Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week #7 — College Edition

Happy Monday, kids! This week is another cool kids of college edition featuring more of the brightest young talent that are getting ready to enter the business world. Remember that you can always go back and catch up on the cool kids you missed from previous weeks as well. Enjoy… – nate 3 Cool Kids You Should Stalk This Week #6: College Edition Chelsea Kovak Twitter: @chelseakovak Blog: ChelseaKovak.wordpress.com Other: LinkedIn Stalkers Debrief: Chelsea Kovak is one of Ohio University’s shining young stars. She’s a communication major who was also chairs the Ralph and Luci Schey Sales Centre — an organization that helps more than 200 students learn the skills needed to move into a career in B-to-B sales roles. She’s currently practicing her tread out in Redwood Shores, CA as a sales intern at Merced Systems. Chelsea is definitely a mover and shaker on the rise, and you ought to keep your eye on her. When you stalk, ask about her love affair with the Dawg Pound. Lawrence Prather Twitter: @Jeenyice Blog: On conversationalmarketinglabs.com Other: LinkedIn Stalkers Debrief: Lawrence Prather is a student up at the University of Akron, with ties to the Taylor Institute of Direct Marketing. He also interns at Incept (former client) helping to create and publish content for two different collaborative blogs. His Twitter handle is pretty accurate in that Lawrence is a genius when it comes to keeping a pulse on all of the new technology that’s out there cause the interwebz to buzz. When you stalk, ask him about how he helped to organize former President Ronald Reagan’s funeral out in DC. Chelsea Castle Twitter: @chelseacastle Site: chelseajordan.wordpress.com Other: LinkedIn About: Aside from being a 4th year journalism at Ohio State University, Chelsea Castle seems to have her hand in just everything these days. If [...]

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Blogging Style Guide for the Week of July 25th, 2011

Welcome to this week’s edition of Blogging Style Critiques. Before we get started, I wanted to bounce an idea off of you that came from Zelko Kecman over at Microsoft by means of a Google Plus conversation. Zelko suggested that a Google Plus hangout might be a good way to have a Q&A style weekly get together on the topic of blogging styles where we could dig into critiquing posts and disucssion the topic in a mastermind group fashion. As The Naked Redhead would say: “Score!” If you’d please look over to the sidebar, I’ve created a quick poll so that I can get your feedback on Zelko’s idea. Would you help me by sharing your opinion there? Remember that if you’d like to stay in the loop on my blogging styles book, sign up here. Doing that will help me keep you in the loop on promotions, upcoming style workshops, and how and when you can get a free copy. As always, I promise to respect your privacy. Cheers! ~ @nateriggs For the 7th installment of the blogging style guide series, were going to look at a few media integration styles. Using media in regularly in your blogging discipline has quite a few benefits to both the blogger and reader base. First, featuring videos, images, presentations, widgets and applications and even downloadable documents in your blog posts adds a nice variety that keeps things interesting for your readers. Media styles can also work to engage your readers in a variety of ways that work to crowd source information you can use to create more content as well as show off your personality as a blogger (unique subscriber proposition). Feel free to try to dig into these examples and find a way to experiment with using media in your own [...]

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