October

6 Easy Steps to Getting Started with LinkedIn Professionally for Students & Pros [video] LinkedIn is a Professional Social Network that helps in your job search and career planning.

LinkedIn makes it easier for you to make connections and leverage those connections to help you get a foot in the door with potential employers. LinkedIn can be used to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. The site provides you with tools to connect for mutual benefit like job referrals, discussions on various topics, event announcements, and much more. 3 quick facts about LinkedIn being one of the top Professional Social Networking sites in the world: Over 80 million professionals use Linkedin including: Business Decision Makers, Marketing Professionals, Sales Professionals, Startup Professionals, Corporate Executives, etc.92% of companies actively hiring in 2010 currently use or plan to recruit via social networks. Of this group, which social networking sites do you or your company use to find candidates?

6 quick videos to help you get started: What Is LinkedIn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A Good Reason Not to Update Your Skills [comic] Seriously? Extreme Unicycling [video] You may ask - Why does a blog about Digital, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations and Higher Ed have a post and video on Extreme Unicycling?

The answer: Innovation and creativity. Continually learning new things, questioning things we take for granted, and seeing things in a new light help us to be more innovative and creative in our daily lives. Not Uncle Sam in a Parade? For example, I do not know the last time I thought about unicycling or even saw one. If asked I probably would have associated unicycling with someone in an Uncle Sam costume riding it down the street during a 4th of July parade. This video on Extreme Unicycling challenged my assumptions about unicycling and what is possible. I do not know how I will apply Extreme Unicycling in my life specifically...but I do know that I'm glad I was exposed to it and I believe that it will help me to keep a more open mind and question other assumptions that I may have.

The Myth of Education - Changing Paradigms [video] Electrify the Boys and Girls If You'd Be So Kind - Daft Punk Derezzed + Tron Legacy [video] 9 Tips on How To Communicate With Writers - Funny [Infograph] When Robots Became Human? Ultra-realistic Android Unveiled #Skynet [video] Somewhere in China Stunt Drivers Play Pac-Man In Real Life with Chevrolet Cruzes? [video] Social Media for Research & Learning [Slideshow] #HigherEd. Why Now is the Best Time to Get Into Marketing, Advertising & PR ** Update** (Ideas From Around the Worth Sharing) How Other Departments Look At Marketing How We Look At Marketing How The Public Looks At Marketing How Critics Look at Marketing They Do Not Always Think About This....

Marketing Can Make a Difference Tap Project - UNICEF - Safe Drinking Water ~ Global Greenpeace U.K. vs. Love 146 History - End Child Sex Slavery Tide Loads of Hope ~ U.S. / Haiti Marketing Can Be Fun and Profitable... Kia ~ South Korea - Joy Ride (Super Bowl Ad) Learn about Europe Marketing Can Be Worth Sharing... Volkswagen - Piano Stairs vs. H&M - Kids Fashion Flash Mob ~ San Francisco, CA - U.S.

Heineken ~ Italy Case Study - Champions League Match vs Classical Concert (Real Madrid, AC Milan) Marketing Can Get A Reacation.... Burger King - Whopper Freakout to Whopper Face ~ Brazil jetBlue - Taken For A Ride Carhart - U.S. Marketing Career Advice But... the best career advice you will every receive from The Most Interesting Man in the World ~ Dos Equis. Rethink Your Gears - Innovation Can Simply Mean New Ways of Looking At Something We Take for Granted or Rarely Think About [video] Great Venn Diagram Explains How Facebook Costs You a Job.

Welcome to Nike Grid - Nike Transforms London into Giant Game Board for Runners [video + link] Ouch! What is Marketing? [comic] See How The Matrix & Inception Are Not Far Off With These Reality Warping Interactive 3D Projection Art Visuals [video] 28 Faces of the Online Conversation Prism [infographic] Mad Men Theme as You've Never Seen or Heard it .... with Surprise Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn [video] Well done - Adidas Originals “In The Streets of Paris” Stop Motion Video. JetBlue Airways New Campaign is Brilliant! If you wouldn't take it on the ground, don't take it in the air. [video] Best Hungry Puppies Ad Ever! [video] #mkt350 #GVSU. Oreo with Facebook at the Digital Center - Fishing Where the Fish Are ~ Beth Reilly, Kraft Foods [video + slideshow] Really? I think this the best Microsoft Ad Ever...Really! [video] Thinking About a Startup? - A Few Steps of the Business Cycle to Consider [flowchart]

What Stage Are You In? The Four Stages of "Getting" Twitter [infographic] Innovative Use of Twitter - What if we built our agency site using only Twitter? [video] Abstract animation to "explain" the complexity, randomness, speed & danger of the economical world we live in [video] Think Social Media is not important to marketing? 37 Screw ups to learn from [slideshare} Interactive 3D Projection Art - Visuals Projected Onto Snow & Sphere - Red Bull Off The Planet. An Important Reminder Regarding Change, Disruption & Uncertainty. McDonald's French Fries - Three Simply Red Copy Only Ads.

McDonald's French Fries - Three Simply Red Copy Only Ads via @RodgerMettenday I look 4Ward to your feedback.

Keep Digging for Worms! How Social Media Is Like African Tribal Drums [video] What do most people think about marketing? [comic] Smartphone Use, Market Share & App Downloads [infographic] What Happens To Your Tweets? A Study of Retweets and Replies.