, sponsored by O’Reilly Media, the Knight Foundation and Google. Delivered an Ignite talk titled, “Why I Unplug.” Video here.
  • Moderator of Seattle City Club conversation with Maya Enista Smith, CEO of Mobilize.org, Nov. 17, 2011. Roundup here.
  • Panelist at Seattle Interactive Conference session titled, “The Local Conversation – Social, Local Mobile,” Nov. 3, 2011.
  • Moderated chat with PBS NewsHour correspondent Hair Sreenivasan, a collaboration between KCTS 9 in Seattle and the University of Washington’s Masters in Communications and Digital Media program, Oct. 10, 2011. Video here.
  • Attended the Excellence in Journalism Conference in New Orleans, Louis., as the official voting delegate for the Western Washington Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sept. 25-27, 2011
  • Curated session content for the Online News Association website during the ONA conference in Boston, Sept. 23-25, 2011
  • Guest host on the GeekWire podcast with Todd Bishop, aired on Seattle’s KIRO radio, July 7, 2011. Post here.
  • Invited attendee at Sparkcamp 2011, New York, NY, June 10-12, 2011, hosted by the Knight Foundation and others. Delivered an Ignite talk titled, “There’s not an app for that: Connecting beyond social media.” Fellow attendees listed here.
  • Co-organizer and speaker at inaugural ONA-SPJ Seattle “News Next” meetup series along with Mark Briggs on the topic, “What can a newsroom learn from a startup?” Seattle, April 27, 2011.
  • Invited attendee at the Hardly Strictly Young journalism summit at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, Columbia, Missouri, April 18-19, 2011, supported by the Knight Foundation and the Reynolds Journalism Institute. My posts from the event here.
  • Panelist at Society of Professional Journalists Region 10 conference discussion titled “What’s the deal with hyperlocal?” Richland, Wash., April 9, 2011.
  • Panelist at Humanities Washington event, “Crossing the Gr8n Divide: New Modes of Technology and Intergenerational Communication,” at Everett Public Library and Renton Public Library, Feb. 2 and Feb. 4, 2011
  • Invited attendee at the Re-Imagining Journalism Summit, Washington D.C., Jan. 29, 2011, supported by the Knight Foundation and the Ethics in Journalism Foundation. Information and a list of fellow participants here.
  • Invited attendee at NewsFoo Camp 2010, Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 3-5, 2010, hosted by O’Reilly Media. Participated in unconference discussions and delivered an Ignite talk titled, “What a newsroom can learn from a startup.” Information on the tech and journalism conference and its fellow attendees here.
  • Speaker at the Poynter Institute’s Social Media Day, St. Petersburg, Fla., Nov. 5, 2010. Material now available as coursework at News University here.
  • Lecturer and presenter (in Spanish) at several universities in El Salvador during a weeklong “Journalism 2.0″ speaking tour in San Salvador sponsored by the U.S. State Department, Oct. 3-8, 2010.
  • Panelist at Sea Beez chat about ethnic media in Seattle, Sept. 23, 2010.
  • Speaker at CRAVE Seattle Business Chat, “To Blog or not to Blog,” Seattle, June 27, 2010.
  • Panelist at Latina Style Business Series session titled, “Technology Solutions to Increase Business Productivity,” Seattle, June 24, 2010.
  • 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

Media

  • Contributor to the December 2011 issue of Arcade Journal with the piece, “No one can’t share.”
  • Guest along with husband Jason Preston on the GeekWire podcast, June 4, 2011, talking about social media and what it’s like to be such a geeky couple. Audio here.
  • Sat down with Warren Etheredge for a second time to raise the bar to community on an episode of Seattle’s “The High Bar with Warren Etheredge,” June 2011. Video here
  • Sat down with Warren Etheredge on an episode of Seattle’s “The High Bar with Warren Etheredge” to talk about digital journalism, Dec. 2010. Video here
  • Interviewed for Seattle Metropolitan Magazine profile, “The 50 Gigabyte Woman,” November, 2010
  • Interviewed in Seattle Woman Magazine cover story, “Masters of Social Media,” July, 2010.
  • 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

  • Skype-in guest in visiting chair Mike Fancher‘s Entrepreneurial Journalism graduate class at the University of Nevada, Oct. 11, 2011
  • Skype-in guest lecturer at Mandy Jenkins’ Social Media for Reporters graduate class at Georgetown University, July 26, 2011
  • Skype-in guest in Kathie Marchlewski’s newswriting class at Delta College, July 14, 2011
  • Guest lecturer in Sonora Jha’s journalism class at Seattle University, Feb. 10, 2011
  • 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

  • Without even noticing, I’ve become a bit of a foodie. So it was fantastic to be asked to join Shauna Causey, Chase Jarvis and others as a judge at the first Mobile Food Rodeo, featuring 25+ food trucks in and around the Seattle area, on Sept. 17, 2011. I sampled everything. That was a heck of a Saturday.
  • 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.

Videos

The High Bar w/ Warren Etheredge & Monica Guzman Preston from The High Bar on Vimeo.


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