It's been far too long since I took this blog seriously and I need to get back into it. I've been reading over the various tips from blogs like ProBlogger, CopyBlogger, etc. I decided to start specific themes and I'm looking for input regarding specific topics.
Here are my areas:
Public Speaking Tips
Teaching Minute (for the TA & beyond)
The Week in Politics (going beyond the obvious)
Higher Education Issues
Tech Philosophy (i.e. Twitter, LinkedIn)
What would you like to hear about in these areas? Do you have suggestions for other areas I might explore?
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Monday, November 17, 2008
Journalism Interviews
On election day, I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture to Geoffrey Graybeal's (one of PhD colleagues) classes. I discussed online political campaign communication. Since the lecture, I've had a few students interview me for their election analysis stories. I thought they had some interesting questions that I thought I would post here to see what your answers would be.
Here are a few of them:
Do you think that young voters were actually influenced by the information available on new media, or did they just use it as a way to publicly support the candidate that they had already decided to vote for?
Did young voters use new media to try and influence their friends to vote for a particular candidate? How did they do it? Did it work?
Do you think the way Obama used new media in his campaign will forever change the way campaigns are run?
Here are a few of them:
Do you think that young voters were actually influenced by the information available on new media, or did they just use it as a way to publicly support the candidate that they had already decided to vote for?
Did young voters use new media to try and influence their friends to vote for a particular candidate? How did they do it? Did it work?
Do you think the way Obama used new media in his campaign will forever change the way campaigns are run?
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Interesting Links
Barbara Nixon's YouTube Links - The first one about Power Point is great. I really wish I had it when I was teaching Public Speaking.
We don't have a job, but what about an internship?
Social Media Jobs
Quamut - "the go to how to"
It's about time.
PRSA, McClellan Book & Ethics
We don't have a job, but what about an internship?
Social Media Jobs
Quamut - "the go to how to"
It's about time.
PRSA, McClellan Book & Ethics
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Week in Technology
Here are some fun links from my RSS feeds as well as other items I've found over the past week or so that I thought were interesting.
Highlights from the SCNR:
Courtesy of Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu:
New Media, New Influencers and Implications for the PR Profession
SNCR Closing keynote: The transformational power of blogging
For Students:
Skills for Young PR Pros (From Voce Communications)
General:
Email - The New Interface
Twitter for Journalists
In Politics:
PoliticsOnline.com Covers the 2008 Election
Search Engine Use in the 08 Election
Web on Candidates
Interesting Blogs of the Week:
Philip Young - Mediations
Fun - Athens Door Guy
Just for Fun:
Student "Tweets" His Way Out of Prison
Upcoming Events: Wish I could participate in this
In other technology news, my laptop is very close to biting the dust and I've been on a search for one over the past few months. Here's my dilemma...I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 and it's served me very well and so has Dell. I have had a couple major service issues including a soda management problem and they've taken care of it through their 'Accidental Damage' coverage. Basically, I need a system that travels well, is affordable and if a PC, has XP (I don't want to deal with Vista).
Note: KS - Yes, I know...get a Mac.
Highlights from the SCNR:
Courtesy of Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu:
New Media, New Influencers and Implications for the PR Profession
SNCR Closing keynote: The transformational power of blogging
For Students:
Skills for Young PR Pros (From Voce Communications)
General:
Email - The New Interface
Twitter for Journalists
In Politics:
PoliticsOnline.com Covers the 2008 Election
Search Engine Use in the 08 Election
Web on Candidates
Interesting Blogs of the Week:
Philip Young - Mediations
Fun - Athens Door Guy
Just for Fun:
Student "Tweets" His Way Out of Prison
Upcoming Events: Wish I could participate in this
In other technology news, my laptop is very close to biting the dust and I've been on a search for one over the past few months. Here's my dilemma...I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 and it's served me very well and so has Dell. I have had a couple major service issues including a soda management problem and they've taken care of it through their 'Accidental Damage' coverage. Basically, I need a system that travels well, is affordable and if a PC, has XP (I don't want to deal with Vista).
Note: KS - Yes, I know...get a Mac.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Fun with the Flip cam
Dr. S takes her Flip camera everywhere...even into research meetings. It definitely lightens the mood, but of course I'm looking like I haven't showered (for the record I did, just wanted to wear a hat).
