Jenn’s Words: “Living in poverty is like being punched in the face over and over and over on a daily basis. “

Social Media

Social Media may well be the next great communication tool, but we should not get LOST on analyzing its penetration into markets, or measure the ROI looking for profit, gain, or some other kind of reward.  We should learn to measure how much MANKIND has benefitted from Social Media as a tool.  I think if…

Settling in in NYC

So I am settling in NYC ok. I started my internship and am working more on becoming better at social media. And now even cooler news I happen to work in the flatiron district witch is home to tumblr and about 200 other High tech and social media companies.

So I do expect to interview them and bring you more of the splendor that is NYC and my time here.

Talk to you all soon and don’t forget to leave a comment for me or if you want some pics from NYC lemme know! Peace 🙂

The Humble Tea Leaf

When you start “collecting” different loose teas, you’ll wonder where  and how to store it.

Tea’s life, quality and flavor depends on quality storage.

Tea will absorb odors, humidity and any sort of toxins in the air. Actually, that is also why I use my infused tea leaves to absorb bad odors in my fridge. Then I through them away in my compost.

Avoid these 5 tea flavors assassins

Light

•will degrade your tea by stripping if from its natural color and of course its flavor ➞Dark place, Tea tin.

Moisture

•will degrade your tea, causing decay and naturally loss of flavor, quality ➞No fridge, Sealable container.

Heat

•will degrade your tea as well, summer is approaching ➞Cool place, Away from stove, oven.

Odor

•will absorb good and bad odors, better avoid putting it near anything with strong odors (Spices, oignons…)➞Avoid spice cabinet.

Air

•will absorb every particles in…

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Takin a bite outta the Big Apple!

Hey all, I will be spending the next few months in NYC on an internship, and I just got here, so expect alot of exciting things to come, hopefully come interviews, lots of photos, and lots to talk about, so be on the lookout, and cant wait to get busy on things.

The search for life

It's been a while since I blogged, and maybe that is a good thing. I have had some major changes in my life, and made some course corrections to it as well. I was looking for direction, got that, then I was looking for myself, found that, was very very dis-satisfied with what I got,…

Social media’d out

I have been working now for more than a few months attempting to learn how to be a social media person, and improve my abilities as a social media enthusiast.  But it seems that all I learned in that time, was to follow other peoples ideas and information.  I began looking for influential followers, wondering…

To Klout.com or not to Klout.com

Ok, I have been playing with an online presence for some time now, a few years, a blog here, a tumblr there, a posterous account for smaller thoughts and such.  I have been playing, working, teaching on the net for some 8 or more years and I never really got serious about building an online…

REBLOG: Meet my new Crush: my Aladdin Tea Infuser Mug (via We’re having Tea in the City)

☀Meet my new toy ! I don't need much to be happy and enjoy little things. I don't need entertainment or action in my life. Yes I am quite boring. I do like to have some tea on the go. I got an Aladdin Tea Infuser as a present like a week or two ago and I…

A busy few weeks

Sorry for being absent the last couple of weeks, I have been busy with school, and also refining my style as a blogger/twitter-er/facebook social media student.  I have been reading more on how to build a brand, and define/focus my interests to make my content more meaningful, to both my readers, and myself.  I find…

Drowning in Social Media

After a few solid weeks exploring the vast array of social media tools that are available, testing them, playing with them, everything from location based tools like foursquare, and analytics like Klout, and microblogging tools like posterous, and tumblr.  It was an interesting trip, learning about the tools, and finding out what tools work best…