Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
"Show your thought leadership, your intelligence, your humanity, your humour, your insights, your wisdom, your passion, your enthusiasm, your personality, your creativity, your energy, your self via your blog. Because in a few months’ time your next employer, partner, etc., WILL google you. Trust me on this."
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
UGA Connect sparked me thinking deeper about the shifting learning environment that information rich digital natives are growing up immersed in. This video, again from Professor Michael Wesch from Kansas State University and via Mitch Joel, condensed my thoughts and put them on a screen:
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Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Marketing, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Wikis, word of mouth | 4 Comments »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
This weekend’s UGA Connect Conference was truly a great time. The students did a superb job covering the event so check out the content at the conference blog and Twitter and all the photos on Flickr.
As always, I loved having the opportunity to speak. I was presenting a case study ...
Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Marketing, Media Ethics, Media Relations, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Podcasting, Second Life, Students, Twitter, Workplace Issues, word of mouth, writing | 8 Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
At Podcamp Boston on October 28 I'm presenting with Christi Eubanks and Mike Denton on Reputation Management for Digital Natives - and we need your help.
There has been a lot of talk about young people potentially harming their reputation online - along with many case studies. Digital Natives will be ...
Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Issues Management, Media Ethics, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 27 Comments »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Social media is shifting the communications ground we stand on, of this I'm nothing surer.
My conversation with Dell's social media team earlier in the week for the Forward Podcast showed me how it is shifting the culture of one of the world's largest companies.
And this video encapsulates David Weinberger's Everything ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Thank you to the wise Tom Murphy for pointing me to one of the most inspiring lectures I'll witness.
This is a lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams' - it is also his final lecture as he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer some time ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
What are you doing this month? If you're near Athens, Georgia or Boston I'd love to meet you at UGA's Grady College "CONNECT" PR and social media conference or PodCamp Boston.
"CONNECT" PR and social media conference
When: 19-20 October
Where: Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication -
University of Georgia
This ...
Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Marketing, New Practitioners, Online PR, Podcasting, Second Life, Students, word of mouth | 6 Comments »
