http://lisahickey.com Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:56:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An excerpt from "Why I'm Social-Media Promiscuous",  from The Good Men Project Magazine. [read the full story here.] I had been socially awkward for most of my life. I’d show up in social situations and not be able to remember if the person I was talking to was married or divorced, had ... http://lisahickey.com/social-media-a-love-story/ I love being on the radio. These days, it's not much different than talking on the phone to a friend who's really interested in what you have to say. And so all you have to be is really engaged in the discussion. Like life. Like radio. Here I talk about the ... http://lisahickey.com/radio-days-talking-about-the-good-men-project-on-vocalo-859-in-chicago/ I never knew selling socks could be so stressful -- or, what kind of economic system is this, anyway? I’m in the mall today with my daughter Shannon, and we’re shopping for socks. They need to be red, and high – just over her knee – it’s Halloween after all, and ... http://lisahickey.com/i-never-knew-selling-socks-could-be-so-stressful/ I am nine-years old, and my friends have decided to hold an intervention on my behalf. “Lisa, we need to talk to you.” They are all there – my bff’s (even though we didn’t use acronyms to describe relationships back then.). But these were my blood sisters, pinky promise, cross-my-heart-and swear to ... http://lisahickey.com/no-come-to-think-of-it-i-wont-shut-up/ ------------------------------- Is commenting on news articles a new form of entertainment? Apparently. One thing that has never ceased to amaze me in Social Media is the way people comment on blogs, stories, news articles. It truly is "new media" -- blog comments as entertainment. What a fascinating way to watch what people ... http://lisahickey.com/why-do-these-wimps-need-their-own-magazine-why-indeed/ As the publisher of The Good Men Project Magazine, I thought a two minute synopsis of where we're at with the magazine was in order. It's been an awesome month since we launched. What does it mean to be a good man? And do men even want to entertain that question? ... http://lisahickey.com/a-magazineabout-good-men-what-the-heck/ Hello, Hello, I've started sending out a weekly email of social media tips to those people who have asked me for advice in the past. It started as tips for my friends at the newly launched The Good Men Project magazine. The tips are somewhat random, mostly for those just starting out ... http://lisahickey.com/somewhat-random-social-media-tips/ “The subhead looks funny. I can’t figure out if it should have a period.” We all keep working. Benoit will figure it out. He’s been a writer for the New York Times Magazine. The author of two books. Surely he can figure out a period on a subhead without help from ... http://lisahickey.com/i-forgot-how-hard-launches-are/ NOTE: This story first appeared on The Good Men Project blog July 8, 2009, shortly after I had begun working on the project. “So what’s the book about?” The cold drizzle on Newbury Street was threatening to become a downpour, and I was pretty sure Tom Matlack, whom I had met five ... http://lisahickey.com/how-i-got-involved-in-a-big-sprawling-project-full-of-good-men/ [caption id="attachment_370" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="photo by inmost_light on Flickr"][/caption] "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three." Vladimir Nabokov wrote those words in 1955, buried in a paragraph somewhere within “Lolita.” I never read the book. Nabokov’s voice is, for the most part, too ... http://lisahickey.com/how-to-develop-a-voice-picnic-lightning/