Preview Days 2010 at Southeastern University :: Lakeland, USA. Outlet Home & Home Office - Refurbished Computer - Refurbished PC - Refurbished Computers. An all-in-one Thanksgiving meal cake? Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog. Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown, Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Boy, was it fun! I hadn’t actually spoken (voice-to-voice) with Gini before, so it was great to finally do so, as well as talk to Danny after ages and Joe after not-so-long.
Image: Chris Lott via Flickr, Creative Commons One of the questions that Joe asked us was what our blogging experience has been like. As I answered, and listened to Gini and Danny share their thoughts, I wanted to tell you why I think all PR pros should take the plunge (because I know there are many who haven’t). 1. It helps you understand what a journalist feels like when you start receiving completely off-topic pitches. Last week on BNET, I talked about the two critical elements of the perfect media pitch; the subject line, and the first paragraph of the email. Once you’ve been blogging for a bit, you’ll start being pitched. 2.
Blogging is a strange beast. 3. 4. And if you’re already a good writer? 5. - Now Available: 2nd Edition of Reputation Management by John Doorley and Helio Fred Garcia. LOGOS Consulting Group is pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of Reputation Management: the Key to Successful Public Relations and Corporate Communication, by John Doorley and Helio Fred Garcia (Routledge, 2010). is a how-to guide for professional communicators and business executives, as well as advanced students in communication. Organized by functional area (investor relations, media relations, employee communications) and by cross-functional discipline (ethics, corporate responsibility, crisis communication, issues management), the book provides a field-tested guide to core challenges in managing all the ways organizations engage their stakeholders to protect, maintain, and enhance reputation. former head of communication at Merck, is academic director of the MS in Public Relations and Corporate Communication at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
. , president of Logos Consulting Group, is adjunct professor of management at NYU. Blasted tower falls the wrong way. At :22 in video can hear someone say, "Uh-oh." Don’t Text in Class . . . And Here’s Why. As a professor, I'm not ROTFL about cell phones in class A colleague and I were having a discussion today about cell phone use in class, especially during student presentations. We were of the same mindset that it’s especially rude to be texting while a peer is doing a presentation for a grade. It’s tough enough to be standing up in front of a room full of peers; it’s doubly or triply tough to do it when your peers are (apparently) more interested in a tiny electronic device in their hands than whoever is baring his/her heart and soul by doing a presentation. A great majority of student speakers I have worked with would prefer eye contact and other forms of engagement to the appearance of boredom by the audience.
Wouldn’t you? NOTE: I do have a different view of tweeting in class, if the students are distilling the presentation and sharing soundbites in 140-character segments so that others can also benefit from the presentation. Why don’t I want them doing other things in class? Sprint's 3G Peel Case Gives iPod Touch iPhone-like Powers - Techland... We first heard rumblings of this “Peel” case back in July, and Sprint has now made it official. Quite simply, it’s a protective case for a 2nd or 3rd generation iPod Touch that connects to Sprint’s 3G network and converts the data into a Wi-Fi signal to be used by the iPod Touch itself. It’ll be available November 14th for $80 and uses a $30-per-month plan from Sprint that allows up to 1GB of data use, no long-term contract required.
Here’s why this is huge. Imagine you’re a parent of a tween, and this tween wants to be like all of her tween friends. Those tween friends all have iPhones! The minimum monthly outlay for an iPhone is $40 for a voice plan, $15 for a data plan, and $5 for a texting plan—assuming your tween will send less than 200 text messages per month, which is a pipe dream. The $40 voice plan is totally unnecessary, as catching a tween actually talking on a telephone has proven to be as elusive as finding Bigfoot. Caveats? More on Techland: Statistics for (Public Relations Matters) Sesame Street: Martians Telephone. Career Advice: Your Tenure Narrative. What is a tenure narrative?
