Who I Am
When anyone asks me what I'm passionate about, I tell them my kids (Pete, Joe and Ellie) and my "kids" (students in the J-School at UW-Madison). Both brands are eminently cooler than I am and sometimes listen to me about important stuff. One brand listens because they're paying for me while the other does because I'm paying for their videogames.
Beyond that, I'd kind of like to be Mrs. Ben Folds, a desire my husband tolerates easily, given that one, my musical idol already has a wife and two, Scott's pretty confident Ben would be geekier in person than he sounds on CD.
My kids are great at helping me learn new software and my "kids" try to learn it from me with great aplomb.
This is what I did to learn iMovie when I first started teaching multimedia in 1999
Here's how I spent 20 minutes figuring out Soundslides
Learning to record off the phone was fun, but mybestfriendJanie wishes I'd kill this clip forever.
I'm picked up Flash by sharing our wishes for a new year
Last year we tried to unravel the mystery of consumer-generated ad content (we didn't win the contest but the boys had a great time shooting the video)