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  • We’re not the Gilmore Girls but…

    Posted on May 1st, 2013 in HOWDINI by admin

    by Melissa Cetlin, a graphic designer living in New York City. This is her take on why Mother’s Day is important to her.

    Through all my (questionable) phases, irrelevant of my ZIP code, through the good and the bad, my mother has always been there for me. She seems to have a never-ending supply of patience, love and support. I …

  • Summer Interns Wanted

    Posted on April 22nd, 2013 in HOWDINI by admin

    Creative Digital Media Interns Wanted

    Are you creative? Do you think in colorful memes or Vine videos? Is posting social content part of your DNA?

    Touchstorm, a forward-thinking online video company and its how-to lifestyle website Howdini.com are looking for talented digital natives–journalists, designers, video experts–well-versed in digital and interactive communications, writing for blogs and social media, and being part of a …

  • How to make Earth Day relevant again

    Posted on April 11th, 2013 in HOWDINI by admin

    April is full of important days, like April Fool’s Day, Arbor Day, Tax Day April 15 and a week later, Earth Day, now in its fifth decade. For some of you, Earth Day is now old hat, too easy to ignore. But the work that started that first Earth Day back in 1970 is not done. There are certainly …

  • Carly’s Voice, a story of autism and hope.

    Posted on April 1st, 2013 in HOWDINI by admin

    The book has a very simple title, Carly’s Voice and yet it shouts loudly and resonates strongly with families with autistic children. It’s the biography of a Canadian girl named Carly Fleishmann who is severely autistic, meaning she is not able to communicate with anyone the way differently abled children do.

    Carly cannot speak or make eye contact.  She has …

  • Spring travel tips: 6 essentials for your carry-on

    Posted on March 4th, 2013 in HOWDINI by Helen Jonsen

    I love to travel. Pick a destination and I am happy to go. I have flown great distances that easily put me on and off planes for 24 to 40 hours one way, including flying back and forth to Australia from New York many times both as a solo traveler and as a mom with up to four young children …

  • About This Blogger

    • Helen Jonsen is Editor-in-Chief of Howdini, a broadcast journalist turned digital and social media communicator. She has traveled extensively and covered news in the US and Australia. She is mom to four and aunt to many. For fun, she enjoys photography, hand-painting rooms and furniture, creating costumes, scrapbooking and gardening (growing weeds mostly). She has been known to let her children draw on walls and invite their friends to do the same!
  • Blog

    • While hundreds of how to videos await you at Howdini, The Howdini Blog is where you’ll find out what goes on behind the scenes.  We blog about what’s hot, what’s new, what makes us laugh, and sometimes, what drives us crazy.  It’s our chance to share our opinions, and it’s your chance, too.  Feel free to post a comment…please!