When I met Laura Monaco Torelli, I knew she would be the perfect expert to feature on You & Me. She has an amazing background as an animal trainer, working at the Shedd Aquarium and Brookfield Zoo. She now has her own company, Animal Behavior Training Concepts, which works to improve relationships between dogs and […]
I have been in love with pigs since I was a young girl. The attraction was immediate with them being so cute, smart and funny. It didn’t hurt that “Charlotte’s Web” was my favorite book. I started picking them up everywhere I went and soon had quite the collection. Once people knew that I liked […]
You may have heard the media phrase “speaking in soundbites,” but what does it really mean? For journalists, when they find a source who knows how to speak in soundbites, they are often giddy. I always get excited when I’m talking with a potential interviewee and they don’t struggle to share their thoughts on a […]
As the Managing Editor of Broadcast for Think Glink Media, I supervised the production of several videos for Equifax which featured nationally-known money and real estate expert Ilyce Glink. The credit reporting agency wanted to use short online videos to help educate its customers about a variety of money topics. We used a question and […]
I blogged about why video production is a smart investment for Think Glink Media. “There’s been an explosion of video across the Internet—from YouTube to Vimeo to Vine—and videos are now a key component of most news and entertainment sites. When we think ‘viral,’ we think videos. Many (in)famous videos have been shot with a […]
I developed educational Web content for Ecredable, an alternative credit reporting agency.
Expert Chicago dog trainer Laura Monaco Torelli came to me with an idea for a video series to help promote her business. She wanted to do short videos that would share her knowledge and encourage viewers to explore training methods. We came up with three video concepts to start and then set up a location […]
One of my most successful projects with Ilyce Glink was the production of real estate educational videos for her YouTube channel. I wrote short scripts that focused on one topic; she then recorded them in a TV studio and I worked with an editor to add music and graphics. There are now hundreds of videos […]
After all my years of producing newscasts and TV segments, I got the opportunity to be on the other side of the camera to do a live TV interview. It happened when I co-authored a book called “Lyin’ Cheatin’ Bastards” which featured the top political scandals in the U.S. from 2000. I appeared on the […]
And on a personal note, I wrote this essay for USA Today for my dad in honor of Father’s Day. “I wasn’t very adventurous at 12 when it came to going to the movies; Disney films and rom-coms were more my speed. So when my dad suggested we go see Raiders of the Lost Ark, […]
