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sosAssociates.com is an extension of my long time social media interests -- taking it beyond the 140 280 characters. Focus areas include:

  • Cleveland and Akron Cultural Events, Art, and Theatre
  • Parks and Trails
  • Cleveland and Akron Tech Meetings, Social Media Events, and Entrepreneur Groups
  • Website Design, Technology, and the Former WebSigCleveland.org

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PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 40 at Music Box Supper Club
PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 40 at Music Box Supper Club

PechaKucha Night CLE V40 Music Box Supper Club | An evening of hugs and high-wow-factor presentations! That is what PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 40 was for me! This blog post will act as a bookmark for my memory to help recall the feeling of the evening, and for those of you who did not attend, I hope it serves to encourage you to attend a future PechaKucha Night Cleveland event.

sosAssociates.com Blogiversary: Twelve
sosAssociates.com Blogiversary: Twelve

sosAssociates.com Blogiversary: Twelve | Today, March 8, 2024, as I celebrate twelve years of creating my sosAssociates.com blog, I am expecting that this year will be much different than last year - which is a good thing. I want to say thank you to the people responsible for all the great things I was able to do in 2023 and so far in 2024.

It Wasn't Really That Cold (Or Was It?): Brite Winter 2024 #Brite2024
It Wasn't Really That Cold (Or Was It?): Brite Winter 2024 #Brite2024

It Wasn't Really That Cold: Brite Winter 2024 | A BIG thank-you to the Brite Winter leadership team, volunteers, sponsors/partners, and Ingenuity Cleveland Ingeneers for a great #Brite2024! Congratulations, Brite Winter, on a successful event for your 15th incredible year. I look forward to attending your 16th year in 2025, and more beyond.

University Hospitals Guest Post: HCM Patient Returns to Hiking the Appalachian Trail
University Hospitals Guest Post: HCM Patient Returns to Hiking the Appalachian Trail

UH Post: HCM Patient Returns to Hiking the AT | On January 2, 2024, I was asked by the University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute to have my story added to the University Hospitals website for February -- American Heart Month. As we come to the end of American Heart Month 2024, I am glad to share their blog post about my HCM recovery story with you on my blog.

2024 Cleveland and Akron Lunar New Year Celebrations: The Year Of The Dragon
2024 Cleveland and Akron Lunar New Year Celebrations: The Year Of The Dragon

2024 Lunar New Year: The Year Of The Dragon | We enjoyed the Cleveland's Year of the Dragon Lunar New Year Celebration at Asia Plaza on February 11, 2024, and then went to the Year of the Dragon Downtown Akron Lunar New Year Celebration at Akron Civic Theatre on February 18, 2024. We enjoyed participating in both of these celebrations, and wanted to create this blog post to share with you some of what we saw.

Six Days: Ten Cleveland Metroparks and Orienteering in Geauga Park District
Six Days: Ten Cleveland Metroparks and Orienteering in Geauga Park District

Six Days: Ten CLE Metroparks & Orienteering | This year, I decided to do something different, and complete the Trail Challenge in one week. I picked the first full week of February to hike "... in 10 different Cleveland Metroparks reservations ..." In total, I hiked five days on 14 trails in ten reservations. I also attended a Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club event at Geauga Park District's The West Woods.

My HCM Part Five - Recovery: A Snowy Interview with Spectrum News 1
My HCM Part Five - Recovery: A Snowy Interview with Spectrum News 1

Recovery: Snowy Interview with Spectrum News 1 | This, my fifth HCM blog post, is about my being interviewed on January 22, 2024, by Spectrum News 1 reporter Kimberly Perez. It is a continuation of the last HCM recovery blog post, and a result of my cardiologist, Eiran Gorodeski MD, MPH, recommending that I share my story on television. I refer to this as my second "recovery" blog post of my HCM series.

Celebrating Weird & Wonderful Art: Maelstrom Collaborative Arts' Saturnalia 2024
Celebrating Weird & Wonderful Art: Maelstrom Collaborative Arts' Saturnalia 2024

Maelstrom Collaborative Arts' Saturnalia 2024 | I decided to write this blog post to thank the leadership of Maelstrom Collaborative Arts. I support what Maelstrom Collaborative Arts has created, and I was impressed by the friendliness of everyone at Saturnalia 2024. I hope this blog post encourages you to learn more about Maelstrom Collaborative Arts and to partake in some of their entertainment!

DigitalC's Launch Party: Committing to Cleveland's Digitally Equitable Future
DigitalC's Launch Party: Committing to Cleveland's Digitally Equitable Future

DigitalC: Commit to Digitally Equitable Future | I was fortunate to be able to attend the DigitalC Citywide Network Launch Party. It is my hope that this blog post encourages you to join the people who attended the launch event in making the commitment to support the DigitalC mission.

My HCM Part Four: Recovery & A.T. Hike Featured on WKYC TV-3
My HCM Part Four: Recovery & A.T. Hike Featured on WKYC TV-3

Recovery & A.T. Hike Featured on WKYC TV-3 | My cardiologist, Eiran Gorodeski MD, MPH, recommended I share my story with others on television. I met with TV-3 Reporter Lindsay Buckingham on December 5, 2023, at a special location. In this recovery blog post, I will share an update on the great progress I have made since my open-heart surgery on April 27, 2023

PechaKucha Night Cleveland: Untold Lakefront Stories & Announcement of Lakefront's Future
PechaKucha Night Cleveland: Untold Lakefront Stories & Announcement of Lakefront's Future

PechaKucha CLE: Lakefront Stories & Future | This unique PechaKucha Night Cleveland dealt with the important work of first looking at the lakefront's history and then making plans to improve the City of Cleveland's waterfront. I hope to look back at this blog post in future years after the Cleveland’s North Coast Master Plan project is completed and I am standing on the lakeshore enjoying the new lakefront of Cleveland.

2023 Twitterversary Canceled - Twitter Bird Killed by Its Owner
2023 Twitterversary Canceled - Twitter Bird Killed by Its Owner

Twitterversary Canceled - Twitter Bird Killed | Starting in 2010, I would annually announce/celebrate my Twitterversary in October. This year, with the owner of Twitter deciding to kill off the Twitter bird, and my being barred from using Twitter in any productive way, my Twitterversary is canceled for 2023. For me, the Twitter that I had known and found useful is now gone.