Exciting news!
I just wanted to make a brief announcement on what’s new in my world. Beginning today, I’m working full-time under the CoLab program at NASA! A bit about what CoLab is:
“NASA CoLab serves as an advisor and consultant to groups within NASA, building direct and open collaborations between the public, and NASA scientists and engineers. We use technology to facilitate public contributions to NASA activities, programs and missions.”
I’m very excited to work with such a talented team on projects that have a ton of potential.
FYI, I will continue to serve as Pownce’s community manager as well as keep up with my current writing projects with this new position.
Have a great rest of the week!
July 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Congratulations Ariel! Working for NASA is a superb opportunity, and working with awesome folks like Jessy and Robbie make it that much better.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Congrats! Sounds like a very cool opportunity for you.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
They need you to think up a good way to tell the geek masses about the whole alien thing they have been covering up with out everyone hating them.
Good Luck!
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,24069817-5001021,00.html
LoLz
July 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Wow! That is awesome, congrats. Look forward to hearing more about it once you have started.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Sounds like a great job. Hope you’ll have a blast!
July 28th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
congrats, ariel. COLAB is a fantastic model for how government entities can collaborate and communicate with the public. hoping to see more of this!
July 28th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hey Ariel … Was just browsing your blog this morning and looking at a some cool pics of you and Veronica on Flickr … Great stuff. Best of luck in the new pos. (You at NASA … hmmm …. maybe try to keep your feet on the ground … he
July 28th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
so, are we going to see a blog called “art, advertising, sex + technology…IN SPACE” anytime soon?
July 28th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
RAWK!
July 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Well, it ain’t rocket science…no…wait…shit, it is. NICELY DONE AND CONGRATS!
July 28th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Nice one! Congrats on the new gig.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Congratulations!
July 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Great news, Ariel! Look forward to see how Collab connects people to NASA.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Hey that is seriously nifty! Congrats!
July 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Wow! AWESOME NEWS! When I worked at Moffit field with the Nasa/Ames folks- they were such an awesome and inspiring bunch of people to work with, and i’m so happy you scored such a great sounding gig! I”m looking forward to seeing what comes next
July 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Congrats on the new gig. My office works very closely with NASA in Houston to help commercialize technologies coming out of Johnson Space Center. We have been tracking the development of CoLab since the first WIRED article. I’m very excited to see that they’re acting like they’re serious by hiring and experienced and connected Community Manager like you. If there’s anything we can do to help – email me or DM me @marc1919
July 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
moon rocks or it didn’t happen.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
ps – congrats!
July 28th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
congratulations Ariel!! Sounds like a very exciting opportunity
July 28th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Congratulations, Ariel. That is a “high flying” responsibility which will no doubt provide you with a lot of “space” to apply your talent
July 28th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Congratulations! Sounds like a superb opportunity.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Congrats, Ariel! That sounds awesome!!
Good luck!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
congrats Ariel!!! I guess you are now living the dream of many of your followers!! me included!!
July 28th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Maybe NASA, is being run by intelligent people after all, congratulations and good luck.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:03 am
This sounds like a dream! That is so super cool. Good luck!
July 29th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Hey,
Sounds like a cool job connecting people to NASA. Do you know of other jobs like this one? I would love to do this kind of work.!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 10:29 am
What an awesome job! We already thought you were cool but you just took it up a notch. Congratulations!
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Thanks everyone for the congrats and good luck wishes!
August 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am
sounds very cool, looking forward to finding out how i can communicate ideas to nasa
August 7th, 2008 at 8:28 am
NASA? OMG!
I went to all the Space Camp things in Huntsville growing up over the summers. My only goal was to work for NASA… and then I discovered punk music as a teenager and somehow ended up in Kansas City for awhile.
What a fascinating way to get into NASA. You will have to open up a socket to the Mars Rover for us while you are playing around on the internal servers.
Good Luck Ariel, that is about the coolest job in the world. Our out of this world (har har). Can’t wait to see posts about it. NASA has done a really good job of opening themselves up to the general public via the web.
August 8th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Congratulations this is big…Good Luck.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am
i’ve been following you on twitter and have to say you’re quite the impressive one. mazeltov on the NASA gig!
September 9th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Congrats! Let us know how you can juggle yet another job in your busy schedule…:)
September 12th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Congrats Ariel and it was a pleasure meeting you briefly the other eve!
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 am
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