Getting back to the point, the video is a brief description of what we're working on and a little about research in general. Enjoy!
Getting back to the point, the video is a brief description of what we're working on and a little about research in general. Enjoy!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Making it to Spring Break
Well, I've been quite neglectful with the blog this week trying to get through this last week before a much-needed Spring Break. I've been quite busy since the weekend's crazy pace of technology. In addition to the normal hundreds of pages of reading, writing my weekly paper, etc...I started my first experiment on YouTube this week. I was thrilled today to get into the study groups and start seeing what the young people are going to say about the videos, their political views, etc. Research can definitely be a rush...yes, I am a geek.
Over Spring Break, in addition to getting a start on my final projects and various other work, I'm going to take 5 days to go kayaking in South Carolina. Tonight starts that process when I go to the campus pool and learn how to roll, self-rescue and generally not panic in crazy conditions that we may encounter on our trip. Though I've been kayaking several times, this is really the first several day trip and only the second time I've done sea kayaking (the first time did not go well). So, Sue and I will be heading out Saturday morning and getting back on Wednesday night of next week. We have to have 3 days worth of food and water with us and we will be taking all of our gear with us as we cruise around the waters off of South Carolina. We have dubbed it "Survivor South Carolina." Here's the schedule:
So wish me luck on my little adventure and I will be sure to let everyone know how it was when I return...if I do (just kidding).
Some interesting links from my weekly reading of blogs, websites and various other web surfing:
Monday, March 3, 2008
Follow-up on the EDB
I spent way too much time yesterday attempting to format the picture post for the EDB. Now, I'd like to write a more comprehensive report of my experience. First of all, the Campaigns team (under the direction of Connie & Dr. Sweetser) and Edelman did a great job putting a fantastic job putting this together is 43 days. Also, the Word of Mouth class (under the direction of Sue & Dr. Russell) did a wonderful job at covering it.
In an effort to spend less time explaining the whole event, here's some information on the format and background.
I participated in the educator's track along with professors and instructors from UGA, University of West Florida, Clemson, Georgia Southern and Auburn. We had a great group and we covered a lot of ground in discussing the various forms of social media available, how to incorporate it in the classroom as well as specific lesson plans to implement within our curriculum.
Phil Gomes discussed his work with intense social media training that he runs out of Edelman's Chicago office. We discussed the various aspects and uses for many social media formats. Emphasis was placed on incorporating the instruction within the curriculum because students will be expected to know it when they go into their entry-level positions. Gomes also shared what he looks for in new hires...so we can take that back to the students.
Robert French, Karen Russell, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Kaye Sweetser also went through several specific assignments, how they've used them, what worked (and didn't) as well as how to grade them. This portion was probably the most beneficial because it provided very specific assignment sheets with examples. These were included in the booklet given out to all educators who attended as well, making it easy to adapt them.
One thing I wish we had had more time for was talking with students about what they learned from their workshops. I spoke to a couple of students about what they were doing, but I would have liked to see their suggestions. Just from what I heard from the few I spoke to, they were very creative.
By the end of the day, I think there were countless ah-ha moments, lots of new relationships started and a lot of comfort zone expansion. The Edelman folks were a great group of people who provided not only great information, but were also a blast to hang out with after the event :)
Here are some of the attendees share their thoughts:
Robert French of Auburn
Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu of Clemson
Brett Pohlman of Auburn
William Wickey of UGA
Dr. Kaye Sweetser of UGA
Barbara Nixon for Georgia Southern
In an effort to spend less time explaining the whole event, here's some information on the format and background.
I participated in the educator's track along with professors and instructors from UGA, University of West Florida, Clemson, Georgia Southern and Auburn. We had a great group and we covered a lot of ground in discussing the various forms of social media available, how to incorporate it in the classroom as well as specific lesson plans to implement within our curriculum.
Phil Gomes discussed his work with intense social media training that he runs out of Edelman's Chicago office. We discussed the various aspects and uses for many social media formats. Emphasis was placed on incorporating the instruction within the curriculum because students will be expected to know it when they go into their entry-level positions. Gomes also shared what he looks for in new hires...so we can take that back to the students.
