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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: Anecdotes
Steph+Suw Podcast: First!
[fr]Suw et moi avons enfin enregistré le fameux podcast-conversation dont nous parlons depuis notre première rencontre, en mai 2004. C’est en anglais et c’est assez long, mais on s’en est pas trop mal sorties pour une première![en]Each time Suw and … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Travels
Tagged airports, airportsecurity, Anecdotes, Audio, blogging, Blogosphere Interest, boundaries, cats, children, city, conversation, death, geek, geotagging, influence, internet, IRC, london, marketing, medicine, naming, nicknames, Online Culture, perception, Photos/Videos/Audio Online, Podcast, privacy, religion, risk, sanfrancisco, screennames, security, stephaniebooth, suw, suwcharman, Theories, Travels, wii
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Video: About Lush and Blogging
[fr]Une petite vidéo puisque la TSR m’a posé un lapin (tournage prévu pour cet après-midi, reportage annulé mais on garde le plateau — détails suivront) qui raconte ma découverte de Lush et ce qui fait que je pense qu’ils devraient … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate, My corner of the world
Tagged Anecdotes, blog, blogging, Blogs et entreprises, businessblogging, ctts, entreprises, lausanne, lush, Photos/Videos/Audio Online, Podcast, stephaniebooth, switzerland, video, videocast, vlog
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Cours de psychologie féline — euh, humaine
[en]Most efficient way for dealing with humans who complain that your cat is excerting revenge on them by peeing on doors: don’t try to explain that cats don’t have human feelings or attitudes. Instead, tell your cat sternly off in … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Understanding life and the world
Tagged Anecdotes, animal, Animals, cat, chat, complaint, concierge, discussion, félin, feline, Fun for me, marking, neighbours, plaintes, psychologie, psychology, Psychology / Sociology, solution, Theories, voisins
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A l’étranger jusqu’au 4
[en]Off for Shift and Blogtalk. Be back on the 4th. Catch me by e-mail or SMS if you need to communicate.[fr]Comme prévu, je serai absente jusqu’au 4 (conférences Shift à Lisbonne puis BlogTalk à Vienne). Pour me joindre durant ce … Continue reading
Posted in My corner of the world, Travels
Tagged Anecdotes, banquette, blogtalk, cff, conference, General, lisbon, pieds, shift, suisse romande, train, Travels, vienna
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Vive les jours de lessive!
[en]Venting a bit because of the really lousy way laundry stuff is organised in my block. I was told yesterday evening that I had to share my laundry day (today!) with a neighbour. That leaves us enough time to get … Continue reading
Posted in My corner of the world
Tagged Anecdotes, buanderie, colère, concierge, histoire, humeur, lausanne, lessive, machineàlaver, mauvaisehumeur, organisation, panne, Pieces of Me, suisse, suisse romande, switzerland, Venting
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Sur l’arrière-train!
[en]Just got a commercial letter from IKEA using the informal “tu” instead of “vous”, and am frankly quite shocked. I use “tu” very easily and tend to prefer it to “vous”, but we’re so use to associating “vous” to official … Continue reading
Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world
Tagged Anecdotes, commerciale, conventions, correspondance, français, ikea, ikeafamily, Languages / Linguistics, langue, lettre, politesse, suisse romande, tu, tutoiement, Venting, vous, vousoiement, vouvoiement
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Dear Apple
[fr]Lettre ouverte à Apple. Trois mois et demie depuis la panne de mon ibook et toujours pas de MacBook commandé depuis deux mois, ça commence à suffir.[en]Dear Apple, I told you again more than six months ago how much I … Continue reading
Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit
Tagged Anecdotes, apple, customer, delay, feedback, harddrive, ibook, Internet / Computers, mac, macbook, motherboard, order, osx, problem, support, unhappy, Venting
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Franchement, PostFinance!
[en]I tried to open a Post Office account online. Filled in a bunch of forms. Now, a few days later, I finally receive a letter telling me I need to go to the office itself and fill in the forms. … Continue reading
Posted in My corner of the world
Tagged Anecdotes, compte, comptejaune, courrier, ergonomie, formulaire, laposte, lausanne, ouverture, postfinance, site, suisse, switzerland, usability, vaud, web
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Moment fort
[en]In Geneva Saturday night, I came upon an actress who played in Rester Partir, the play my brother and I had a small part in twenty years ago, just after our mother died. We talked a few minutes — a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Anecdotes, caroline, childhood, emotion, enfance, geneva, genève, lanuitdujournalintime, life, meeting, memories, Pieces of Me, rencontre, resterpartir, souvenirs, vie
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