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Where does your favorite sitcom take place?

On March 18, Dan Meth created a U.S. sitcom map. (That followed his popular New York map of sitcoms.) On April 2, Flowing Data issued a challenge to improve the U.S. map. Today I finished this interactive map of sitcom locations. (And by finished, I mean someone already mentioned two more sitcoms that should be [...]

Build sleek, professional timelines with Timetoast

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Creating interactive graphics with Many [...]

3 ways to make text more visual

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Creating interactive graphics with Many [...]

Create interactive graphics with Many Eyes

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Today we will use Many Eyes [...]

What kind of graphic should you make?

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Before jumping into Many Eyes, another [...]
 

Erica Smith

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Social media channels I'm active in:
Blogs, Social Networks, Social Bookmarking
About Me:
I’m a journalist, a designer, a novice programmer … and I eat M&Ms in Roy G Biv order.

I am addicted to the news. Twenty-four-hour-news-channel addicted. Breaking-news-e-mail-alerts addicted. Text-message-alerts addicted. It’s a sickness — a well-informed sickness.
My Favorite Social Site:
http://twitter.com/ericasmith
My Website/Blog:
http://graphicdesignr.net
Profile on any social media site 1:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=5200471
Profile on any social media site 2:
http://friendfeed.com/ericasmith
Profile on any social media site 3:
http://thirtysomething.ning.com/profile/EricaSmith
Profile on any social media site 4:
http://mediageeks.ning.com/profile/EricaSmith
Profile on any social media site 5:
http://visualeditors.ning.com/profile/EricaSmith

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Erica Smith

Debate + bingo = nerdy fun!

I created a new Web site yesterday: President Bingo. Grab a bingo card, watch tonight's debate (and/or the post-game commentary), and see who wins. Enjoy!

Posted on October 7, 2008 at 2:57pm — 2 Comments

Erica Smith

Plurk: New Twitter clone may be better than Twitter

There’s a new Twitter clone on the block. Plurk is much more visual than Twitter, which I like. It’s colorful (and customizable), quirky and, best of all, uses timelines. It also allows you to follow people without adding them as friends, lets you divide your friends into groups (or “cliques” in Plurk-speak). It also groups conversations, which is nice.

It picks up on some Twitter features — comments are lim… Continue

Posted on June 2, 2008 at 2:06pm — 1 Comment

Erica Smith

Need an invite?

I have a few invites up for grabs for Social Median (alpha) and BrightKite (beta). Anyone interested?

Posted on May 15, 2008 at 12:21am —

Erica Smith

Stalk me

My blogs:
Points & Picas: Journalism, news, design, life
Paper Cuts: Layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers
Live & Kern: Observations and contemplations
The Story of Man: The story of man is told in headlines from around the world
Spillman: Family… Continue

Posted on May 15, 2008 at 12:19am —

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At 7:00pm on January 24, 2009, Tim Moore said…
Hi there - let's connect as friends. I am looking forward to getting to know everyone in the group and am always on twitter, so stay in touch - @twmoore . Also, you are welcome to join my network of social media colleagues on LinkedIn
At 7:44pm on December 11, 2008, Liz Dorland said…
Hi Erica,

Saw you on the STL Twitter Elite from http://twitter.grader.com. I admire design talent--I can recognize good design, but creating stuff--not so much. :-)

Cheers, Liz D.
At 11:06am on May 15, 2008, Barbara Loveland said…
Hello Erica. I look forward to meeting you at a future club meeting. I would like a BrightKite invite. Thank you!
At 9:53am on May 15, 2008, Lisa Young said…
another ning site I'm on lets you add four other links in your profile so I guess it can be done. I'll ping Tanner and ask him.
At 9:10pm on May 14, 2008, Lisa Young said…
Hi Erica ... Fun to see you here, there (twitter) and everywhere (brightkite)! Hope to meet you in person soon.
 
 

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