A tenure narrative (also known as your personal statement) is a statement that describes your career: what you have done in the areas of teaching, research, and service. The statement should be a strong and persuasive case for excellence in teaching and research and make clear your valuable service contributions. It includes an executive summary and/or introduction, and sections on teaching, research, and service, and may include appendices of supporting documents. Not everything you do will fit neatly into separate categories; blending of categories will sometimes happen.
For example, mentoring undergraduates in research is arguably both teaching and research, and (depending on your institution) should be addressed in either the research or the teaching category, or both. Similarly, research in undergraduate education may have aspects that fit not only in research but also in teaching. Who is your audience? How to showcase strengths How to address weaknesses. Think it. link it. live it. Transforming Minds... Engaging culture. @seuniversity's QEP.
Blog Checklist :: End of Fall 2010. Photo : yfrog.com/1529chj - Shared by BarbaraNixon. 15 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging. By Daniel Scocco I built my first blog back in 2005, and today a large part of my online income is generated from my blogs. Over these years I made many mistakes and figured some things out. Below you’ll find 15 of them. 1. The domain name matters When I started blogging I didn’t pay much attention to the domains of my blogs. The rule of thumb I use these days is to look for domains with two words, branding potential and a .com extension. 2.
As you can guess by the name of this blog, I have always been a big fan of quantity when it comes to content creation. I still believe that you need to update your blog regularly if you want it to be come popular, but quality should be your first priority. 3. If you are blogging as a hobby, then writing about whatever you feel like is fine. More specifically you need to understand that your content should be appealing and interesting to your readers above all, and not to yourself. 4. 5. 6. 7.
It was a big mistake. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Middle school quarterback on trick play: 'I didn't think it was going to work' – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs. PR Disasters. Courtesy of @SI_24Seven here's a copy of the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated that includes Cam Newton. | Plixi. Hit-And-Run Money Manager Gets Off Easy. @gloeden31: How can you read any article and not come to the conclusion that what this guy did was not only horrific but illegal?!
@gloeden31: Don't be a tease. What conclusion did you reach? @hamburgerhotdog: Agreed. I read both links and thought Gawker summed it up pretty well. @hamburgerhotdog: Ask what I mean if you really want to know instead of assuming something I didn't write. Okay? What Erzinger did was and is horrific and illegal. If a felony would mean that his license to trade was removed or his employment voided, then this would directly affect a civil case in which restitution and punitive damages are assigned to Dr.
It could very well be that Erzinger has sufficient insurance to cover such restitution. That being the case, then certainly what the prosecutor did here was COMPLETELY wrong. But I'm not sure and there aren't enough facts presented in the public domain to give me any impression except that Erzinger staying employed would be good for Dr. IMAX Theater Opens in Lakeland Tomorrow! - Ylakeland. Imagine watching your favorite movie, or the most recently released Hollywood film, on a 72 x 53 foot 3D compatible screen; and hearing the film with the most technologically advanced sound – making it feel like you are really there.
All of these features are typical for an IMAX experience. However, few people in Lakeland are actually able to have this experience, or are forced to travel to Orlando or Tampa for it, since Polk County does not have an IMAX screen at any of our theaters. However, that all will change tomorrow. At the Cobb Theater at Lakeside village, an IMAX theater will be put in, for the entertainment and enjoyment of Lakeland residents. For the full story, be sure to check out what was written on the IMAX theater in the Lakeland Ledger . Online - Top Stories. Carol Marbin Miller has six long, deep drawers filled with child death cases. “And each one is as bad as the one before it,” she said in a phone interview with Poynter. Since the mid-1990s, Marbin Miller has covered Florida’s … Read more Tools: Permalink. Happy holidays from Google Chrome: free holiday Wi-Fi at 30,000 feet.
Not too long ago, flying home for the holidays meant disconnecting for several hours until you touched down at your destination. Today, Wi-Fi technologies allow us to stay connected even at 30,000 feet above the ground, so we can read the news, browse the web (to beat the long-haul boredom) and send that last-minute planning email before the family reunion. This holiday season, there will be more connected flyers than ever before.
