Becky Blab

Wishing you all the best in the coming year! It’s hard to believe I’ve been back in the US for a year and a half already! I’m starting to feel like a real New Yorker, for better or worse. I’ve recently started working as a digital media coordinator at UN Peacekeeping, and before that had [...]

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It’s a beautiful summer day. I can’t believe it’s already June, the second. One year ago today, we arrived in the US. A year ago yesterday, we took our four suitcases and left our lives in India behind, almost five years worth of experiences, fears, memories, adventures. Salil has in fact just made that same [...]

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From July to January I was helping Beth Kanter co-moderate social media metrics training webinars, and I wanted to write a post about how much I learned during the experience. Not just about conducting a webinar and monitoring the chat function, which did take some getting used to since everything was going so fast in [...]

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This week, my grandfather celebrated his 97th birthday. We had a party on Sunday, that I helped to organize thanks to Facebook. His birthday was either the 9th or 10th, no one was sure since it hadn’t been recorded. Today, 97 years ago he was just a few days old. But this morning at 3am [...]

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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it. — Goethe I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. — Duke Ellington No matter how arbitrary it may seem, the new year is a time to set things [...]

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