A Countdown to Me:
10) Soundtrack of My Life: Father Father | Santeria | Graduation | The Middle | Good Riddance | You Got Her in Your Pocket | Clap Your Hands | Work Work | The Only Exception | Here Comes the Sun
9) Where I've Lived: (photos from iStock - Korean flag, humphrey'sflag.com - US flag, infoplease.com - Irish flag)
Seocheon | Seoul
Frelinghuysen | Ithaca 
Galway
Ithaca Naju Rye Brook | Brooklyn
8) Nostalgic Smells: Melting Butter | Terriyaki Sauce | Pine Needles | Fallen Leaves
9) Where I've Lived: (photos from iStock - Korean flag, humphrey'sflag.com - US flag, infoplease.com - Irish flag)
Seocheon | Seoul
Frelinghuysen | Ithaca 
Galway Ithaca Naju Rye Brook | Brooklyn8) Nostalgic Smells: Melting Butter | Terriyaki Sauce | Pine Needles | Fallen Leaves
7) Most-Read Books:
Ella Enchanted | Harry Potter Series | Nightworld Series by L.J. Smith | Chronicles of Narnia | Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles | The Tenth Circle | Voyage of the Basset
6) Six Word Memoir: Crossed the world, to get here.
5) StrengthsFinder Profile: Individualization | Achiever | Discipline | Focus | Arranger
4) My Favorite Foods:
Samgyupsal via GIPHY | Pizza Hut via GIPHY | Corn dogs via GIPHY | Funnel cakes via GIPHY
Samgyupsal via GIPHY | Pizza Hut via GIPHY | Corn dogs via GIPHY | Funnel cakes via GIPHY
3) Personal Brand: Imagine New Options.
2) TV Shows I Can Quote:
How I Met Your Mother | Friends
1) Perfect Day:
Shower, get dressed, and then meet my partner or a friend for brunch at a much-lauded location. Enjoy the eggs benedict or crepes or streusel-french-toast something offered on the menu.
Spend a little time writing in a location coffee shop that I was able to walk to after brunch through a beautiful scenic backdrop. Later meet a friend for lunch and stroll through a downtown area popping in and out of stores well supplied with eccentricities that we can browse and comment upon.
Sit outside with said friend in a beautiful location eating ice cream from a local creamery where they make their own. Perhaps stumble across a street fair or farmer's market and pick up groceries for later in the week.
Meet my partner for a tasting menu dinner where we can sit, converse, and be impressed by and satiated with gustatorial masterpieces. Attend an outdoor concert/indoor spoken poetry night/movie and then grab a drink to discuss it's aftermath.
Relax at home with a glass of wine and an episode of *insert popular sitcom here* with my partner/close friends and stay up late discussing feelings, hopes, or other complexities of life.
Wake up early feeling well rested. Able to leave a lavishly appointed house in a country setting to sit on the front porch and drink a cup of coffee while reading a couple more chapters of whatever book I'm currently immersed in.
Shower, get dressed, and then meet my partner or a friend for brunch at a much-lauded location. Enjoy the eggs benedict or crepes or streusel-french-toast something offered on the menu.
Sit outside with said friend in a beautiful location eating ice cream from a local creamery where they make their own. Perhaps stumble across a street fair or farmer's market and pick up groceries for later in the week.
Meet my partner for a tasting menu dinner where we can sit, converse, and be impressed by and satiated with gustatorial masterpieces. Attend an outdoor concert/indoor spoken poetry night/movie and then grab a drink to discuss it's aftermath.
Relax at home with a glass of wine and an episode of *insert popular sitcom here* with my partner/close friends and stay up late discussing feelings, hopes, or other complexities of life.
How I Engage in Digital/Online Communities
Before reading Preece & Schneidernman's article on "The Reader-to-Learner Framework" I would have said that I currently, find myself in dwindling online communities, or one's with a population of only two people. The only concrete online communities that came to mind for me were clearly ascribed such as LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram (all of which are platforms that I presently also use for work but otherwise are communities that I consistently question the value of and my personal involvement in). I stretched myself to identity direct digital correspondence and loop in features like messaging or email but otherwise couldn't have identified many of the ways in which I engage in social digital spaces.
Preece & Schneiderman helped me realize that I'm constantly interacting in online communities, that in fact such interaction is almost completely inescapable. It's merely the extent of my interaction, or my role in these interactions that differs. For example, I find myself frequently in the Reader role when engaging in online communities such as Zocdoc or Wikipedia. Non-interaction, or one-way consumption is inherent in my role in these communities. Additionally, I've been able to experience the importance of good user design first-hand through the specific case study of Instagram vs Facebook. I find both myself and many friends much more drawn to daily engagement on Instagram due to it's aesthetics and ease of use. Facebook on the other hand has garnered a constant chorus of complaints brought on by their poor ethics and frequent structural overhauls. Finally, I've found myself very much swayed by the principle of trust transference in these spaces. Testimonials from friends, top contributors, or celebrities will definitely be enough to make me at least check out a service, if not return.