On the Chrome team, we’re big fans of innovations that make our lives on the web and in the browser better—and it all starts with more ubiquitous access to the Internet. So for this holiday season, we’ve teamed up with AirTran, Delta and Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011. We were excited by the response from last year’s free holiday Wi-Fi program, and thought that this would be a perfect holiday gift to help you stay connected to your loved ones as you head home. The Roberts Method: A Professor’s Advice for Falling in Love With Your Major. November 3rd, 2010 · 32 comments Major Doubts “I’m enrolled to study computer science…a choice that was heavily influenced by my parents.”
So began a recent e-mail — one of many I receive that echo the same theme. “I think that if I continue on in computer science I might find a love for it eventually,” the student said optimistically, before adding: “but a few days ago I saw that the university still has some open slots in the psychology program…” The exams in this student’s computer science courses were getting tougher, and she began to wonder if she had missed her true calling in another field, like psychology. I see this all the time: students who question whether or not they chose the right major. Some students in this situation respond with action, switching concentrations, sometimes multiple times, in a fruitless search for the perfect fit.
I got Professor Roberts on the phone and asked him to share his advice for falling in love with your major. The Roberts Method Rule #1: Do Less. Timeline delivery gap. Analysis: 2011 Corporate Social Strategy Will Focus on Corporate Website Integration. Christmas Cards, Photo Books, Greeting Cards, Photo Cards, Photo Wedding Invitations by Snapfish: Join us 55 free 4x6" prints with your first uploadUnlimited photo sharing & storageCreate unique custom photo gifts Already have an account? Log in Home Décor for her All you need is one great photo to make a meaningful gift she'll enjoy for years. Unframed canvases, photo panels, and acrylic prints are a few of our favorites. Shop Home Décor 2 FREE 20-page Custom or Classic Photo Books Use code FAVEMOM to get 2 free books when you buy 1.
Make your photo books. 12 videos to spark educators’ thinking. If you’re like me, you have trouble keeping up with all of the great videos that are out there. I love it when others help me separate the wheat from the chaff. For my column this month for the School Administrators of Iowa newsletter, I listed a dozen videos that I thought would help spark educators’ thinking about the changes that are occurring around us. None of these are videos that we already have used in the technology leadership training that we’ve done statewide for principals and superintendents. School leaders and/or educator preparation programs could show these videos to practicing or preservice administrators and teachers, school boards, or community members to maintain a heightened sense of urgency for change. I usually recommend to administrators that, every time they’re face-to-face with a group, they show a video or share something they recently read or learned.
Here’s my list, in no particular order: Happy viewing! Image credit: iPod Nano 3rd generation. How NOT to Engage Me With Your Presentation. The Secret of Invincibility — Inaccurate Reality. I didn’t really make any resolutions. Unless you count giving myself grace as a resolution. But ‘resolution’ seems so…temporary when it comes to something that important. Anyway. I can confidently say that 2013 was one of the most difficult years I’ve ever had. Personally, professionally, you name it. Here’s a few of the things I picked up along the way. It’s hard to forgive yourself for things you won’t forgive in others. You cannot handcuff yourself to your mistakes.
There are no “should”s. Have sex with your partner even when you aren’t sure you want to. Have a pet. When someone apologizes and means it, acknowledge it. Do things that seem crazy to others but perfectly rational to you. Learn to lift heavy things. Don’t forget to breathe. Oh, that reminds me. Drink the good wine. Emotional games are shitty. Understand and accept that how you say your words means everything to the recipient, more so than what you say. Learn how to be alone.
Buy a good kitchen knife for Pete’s sake. Wylio.com makes using CC Flickr photos a breeze. Photo © 2010 Michael Levine-Clark | more info (via: Wylio ) I just stumbled across Wylio.com Bookmark the site NOW. Why? Wylio makes it simple to cut and paste creative commons photos from Flickr into your blog post by combining all the necessary steps into a simple 5 second photo sharing process. I’m serious, pasting the photo of the bicycles into this post with proper credits took me five seconds.
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