by Alicia | May 18, 2010 | News, Press
ChicagoNow, the network of hyperlocal blogs owned by the Chicago Tribune Media Group that I helped launch in 2009—I was the Arts & Culture Community Manager up until February 2010—has just been recognized in the Mashable article “Five Innovative Websites...
by Alicia | Oct 27, 2009 | News
At my TweetCamp Chicago presentation on October 10th, 2009, I discussed how arts journalists could use the Twitter application Hootsuite to organize and keep up with goings on at hundreds of museums. During the presentation, I noticed two Twitter models at play:...
by Alicia | Oct 21, 2009 | News
LGBT niche publications have provided us with the news we need for decades. Now, they’re in danger–if they keep up their old media ways. I just started reading Urvashi Vaid’s groundbreaking and still relevant book Virtual Equality (1996), which...
by Alicia | Sep 1, 2009 | News
ChicagoNow’s Alicia Eler, Arts and Entertainment Community Manager, and ChicagoNow Editorial Director Tracy Samantha Schmidt participated in the keynote panel at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana’s (College of Media, Department of Journalism)...