What I Did On My Facebook Vacation!

Father, it’s been six weeks since my last Facebook. And here I am back in the confession booth.

Naw, it’s not a sin or anything, it had simply become an aimless obsession that sucked too much of my time – time that I had forgotten was valuable.

A vacation from Facebook is what I needed to re-direct my energies. Unfortunately, I didn’t visit the tropics, but I did accomplish a few things and took a new journey in my mind.

About a week after quitting Fb I found that that chunk of free time was indeed mine again. It felt like extra cash, like a little lotto influx and I wanted to spend it! - but spend it wisely.

So I decided to pick up where I left off with my Certificate in Magazine Publishing from Ryerson University. I’d dropped out when I got hired at the CBC, but did a little poking and discovered that I have another year or so to complete the program (a relief since I am more than half-way through and have spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on this program.)

The course I selected was by default – the only course offered for Winter 2009: Creating Website Editorial. I never imagined that I would be interested in creating websites – but oddly, I am! Since then I have received an “A” in that course and have re-vamped this old blog and created a new blog called I Heart Docs dedicated to documentary films and television and have been encouraged by several industry folks. It’s been a lot of fun!

I’ve also started to take over the social networking side of CBC Documentaries. According to my teacher at Ryerson, Social Media Managers and Producers are the next wave in cool media jobs – and I’m already on board (you can check out some of my CBC work on Twitter.)

Oddly, that means I HAVE to become a Facebook professional!!!!! So you’ll be seeing a lot more of my face again for better or worse. And I'll be seeing more of yours again which will be lovely.

Oh, I almost forgot! I'm producing trailers for Doc Zone docs that you can view on our website. Here's the latest one for a very interesting doc called "Biodad" about the future of reproductive technology and how that will change our notion of "family."