About
Background Info
Shai Coggins is a passionate participant of life. She loves learning and enjoys sharing her knowledge and expertise in various aspects of her eclectic life.
Shai is a published writer with various bylines to her credit – from Elle Magazine to Woman Today. She is also a published children’s book author. She also wrote for About.com, a company of The New York Times.
She also co-founded b5media, Inc, an online media network based in Toronto, Canada, which raised approximately US$10M in funding in 2007-2008.
Shai has been interviewed and featured in various media outlets worldwide – from television (ABS-CBN) to radio (SBS Radio Australia) and magazines (Reader’s Digest) to newspapers (The Advertiser, Sydney Morning Herald, Manila Bulletin, etc) – plus a number of web publications. She has been included in lists like “Most Influential Women in Technology: Bloggers” by Fast Company in 2009, among others. See here for details of her press/media mentions.
Although her work seems primarily in the field of print and online media, Shai was actually trained in psychology with a Masters’ Degree in Applied Psychology and a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. She was working on getting registered in Australia and was practicing in the field of disabilities before she went on leave early in 2007. Currently, she is exploring another career transformation, as she enrolled in a postgraduate programme to study Master of Teaching (Special Education).
Shai is also an individual with a flair for creative expression. Some of her artwork is in various collections worldwide. She loves painting, collage, mixed media, and different forms of craft.
She is also a keen traveller, having visited about 50 cities around the world. Originally from Manila, Shai has also lived in the USA and Singapore – before calling Australia home. She is now based in Adelaide with her husband and two young children.
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What Others Say…
- “Shai has a wealth of reading material with different projects, arts and crafts, and news in general. I promise you, a visit to her blog will be time well spend. I’ve come to think of Shai Coggins’ blog as a virtual Target store. I may go in for one thing, but by the time I leave I have an entire cart full of goodies!” – Kari Rohl (of Urban Wallflower), on Someone to Look Up To
- “Shai Coggins, she’s the goddess of all things blog. She’s a very interesting piece of work!” – Simon (of gtvone, absolute ramblings)
- “The rather intellectually scrummy and exceptionally clever Shai Coggins (in another life she would have either have been burnt at the stake for being too clever or called a ‘polymath’)…” – by Lee Hopkins, Better Communication Results, from this post
