Conference Mascots: Fad or Rad?
Fall means many things across America: returning to school, Monday night football, crisp air, falling leaves, and for the restless at work, conference season. We recently did a run down of the...
View ArticleTop Five Ways to Be Social at #SIC2013
#SicShingy After weeks of Timmy the mascot taunting us – SIC is here. You’ve been waiting for it, and now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get dirty with digital. Here are our top five tips to...
View ArticleCEO Secrets to Better Presentations
With several presentations due this quarter in the CommLead program, public speaking is top of my mind. The Seattle Interactive Conference gave me a lot of food for thought as I watched presentations,...
View ArticleViral Video: Homeless Veteran Timelapse Transformation
Science is starting to explore the dark territory that links our bodies and mind. From distance healing to the placebo affect, our thoughts and perceptions have been proven again and again to affect...
View ArticleIs Your Brand Trusted? Test with Twitter #askJPM
Recently JP Morgan felt the wrath of the Twitter-verse even as it helped successfully launch the Twitter IPO. The bank thought it would offer sage advice to those on the internet from one of its top...
View ArticleBest Buy Black Friday #VineInLine Compilation
This Thanksgiving Best Buy launched a Vine campaign, encouraging their customers to film themselves waiting in line for Black Friday sales and post a short video under #VineInLine. It doesn’t take too...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Rules Are Dead (For Now). Why Should Students Care?
Image from Lindsay Kinkade via Flickr Creative Commons. Adapted by Hanns-Peter Nagel Students on university campuses everywhere or learning online in massive open online courses (MOOCs) will be sad to...
View ArticleDid the Internet Kill Feminism?
Since when have “feminism” and “feminist” become such a taboo set of concepts? Why do people have such different ideas of how to achieve the goals of feminism? And why do so many celebrities and other...
View ArticleSocial Media for Nonprofits Returns to Seattle April 28th
Ritu Sharma Executive Director. Photo courtesy of SM4NP Social Media 4 NonProfits (SM4NP) has been traveling for the past three years, organizing 40 conferences in 13 cities to bring world class social...
View ArticleWhat the (Cr)App: Kitestring
For anyone who subscribes to neighborhood safety alerts, has avoided walking late at night, or skipped meeting someone new for coffee: Kitestring might help get you out of the house. Kitestring...
View ArticleWhite House PSA Uses James Bond Actor to Condemn Sexual Assault
Using Hollywood stereotypical male heroes to put an end to sexual assault, the White House’s new PSA delivers a blow to backwater views on violence against women. Brilliant move to use actors and...
View ArticleRed Cross Wins Social Media for Nonprofits Conference
CommLead-er Donna Manders tweeting during a breakout discussion at her table. (Photo: Jill Chang) Social Media for Nonprofits came to town last week and really drove home how much of an impact social...
View ArticleViral Video: Icebucket Challenge Officially Threadjacked
#Icebucket Challenge With the success of the ALS Association’s #icebucket challenge going $94.3million strong (and counting), we had a hard time picking just one viral video this week. We could focus...
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