I've vaulted into the Contributor role a bit more in digital spaces such as Yelp or Glassdoor.com or by contributing reviews to sites such as Wedding Wire or Amazon. There is some feedback (both positive and negative) to knowing others will be able to read and hopefully benefit from my reviews and sometimes will even be able to comment and build on my reviews with their own experiences. As my reviews gain traction, I definitely find myself more motivated to post. A digital interface like Uber adds even more of a next level interaction, since drivers can also rate you on your IRL behavior. Even my participation in social media sites like Facebook and Instagram fall mostly in the Contributor space, where I mostly add and tag photos, and comment on other people's content.
Most of my experience in the Collaborator role has been professional. Specifically, I work a lot in Google Drive with my colleagues, co-creating presentations in Google Slides, adding, analyzing, and visualizing data in Google Sheets, and working on strategic plans and assessments in Google Docs. Even my personal digital Collaborator experiences have operated through a Google asset; my partner and I will often create folders in Google Photos where we can both add pictures from our trips to then share with friends and family. Other times I've experienced the Collaborator role have been when designing online training, recording digital webinars and workshops, and creating professional websites. In these instances, online platforms and sites will mainly serve as a co-working space to compile ideas in a simultaneous fashion. In my current role, we call on the feature of collectivism to ask alumni to give back to current students via LinkedIn, Handshake, or our in-house alumni platform, Odyssey, by mentoring them via interview practice or by providing opportunities through networking, job shadowing, and internships.
I had the most difficult time identifying when I had served a digital leader. The only times that really came to mind was when I was running webinars or facilitating online panel discussions via Zoom. I also considered a possible leadership experience to be publishing personal blogs, where my voice is the dominant narrative and I am able to control the content. Finally, my last possible foray into online leadership are the social media platforms I manage within my current role. This leadership speaks mostly to the content creation and comment monitoring that my position entails. It's interesting to me that many of my "leadership" roles have been a result of my professional responsibilities, not positions that I personally have sought out. In the end, I'm not completely sure whether an essential piece of being a leader is being internally motivated to become one.
Preece & Schneiderman helped me realize that I'm constantly interacting in online communities, that in fact such interaction is almost completely inescapable. It's merely the extent of my interaction, or my role in these interactions that differs. For example, I find myself frequently in the Reader role when engaging in online communities such as Zocdoc or Wikipedia. Non-interaction, or one-way consumption is inherent in my role in these communities. Additionally, I've been able to experience the importance of good user design first-hand through the specific case study of Instagram vs Facebook. I find both myself and many friends much more drawn to daily engagement on Instagram due to it's aesthetics and ease of use. Facebook on the other hand has garnered a constant chorus of complaints brought on by their poor ethics and frequent structural overhauls. Finally, I've found myself very much swayed by the principle of trust transference in these spaces. Testimonials from friends, top contributors, or celebrities will definitely be enough to make me at least check out a service, if not return.
I've vaulted into the Contributor role a bit more in digital spaces such as Yelp or Glassdoor.com or by contributing reviews to sites such as Wedding Wire or Amazon. There is some feedback (both positive and negative) to knowing others will be able to read and hopefully benefit from my reviews and sometimes will even be able to comment and build on my reviews with their own experiences. As my reviews gain traction, I definitely find myself more motivated to post. A digital interface like Uber adds even more of a next level interaction, since drivers can also rate you on your IRL behavior. Even my participation in social media sites like Facebook and Instagram fall mostly in the Contributor space, where I mostly add and tag photos, and comment on other people's content.
Most of my experience in the Collaborator role has been professional. Specifically, I work a lot in Google Drive with my colleagues, co-creating presentations in Google Slides, adding, analyzing, and visualizing data in Google Sheets, and working on strategic plans and assessments in Google Docs. Even my personal digital Collaborator experiences have operated through a Google asset; my partner and I will often create folders in Google Photos where we can both add pictures from our trips to then share with friends and family. Other times I've experienced the Collaborator role have been when designing online training, recording digital webinars and workshops, and creating professional websites. In these instances, online platforms and sites will mainly serve as a co-working space to compile ideas in a simultaneous fashion. In my current role, we call on the feature of collectivism to ask alumni to give back to current students via LinkedIn, Handshake, or our in-house alumni platform, Odyssey, by mentoring them via interview practice or by providing opportunities through networking, job shadowing, and internships.
I had the most difficult time identifying when I had served a digital leader. The only times that really came to mind was when I was running webinars or facilitating online panel discussions via Zoom. I also considered a possible leadership experience to be publishing personal blogs, where my voice is the dominant narrative and I am able to control the content. Finally, my last possible foray into online leadership are the social media platforms I manage within my current role. This leadership speaks mostly to the content creation and comment monitoring that my position entails. It's interesting to me that many of my "leadership" roles have been a result of my professional responsibilities, not positions that I personally have sought out. In the end, I'm not completely sure whether an essential piece of being a leader is being internally motivated to become one.
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