On October 1, 2011, I officially joined the amazing team at ReadWriteWeb.com, one of the world’s leading web tech blogs. I am covering Facebook, e-commerce and other social media. To read my work, go here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/author/alicia-eler.php Or just click on the logo below to go straight to ReadWriteWeb.com!
From January–September 2011, Alicia served as the Associate Editor of MoveOn.org. Here is a list of her complete duties: • Discovering and curating top viral content daily • Writing irresistibly clicky headlines and ledes for viral content posts • Tracking memes and viral trends in the progressive politics niche • Managing contributing editors and online [...]
Social Media Consultant Services For Nicole Hollander Project: BadGirlChats.com Dates: April 2010–May 2011 Every newspaper reader knows the Sylvia comic strip, written by long-time Chicagoan Nicole Hollander. For more than 35 years, Hollander has been writing the smart, political, feminist comic strip, Sylvia, which is distributed by the Tribune Media Services Syndicate. So why would this [...]
The good guys over at digital strategy firm MA Interactive hired me to blog about social media and other web tech news for their company blog. Here are the posts I wrote for them. Social Media For Super Busy People You’re a busy person. I’m a busy person. We’re all pretty busy. So how on [...]
Since I began working on launching BadGirlChats with Sylvia Cartoonist Nicole Hollander, Nicole and I have gotten to know each other as writers. Here are a few short posts I’ve written for this funny, feminist site: On Pets and Responsibility: The Reindeer Dog On Paranoia: When the Window Guys Come to Change the Windows for [...]
xoxoo love, loser American culture is obsessed with winning and success, yet it is fixated on losers. On August 10, 2010, in the final episode of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the reality television competition for artists, 1.48 million people nationwide watched as artist Peregrine Honig lost the final challenge. She came in [...]
Writer Alicia Eler spent some time getting to know collectors Curt and Jennifer Conklin, their 3-year-old daughter Claudi, and of course their expansive art collection. The young couple discussed who caught the art bug first, and what they’re most interested in collecting now. Click HERE to read the article on ChicagoGalleryNews.com.
Are some people biologically drawn to art? Having nurtured a collection since 1988, Dr. Daniel S. Berger thinks so. Writer Alicia Eler visited Dr. Berger’s home, and the two discussed how a collection’s theme takes shape, how art adds balance to a stressful life, and how this collector is inspired by the challenges many artists face. [...]
By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann Pop culture is replete with stories of young men realizing their potential and becoming heroes. In the first season of Work of Art, pop culture’s introduction to the heretofore secretive Art World, America was provided with the familiar hero’s story. In the tenth and final episode, The Big Show, [...]
By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann American culture idealizes the beautiful boy as one who lives “between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood.” Unlike adults, he is alive to “enjoy every second of every minute of every hour of every day…” The beautiful boy can do no wrong. His natural habitat is [...]
St. Louis reminds me of Kansas City, Missouri, with its warehouse-filled downtown area, and its mix of the South and the Midwest. I took a giant … [Read More...]
