Picture from my Alumni Magazine

This is a pretty good representation of my work/life balance: messy, but getting it done. Thank you Middlebury Magazine.

I have a Pinterest board called pictures of Water that make me feel relaxed

I love the water, I love looking at it, being in it, diving, surfing, fishing, stand-up paddle-boarding, the list goes on....  I saw this pic and loved it but you can't post to Piterest from Google+ so I'm reposting the photo. I can't find attribution but if anyone knows the original source, please post in comments so I can attribute and link back. Now resume your peaceful thoughts about this scene... what would I be reading in that chair? What would I be drinking? Who'd be in the chair next to me? Who'd be swimming in the pool? Is that boat coming to pick us up?

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A few profiles of late

Generous write-ups from Local Mags

Oakland Magazine- http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Oakland-Magazine/December-2011/Brainiacs/

Diablo Magazine- http://www.diablomag.com/Diablo-Magazine/May-2011/Meet-Becky-Worley/

Turn Off SocialCam- I beg of you.

Friends- I beg of you TURN OFF SHARING for the SocialCam app. Every video you watch is being posted to Facebook, automatically.

SocialCam is a feed of user-generated videos that is gaining huge momentum on Facebook. It's individuals posting video much like those on Youtube. The content is questionable, the titles of the videos are salacious and the images it posts in your timeline are embarrassing. Watch whatever you like, but are you sure you want everyone to know what you're watching?

SocialCam is user-generated video: it is not a media company vetting the videos, editing them, or at the very least showing some scruples about titling something correctly.

Many of the videos are link-bait: falsely labeled and don’t deliver what they promise. They are also titled in such a provocative way that it’s embarrassing, and the icons they choose as the thumbnail-representation of the video are often salacious or at the least misleading.

I am a huge fan of social sharing; seeing what friends read on the WaPo social reader is interesting, what they listen to on Spotify is great for new music discovery and (full disclosure) as a content creator for Yahoo! I love that a good story can catch fire with social sharing and get even more exposure.

But the videos on SocialCam aren’t held to any professional standards. Many of the videos have salacious titles and having that info posted to your timeline can be embarrassing. I’ve seen that people I work with have watched videos Titled “Girl’s Blouse Unbuttoning,” “Stupid Guy Hits His Girlfriend,” and “How to See Through Clothing”

I’ve also seen in my Facebook newsfeed that friends have watched videos with thumbnails of an overweight man shooting a pistol, a snake supposedly eating a security guard, a very unattractive photo of a woman’s posterior, and a lot of of cleavage.

So please, turn off social for SocialCam – here’s how:
Go to Facebook and on the left hand column under apps double-click SocialCam

Once in the SocialCam App in the upper right hand corner choose settings.

Once in Settings scroll down to “Auto Sharing” and unclick both the Facebook options. Scroll down again and hit SAVE.