Tag: blogging

  • Podcast Episode #62: How to Benefit from Medium

    Podcast Episode #62: How to Benefit from Medium

    Have you experimented with Medium, the online publishing tool owned by Twitter? Not happy with your results? If that is the case for you and you want to discover how to change this narrative, then you will want to listen to FIR on Higher Education episode 62. Paul Redfern and Carina Situs from Gettysburg College…

  • Using your blog to showcase press coverage: #FollowFriday Professor 2, Bill George

    “#FollowFriday Professor” is an editorial series focused on professors’ best practice in digital communications. Every Friday, I highlight one academic who is strategically leveraging the power of digital communications. I do a quick analysis of what he/she is doing well and provide examples of best practice that can be gleaned from the individual highlighted. The…

  • Communications advice to all the people giving Marissa Mayer communications advice

    It has been interesting, entertaining and alarming to see all the criticism coming at Yahoo and CEO Marissa Mayer following the leaked internal announcement from the company’s HR director to ban all telecommuting. Numerous “experts” have voiced their dismay at how the communications was handled. Many of us enjoy being pundits and giving our opinion.…

  • Using social media to choose a college major

    Educational training and job placement go hand-in-hand. Sure, there are exceptions, but for the most part those that graduate from college have a better chance of securing employment than those that don’t. And in the United States, there is some troubling news on this front. The Pathways to Prosperity study by the Harvard Graduate School…

  • Be a thought leader (and hence a continual learner)

    If you are a professional, are you taking action to become a thought leader? If you are a student interested in a certain career path, are you communicating your learnings and building your expertise? If not, you should, says Gerard Corbett, chairman and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America. “Everybody has the opportunity…

  • Why do mothers seem to “get” social media better than CEOs?

    Trivia – according to Nielsen, one-third of the bloggers in the world are: a) Chief Executive Officers b) Chief Marketing Officers c) Chief Learning Officers d) Moms The correct answer, as the title of this post would indicate, is Moms! There is much that moms can teach the C-Suite about many topics, but for the…