Robert French, Karen Russell, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Kaye Sweetser also went through several specific assignments, how they've used them, what worked (and didn't) as well as how to grade them. This portion was probably the most beneficial because it provided very specific assignment sheets with examples. These were included in the booklet given out to all educators who attended as well, making it easy to adapt them.
One thing I wish we had had more time for was talking with students about what they learned from their workshops. I spoke to a couple of students about what they were doing, but I would have liked to see their suggestions. Just from what I heard from the few I spoke to, they were very creative.
By the end of the day, I think there were countless ah-ha moments, lots of new relationships started and a lot of comfort zone expansion. The Edelman folks were a great group of people who provided not only great information, but were also a blast to hang out with after the event :)
Here are some of the attendees share their thoughts:
Robert French of Auburn
Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu of Clemson
Brett Pohlman of Auburn
William Wickey of UGA
Dr. Kaye Sweetser of UGA
Barbara Nixon for Georgia Southern
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Pics from the EDB (Sorry about the formatting)
Here are a few select pictures from yesterday's Edelman Digital Bootcamp (EDB). There are many more pictures available at the EDB Flickr account.
The educators were hanging on every word and tweeting the highlights.
Professional & academic educators interact (L-Phil Gomes of Edleman, R-Robert French of Auburn)
We learned from the Ninja...oh and Phil Gomes of Edelman
Ruthann Lariscy (UGA), Eileen Perrigo (UofWestFl), & Bryan Reber (UGA) learning how to teach social media in the classroom.
The students worked hard on their campaigns...one of my students, Diem (forefront) works with his team.
Evidence of the students' hard work
Cindy asks me some very important questions
Sweetser in action...show the educators how to teach social media
The Word of Mouth class served as our coverage team for the day by recording podcasts, videos, blogging, snapping pictures & tweeting. Sue (on far left) lead the team.
Connie (Campaigns team leader)
Sweetser & Me at the end of the day...
Her caption: Ready to rock some social media in politics research!
The educators were hanging on every word and tweeting the highlights.
Professional & academic educators interact (L-Phil Gomes of Edleman, R-Robert French of Auburn)
We learned from the Ninja...oh and Phil Gomes of Edelman
Ruthann Lariscy (UGA), Eileen Perrigo (UofWestFl), & Bryan Reber (UGA) learning how to teach social media in the classroom.
The students worked hard on their campaigns...one of my students, Diem (forefront) works with his team.
Evidence of the students' hard work
Cindy asks me some very important questions
Sweetser in action...show the educators how to teach social media
The Word of Mouth class served as our coverage team for the day by recording podcasts, videos, blogging, snapping pictures & tweeting. Sue (on far left) lead the team.
Connie (Campaigns team leader)
Sweetser & Me at the end of the day...Her caption: Ready to rock some social media in politics research!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Bootcamp Day!
Follow the Edelman Digital Bootcamp at UGA:
General Website & Blog
Pics
Tweets
Also, I'll be updating over the course of the day!
General Website & Blog
Pics
Tweets
Also, I'll be updating over the course of the day!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
MTV Street Team Quote
I forgot to post this earlier, but I thought it was great to meet Shelby Highsmith at SoCon08. He then interviewed me for his weekly post for the MTV Street Team 08. Highsmith is the Georgia state representative for the Street Team.
Quoted (it's towards the bottom)...
http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A04C00080098D195/User/Blog/BlogPostDetail.aspx
Hope everyone is having a great week!
Quoted (it's towards the bottom)...
http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A04C00080098D195/User/Blog/BlogPostDetail.aspx
Hope everyone is having a great week!
Monday, February 11, 2008
SoCon08
This post is way too late I know, but it's been a rough week.
SoCon08 was great this weekend. I met a bunch of great folks in various industries, doubled my Twitter followers, and got some research ideas. It is always interesting to talk to people who are just as excited about technology, especially social media as I am. Sometimes when I'm talking to someone who's not as interested, I find myself feeling a little crazy.
