About
About Myrna the Minx, a.k.a. Tracy Viselli
Tracy Viselli is an online media strategist, blogger, political activist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Nevada Interactive Media and Summit. As Myrna the Minx, Viselli has been raising hell for years at her political placeblog Reno and Its Discontents, but her online media exploits extend far beyond Reno, Nevada. Viselli is a contributor to The Political Voices Of Women and blogs about women’s rights at Care2.org. She was a part of the TwitterVoteReport team and continues to explore the possibilities for activism on Twitter as well as experiment with government transparency and crowdsourcing in projects soon to be announced. Viselli is featured weekly in the National Journal’s Bloggers Poll and her online work has been mentioned by a variety of national and international media outlets including; the UK TimesOnline, Politico, Huffington Post, National Journal, Hotline, PBS’ Media Shift, the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Reno News & Review. She is also a member of Women In Politics and Technology (WIPT) and WomenWhoTech. You can find Viselli on LinkedIn, Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter.
Viselli is passionate about the role social media can play in bridging the gap between citizens and their government and has been involved in several projects working to that end including Twitter Vote Report and the campaign to license presidential primary debates through Creative Commons. She also provides online media strategy consulting services to individuals, companies, and advocacy groups.
Viselli earned an M.A. in Teaching Writing and Literature at George Mason University and has spent most of her career working in technology management, strategic planning, and assessment in higher education. In her newest day job, Viselli uses her online expertise with social media as a Senior Manager at QuinStreet Media. She is one of those lucky bloggers who actually landed a job because of her blogging.
Reno and Its Discontents is Viselli’s pet project. Discontents is open to anyone that wants to contribute as long as they follow the house rules (see below). There are plenty of other joints that have professionals writing about us, the movies we see, the places we gather. Discontents wants to be the place where you and you and you tell us about Reno.
Post your events, join our Flickr pool and get your photos featured in Reno Blow-Up, write about something strange you saw in your neighborhood recently, tell us about a restaurant you like, attend a concert and send us your review about the artist or the venue, tell us what you like or don’t like about living in Reno, submit a CD review. Really! We really want you to. We want to be your repository for all things fashionable and unfashionable in, around, and about Reno. We even put up that trashy ad featuring Paris Hilton sucking on a popsicle begging you to help us. How could you not notice that? Help us already! Can’t you see we’re groveling? Its so undignified.
To Post: go to REGISTER, then login and go to site admin, and WRITE. Write in the boxes provided, pick a category and hit PUBLISH. Instructions for posting can be found here. Your first post will stay in draft form until approved, but after that, the sky’s the limit. Please try and keep this site Renocentric. Only Myrna the Minx gets to deviate at will because she’s the boss.
House Rules:
Be respectful and refrain from using racial, ethnic gender, religious or sexuality slurs.
Please don’t post anything that could get me/you/this site sued. That includes copyrighted and libelous information. You are responsible for what you post. The administrator of this site is not responsible for what you write. And if it comes down to saving me/this site or protecting your identity, I choose me .
Know that excessive profanity may get your post deleted.
If you act like a fool too often, your account may be suspended.
What constitutes a violation of the rules will be determined at the sole discretion of Myrna the Minx.
Okay, Go!
Myrna the Minx
“Soon Myrna’s brutal social manner had driven my courtiers from the table and we were left alone, all cold coffee and hot words.”
Ignatius J. Reilly A Confederacy of Dunces, p.161
FAQ
Why Discontents?
What can I say? I just like to make Freudian references–it’s a problem I have–and its my site so I can do what I want. Casino or non-casino? Will Reno be able to reconcile its previous Vegas like aspirations (sin is in as they say) with its new drive to become the condo capital of the world? It makes me think of the conflict between human instinct and civilization outlined in Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. There’s your allusion.
Who can post?
Anyone who follows the house rules above and can write in complete sentences that are at least mildly interesting and Renocentric. This is meant to be a community site as long as it remains administratively feasiable.
What’s WEFI?
WEFI is an abbreviated name for the intersection of West and First Streets and a tongue in cheek play on the districts of major cities such as NoLIta and SOHO in New York or SOMA in San Francisco.
Who’s Myrna the Minx?
Myrna the Minx lives downtown in the WEFI area and would like to see it become an urban center much like San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter or Washington D.C.’s Dupont Circle. Myrna is also the boss of you here.
