Former Express-News travel editor Tracy Barnett will conduct the Starting and Getting the Most Out of Your Weblog beginner and advanced courses this weekend as part of Gemini Ink’s fall semester. Barnett is a bilingual, multicultural and web-savvy travel writer, editor and teacher. With more than two decades of experience as an award-winning newspaper and magazine writer, an educator, and an author, she incorporates literary talent and a flair for adventure with today’s new media as an audio-video producer, photographer, blogger, and storyteller who crisscrosses boundaries of medium and culture. But more important than medium is the message, which goes beyond language and culture. No matter where she goes, Barnett’s travels are questions in search of answers that exist on the plane of the human heart.

Gemini Ink’s Communications consultant Jennifer Herrera conducted a Q&A interview with Barnett via e-mail with a goal to keep questions and answers only 140 characters long (à la Twitter) as an example of incorporating social media in readers own blogs.

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