Friday night was a great dinner at Maggiano's (wonderful eggplant parm), where I sat with the political people and were told we were the most engaged in our conversation compared other tables. We made a couple of predictions, analyzed the Super Tuesday results, and pondered the influence of technology on the Presidential election. We also discussed the voting procedures in Georgia, using DieBold machines, and not having a paper trail when voting. I'm generally a proponent of a paperless systems because it's better for the environment and more convenient. However, we agreed that it would be nice to have some sort of receipt would make us feel more comfortable about the process. Mainly, the receipt would be for auditing purposes.
On Saturday, we had a full day of activities starting with breakfast in the morning. With my bagel, I got a sales pitch from a entrepreneur talking about his new website with small education modules for people to learn at their own pace. After that we headed into the auditorium for a discussion of the trends over the past year, important factors to consider in social media's evolution, as well as comments from the participants about their success using technology. The whole time, they were switching between the conference's Twitter page, the websites of participants, blogs, and Power Point up on the big screen. It was great because I picked up a laundry list of new links to explore...in all of my free time :)
When we took a break, we signed up for our afternoon breakout sessions. At lunch, I found myself again discussing politics, but also about Utterz and some other sites I had not heard of before. After lunch we went into our breakout sessions. I choose to go to an effective writing session and one about incorporating social media in the classroom. The most interesting parts about the sessions was just talking with other people about their perspectives and experiences with social media.
After we finished with the conference, Connie and I decided to stay another night. So we secured a room and then went over to the after conference drinks and pizza. Ok, first of all, Mellow Mushroom pizza is awesome & so are their soft pretzels. With that out of the way, we started to talk about non-business items and the beer flowed freely. It was a lot of relaxed.
Once we had our fill of pizza and beer, Connie and I headed over to our hotel. We got an awesome room (after being upgraded for free) with plenty of room, a big bed, and amazing TV. After saying we were going to work before going to bed, I think we pretty much vegged out before passing out.
All in all, the conference took a lot more energy than I had anticipated, but it also yielded more than I thought it would.
SoCon08 was great this weekend. I met a bunch of great folks in various industries, doubled my Twitter followers, and got some research ideas. It is always interesting to talk to people who are just as excited about technology, especially social media as I am. Sometimes when I'm talking to someone who's not as interested, I find myself feeling a little crazy.
Friday night was a great dinner at Maggiano's (wonderful eggplant parm), where I sat with the political people and were told we were the most engaged in our conversation compared other tables. We made a couple of predictions, analyzed the Super Tuesday results, and pondered the influence of technology on the Presidential election. We also discussed the voting procedures in Georgia, using DieBold machines, and not having a paper trail when voting. I'm generally a proponent of a paperless systems because it's better for the environment and more convenient. However, we agreed that it would be nice to have some sort of receipt would make us feel more comfortable about the process. Mainly, the receipt would be for auditing purposes.
On Saturday, we had a full day of activities starting with breakfast in the morning. With my bagel, I got a sales pitch from a entrepreneur talking about his new website with small education modules for people to learn at their own pace. After that we headed into the auditorium for a discussion of the trends over the past year, important factors to consider in social media's evolution, as well as comments from the participants about their success using technology. The whole time, they were switching between the conference's Twitter page, the websites of participants, blogs, and Power Point up on the big screen. It was great because I picked up a laundry list of new links to explore...in all of my free time :)
When we took a break, we signed up for our afternoon breakout sessions. At lunch, I found myself again discussing politics, but also about Utterz and some other sites I had not heard of before. After lunch we went into our breakout sessions. I choose to go to an effective writing session and one about incorporating social media in the classroom. The most interesting parts about the sessions was just talking with other people about their perspectives and experiences with social media.
After we finished with the conference, Connie and I decided to stay another night. So we secured a room and then went over to the after conference drinks and pizza. Ok, first of all, Mellow Mushroom pizza is awesome & so are their soft pretzels. With that out of the way, we started to talk about non-business items and the beer flowed freely. It was a lot of relaxed.
Once we had our fill of pizza and beer, Connie and I headed over to our hotel. We got an awesome room (after being upgraded for free) with plenty of room, a big bed, and amazing TV. After saying we were going to work before going to bed, I think we pretty much vegged out before passing out.
