I may be one of the few but I enjoy researching. I love to find information, organize them and present them to fit the ideas that inspire me. This is what took up a majority of my semesters while obtaining my Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology Program. Even though I have successfully graduated, I still continue to do research and gathering information, I guess it’s programmed in me while I was in grad school but it’s both enjoyable and vital in the career past I have chosen.

When I started the idea of building an open environment where other can share ideas, collaborate and disseminate information, I built a very basic website as the foundation of all these elements but I found it to be inefficient. It wasn’t until I took a new media class when I discovered the miracle of blogging, it not only allowed me to post information in real time, but others can freely contribute and I can share it with the world. My blog went through several evolutions to the one you see today, but each evolution was an experience that I value.

Social media is also another open environment that allowed me to freely share what I found. I attend local meetups, conferences and workshops and I freely share useful information to my online network and in fact, that is what I was known for. Soon I started building relationships with people online with similar interests, particularly in Hispanic marketing where my research is based on online media implementation and adoption within the Hispanic population here in the United States and Latin America (started back in grad school). I was able to connect people with one another, I formed a Facebook group to efficiently share information with professionals, I was invited to participate in Tweetups, guest blog and assist on other research.

In fact, I was thanked by a fellow UT Dallas student that used my tweets from a recent Hispanic marketing event as well as some of my research content to assist her in completing her thesis before she graduated! When I received this complimentary message, I knew that my research is fulfilling one of my goals. I may not obtain a PhD but this is definitely an equivalent.

So continue blogging, Tweeting, YouTubeing Pinteresting, Instagramming and Facebooking content in their respective formats; you’ll find that what you send out in cyberspace might be picked up by others and I can tell you from first-hand knowledge that this will help you be known online and the opportunities of achieving this is all yours to plan and initiate.

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