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Erin Mikail Staples

Erin Mikail Staples

Erin is a developer experience engineer, and stand-up comedian living in Brooklyn, NYC. She lives with her husband, living her dreams by helping folks find their "thing".

📍 brooklyn, nyc 🗽

Will solopreneurship disrupt the newsroom?

How can the creator economy disrupt the newsroom, and what should the newsroom be watching out for? The Viability of the Solopreneur It seems easy enough, start up a Substack, kick off a podcast, or host a few events — you're well on your way to profitability. Wrong. While

The Rise of Solopreneurship

How Web 2.0 paved the way for creators to well, create. The more that I dive into researching the media solopreneur, the more that I realize that we should have saw this coming. Web 2.0, or the evolution to the web towards being a participatory or social web

What is a media solopreneur?

The 'stable' media job is so yesterday — Erin Mikail Staples breaks down the media solopreneurship landscape.

On elected officials on social media + a digitally influenced political world

Twitter and social media as a whole have had a unique presence in the past major election cycle and even continue to do so now. With the second president to exist on social media while in office and probably tweeting from the toilet as we speak, along with the resignation

Product design tips from Kyle Turman, Product Designer at Slack

As I dive into continuing my education in product development and product strategy, I find myself not just researching a past history of what has been created - but reaching out to those who are actively practicing the art, and discovering what I may need to do to get there.

We’re living in unprecedented times, time to do unprecedented things.

And I’ve been reflecting more and more on a Virtual Mall created with Marco Marandiz for Elliot, and thinking about how it all worked. I wrote about the reasons we went for a Virtual Mall in a Medium post that can be read here, however, I think the root of this all lies in community engagement.