All in all, the conference took a lot more energy than I had anticipated, but it also yielded more than I thought it would.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Great Links From Today
Jobs in SM: http://www.socialmediajobs.com/
Entertaining Blog: http://www.dooce.com/
Atlanta Business Reviews: http://www.kudzu.com/
Discovering the Internet: http://favebot.com/
Quilting Network: http://www.qnntv.com/aspx/qnn/default.aspx#
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/wallstrip
Multitasking Women: http://multi-taskingwoman.com/
I want this: http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n95_8gb
Entertaining Blog: http://www.dooce.com/
Atlanta Business Reviews: http://www.kudzu.com/
Discovering the Internet: http://favebot.com/
Quilting Network: http://www.qnntv.com/aspx/qnn/default.aspx#
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/wallstrip
Multitasking Women: http://multi-taskingwoman.com/
I want this: http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n95_8gb
SoCon 08
Greetings,
I'm blogging from SoCon 08 at Kennesaw State University at Marietta, Ga. Last night we had a wonderful experience of networking with many social media folks, including politics.
Listening to a presentation:
5 Big Events that changed our lives in the last 12 months - in technology of course
<- A pic of me from last night
Watch for updates as the day goes on!
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Internet as Information Source
Good Morning,
I received this in a weekly newsletter put together by a Lecturer and Media Consultant at Grady. I thought it was interesting and not too surprising.
DIGITAL SUPER FUTURE: The Internet has officially taken over as the most important source of information – at least among Internet users, according to a study by the Center for the Digital Future at theUniversity of Southern California ’s Annenberg School
The study which is in its seventh year found that more than half of the Internet users (55%) who are members of an online community feel as strongly about their online communities as they do about their real-world communities. That’s an increase from 43% just a year ago. And membership in online communities has more than doubled in the past three years. Of course that’s only 15%. More than half of the online community members (56%) reported meeting their online counterparts in person, but they also said they have an average of 5.2 friends online whom they have never met in person. Despite this, Internet users report spending slightly more time per week socializing with friends and family in person. When they are online they are buying things, with 60% saying they have bought something (usually under $100) online, and that they make an average of 36 purchases a year online; and yes, they do say it comes at the expense of retail stores.
And in a sort of good news, bad news cliché, the good news is that three out of five Internet users (60%) report looking for news online. Of course that’s still lower than the percentage (71%) who say they are just surfing with no specific destination. The bad news, at least for my newspaper brethren, is that one in five (21%) report they have stopped a subscription for a newspaper or magazine because they can get it, or related content, online. Some consolation comes from a new question in the poll which showed that half (52%) said they would miss the offline edition of the newspaper if it was no longer available while a quarter (27%) said they would not. Another new question in the poll showed that somewhere between a quarter and a third (29%) of Internet users say they have time shifted their TV viewing, using either a VCR or DVR.
I received this in a weekly newsletter put together by a Lecturer and Media Consultant at Grady. I thought it was interesting and not too surprising.
DIGITAL SUPER FUTURE: The Internet has officially taken over as the most important source of information – at least among Internet users, according to a study by the Center for the Digital Future at the
The study which is in its seventh year found that more than half of the Internet users (55%) who are members of an online community feel as strongly about their online communities as they do about their real-world communities. That’s an increase from 43% just a year ago. And membership in online communities has more than doubled in the past three years. Of course that’s only 15%. More than half of the online community members (56%) reported meeting their online counterparts in person, but they also said they have an average of 5.2 friends online whom they have never met in person. Despite this, Internet users report spending slightly more time per week socializing with friends and family in person. When they are online they are buying things, with 60% saying they have bought something (usually under $100) online, and that they make an average of 36 purchases a year online; and yes, they do say it comes at the expense of retail stores.
And in a sort of good news, bad news cliché, the good news is that three out of five Internet users (60%) report looking for news online. Of course that’s still lower than the percentage (71%) who say they are just surfing with no specific destination. The bad news, at least for my newspaper brethren, is that one in five (21%) report they have stopped a subscription for a newspaper or magazine because they can get it, or related content, online. Some consolation comes from a new question in the poll which showed that half (52%) said they would miss the offline edition of the newspaper if it was no longer available while a quarter (27%) said they would not. Another new question in the poll showed that somewhere between a quarter and a third (29%) of Internet users say they have time shifted their TV viewing, using either a VCR or DVR.
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