Welcome to eVentures in Cyberland: Through the Web 2.0 Looking Glass, and What Communicators Found There!

This site is primarily my personal blog, where I share news, advice, and my perspectives on the field of communications in the Web 2.0 age.  The site also contains information about my communications consulting practice. The site’s name is a play on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. It alludes to the fascinating—but sometimes wacky—ways Web 2.0 is changing the communications field.

A little bit more about me. My Twitter handle is @CyberlandGal, and my name is Monica (that’s just enough anonymity to allow me to write freely but not quite so much that a resourceful Googler couldn’t uncover my identify in about one minute). I hold a bachelor’s in journalism and a master of international service with a focus on international communication.

When I was 7, my hometown newspaper published my first work. I’d like to say my Columbus Day poem’s elegance caught the reporter’s eye, but I suspect it was my reference to the Mayflower. That same newspaper hired me for my first journalistic gig during my sophomore year in college. I covered weddings, anniversaries, and military promotions and maintained a community events calendar. Since then, I’ve written, edited, designed, and/or desktop published nationally distributed newsletters, brochures, and reports, including some prepared in collaboration with the White House. I’ve also worked on national public outreach campaigns and conceptualized, written, and/or designed multiple websites.

I’ve been working as a communications consultant out on my own since “Alice,” my beautiful 3-year-old, was born in March 2007.  Jim, “Alice,” and I (plus our beagle, Rover) live in Glenn Dale, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C.