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Category: Technlogy

Brighter Balloons - abstract art in honor of Artemis II mission splashdown by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Culture

Orion’s Party Hat

There’s not much to say here that hasn’t been said about Artemis program to – and around– the Moon. Watching, thinking, listening, and conversing about this go-round of…

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026 · 2 min read

Fence Post in South Carolina
Mommess

From post to gatepost: why “engaging” social media strategies don’t always get people to show up

and what to do about it. Focusing on social media engagement stats can be antithetical to actually helping people show up in real life. Because “engagement-based” social strategies…

April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 · 7 min read

Creativity

What’s your best marketing plan?

Answer: the one you will actually do. No one needs to elaborate any more than this, but I will write like wild anyway because I’m a human who…

March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 · 9 min read

Mommess

Finding order on the web

Looking wholly at your web presence When it’s time to change your brand, there a few considerations before you transition a known web presence so you can protect…

March 27, 2026March 28, 2026 · 5 min read

Abstract Art by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. All rights reserved
Mommess

IF you are going to use AI, do this first… or now

For quick disclaimer, I don’t use AI to write, or make art (because I love to do these things, why would I give them up?), but I do…

March 15, 2026March 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Mommess

weaving the www

With the wild west, a personal party, and thoughts on the web as a woman’s medium. Women’s work, I’ve been told by more than a few wise souls,…

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 · 6 min read

Artwork by EM Matteson, looks like abstract figure
Best of Mommess

Ai Ai (for now)

[Update 12/21/20255] I’ve stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions, AND it uses ridiculous amount…

November 15, 2025December 21, 2025 · 6 min read

Creativity

Road Songs, Libraries, and Hard Work Hassles

After dropping my 15 year old at drivers ed, I drove around listening to classic rock and landed at the library. Before I forget, Bob Seeger is an…

October 25, 2025October 25, 2025 · 4 min read

Research & Development

pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI.

Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it’s here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like it…

September 19, 2025September 23, 2025 · 3 min read

Nuns. Abstract art by EM Matteson
Mommess

Matchy matchy branding is going, going …

I only have a few minutes to write this. Remember when the sign that a business was “official” was that all their social channels, their website, their email…

September 12, 2025September 14, 2025 · 3 min read

photographic collage
Family

The inhumanity of over-helpfulness

In my digital world, where AI is proliferating, technological “helpfulness” can sanitize language between humans to the point where it is blocking real human-to-human communication. Let me explain.…

August 17, 2025August 17, 2025 · 3 min read

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