Had so much fun sharing my highly interactive FaceWork Simulations at Calhoun Community College’s in-service on Friday, Sept 5th! I led a workshop, The Digital Ripple Effect: How Our Posts, Messages, and Emails Shape Workplace Climate and How to Fix It, where we explored how digital behaviors—across platforms

In Season 4, Episodes 5 & 6 of The Office, Dunder Mifflin rolled out its new online sales platform, Infinity. The Scranton branch was invited to join a virtual launch event. But in true Office fashion, what should have been a simple live stream spiraled into a case study of

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI rolled out its biggest upgrade yet: ChatGPT-5. This new release is faster, smarter, and better at thinking when the situation calls for deeper reasoning. It’s designed to handle complex requests more accurately, deliver quick answers when you need them, and reduce those frustrating AI

Here's What Happened! This summer, several real entrepreneurs and job seekers enrolled in my communication courses—and as part of a pilot, they used the Elevator Pitch App to sharpen their personal and professional brand messaging. These weren’t hypothetical classroom cases. They included: -The founder of a

When New Software Drops… Here's What Happens in the Zoom Room We’ve all been there. You log into yet another “exciting” Zoom meeting, and the agenda reads: “Intro to New Software Rollout!” Before the demo even begins, the reactions start rolling in.... sometimes out loud, sometimes just

Smarter Tools. Sharper Communication. That’s been the vision from the start. When I launched AlignCom in 2019, the mission was clear: deliver instructional design that served both corporate and academic spaces. But as the work evolved, so did the brand and the impact. Today, as AlignComSync, I’m bringing

If your screen time report made you flinch this week, you're not alone. Between leadership, lesson plans, and late-night doomscrolling, the tabs—real and mental—just keep multiplying sometimes resulting in burnout! Try this interaction to close a few tabs—mentally, not metaphorically. Click each tab to get

When Tim Slade announced the June Cybersecurity Challenge, I knew I wanted to create something fast-paced, practical, and communication-centered. Instead of warning slides or generic threats, I wanted learners to step into a realistic digital space—where the dangers look like work, not warnings. The challenge was based upon a

We’ve shifted so much of our communication to screens that we often forget it still counts as human interaction—with real consequences. Whether it’s a Slack ping, a WhatsApp thread, a customer review on Google, or a message on LinkedIn—these platforms have become the real meeting rooms,