{"id":1786,"date":"2006-11-20T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/11\/20\/restructuring_m.html"},"modified":"2006-11-20T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:27:28","slug":"restructuring_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/11\/20\/restructuring_m.html","title":{"rendered":"restructuring my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/10\/28\/suckage_explain.html\">me flipping out<\/a> a few weeks back?  I decided i should listen to some of you and try to put some structure into my life.  Thankfully, some fantastic people decided to help me out.  I want to take a moment to announce some of the changes that will (hopefully) make it possible for me to be more productive and more engaged (and ideally more active here).<\/p>\n<p>First, i went and gots me an agent who thinks i talk real goot.  ::blush::  Thanks to Wes Neff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leighbureau.com\/\">Leigh Bureau<\/a>, i will again be available for professional speaking gigs.  I&#8217;m looking forward to the opportunity to engage with people from a variety of different industries about the significance of social media.  (Plus, the fangirl in me can&#8217;t believe that i&#8217;m on the same bureau as Malcolm Gladwell.  ::drool::)<\/p>\n<p>Second, Jonathan Aronson over at the Annenberg Center has agreed with most of you that i desperately need a research assistant\/admin to help me manage what i&#8217;m doing.  Together, we&#8217;re looking for a USC undergraduate who thinks this social media stuff is kinda cool and wants to get paid to help out.  (If you know any, let me know!)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, i&#8217;ve restructured my relationship with Yahoo! such that i will no longer be a resident social media researcher but will continue to consult for them on social media projects.  This will hopefully give me more flexibility to work on my youth research projects.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that by springtime, i will be speeding along quite dandily, getting some publications out and otherwise producing what has been building up in my head for quite some time.  This is also all in preparation for the dissertation writing phase which you will be painfully subjected to for the next 18 months or so as i prepare to draft a book about all of this goobly gook.  If all goes well, i will have three additional letters to my name by spring 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, thank you to all who have been supportive (and continue to be supportive) and to your very deeply appreciated suggestions.  I really do appreciate it immensely.  I&#8217;m still struggling in what it means to be a grown-up and balance has never been one of my strengths.  But i&#8217;m trying&#8230; i think good things can come out of a more balanced danah.  Tehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember me flipping out a few weeks back? I decided i should listen to some of you and try to put some structure into my life. Thankfully, some fantastic people decided to help me out. I want to take a moment to announce some of the changes that will (hopefully) make it possible for me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}