Fellow Story

Blogging About Your Work (Switzer Digital Skills Webinar)

June 27, 2012

Fellow(s): Tara Cornelisse, Jessica Hall, Joshua Wickerham, Laura Wisland, Brett Amy Thelen

Blogs and blogging can be a useful tool to spread the word about your science, activism, and more. In this webinar, a roundtable of Switzer Fellows discusses blogging platforms, how much of a time commitment blogging is, and ways to spread the word about your blog.

Originally broadcast June 25, 2012.

Meet the Fellows in this Story

Tara Cornelisse

2011 Fellow

Tara is an Invertebrate Zoologist with NatureServe. She received her PhD from UC Santa Cruz and has worked in natural resources management, insect conservation, and education.

Jessica Hall

2000 Fellow

Jessica is a landscape architect who has advocated for and proposed restoration projects for urban streams and watersheds in the nonprofit, governmental, and consulting sectors in Southern California. She has combined historical...

Joshua Wickerham

2008 Fellow

Joshua Wickerham drives transitions to sustainable development through writing and participatory advisory work, especially in China. Joshua is currently Manager, Membership and Engagement at the ISEAL Alliance (www.isealalliance.org), the...

Laura Wisland

2007 Fellow

Laura is a program officer in the Climate and Clean Energy Program of the Heising-Simons Foundation, where she leads the Foundation's efforts to support grantees working to reduce emissions from the utility sectors. From 2008-2019, Laura...

Brett Amy Thelen

2004 Fellow

Brett Amy Thelen has been directing place-based, conservation-focused community science projects for more than 20 years, with dual emphasis on creating a valuable learning experience for volunteers and producing reliable, reproducible...