Wish there was an app for that? Write it yourself! 2. to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage: He contrived to gain their votes . 3. to plot (evil, treachery, etc.). verb (used without object) 4. to form designs; plan. 5. to plot. ________________________________________\\... If someone had told me in 2009 that I would author apps, I would have told them that wasn't possible. How could I write an app? I didn't know how to code them or how to get them on the market. I was an app user -- just wishing there was an app out there that could do this, that, or the other thing for me; until I got on Twitter. Stumbling Into App Authorship When the #SLPeeps first formed, there was an explosion of sharing thoughts, ideas, and resources, as I've blogged about before. One of the things that came of it was the #SLPeeps Shared Folder on Google Docs (now called Google Drive -- thanks to Shareka Bentham (@speechreka) who created folders initially). As a part of this sharing process, we decided we wanted a repository of common goals we use and discuss -- to make it easier to share our goals with others. Janelle Albrecht (@albrechtjn) set up the SLP Goal Bank to fulfill that goal, and it still exists. A little before this, Barbara Fernandez was busy writing some of the first SLP specific apps with her company, Smarty Ears Apps. I knew about her, sometimes