McCombs sponsored the live feed of Austin’s first TEDx event and I’m a bit of a TED nut — frequently cueing up a TED talk during lunch or while I bounce the baby — so when I was offered a spot through work I was thrilled. Here below is the info from the TEDxAustin speaker’s [...]
I’m thrilled to be teaching a Webinar, with Tracy Mueller, about how we put together an online magazine. (And viola! I’m a higher ed expert.)
The Webinar consists of two pieces: An hour live with Tracy leading with a managing editor’s perspective, and an hour of pre-recorded tutorial with me going through the technical steps.
I’ll post any [...]
Paul Walker, special assistant to the dean on social media, put together a day-long UT Social Media Collaborative event yesterday. Here are some notes from my sketchbook.
S. Craig Watkins author of “The Young and the Digital” asks, Has social media made us TOO social?
Derek Sivers told me to watch this, so I did. You should too.
My notes from the talk: Most sounds is accidental and unpleasant.
Four major ways it affects us:
Psychological – breathing, heartrate, brainwaves
12 cycles per minute is soothing – waves, sleepers breathing
Psychological – music, birdsong, make you feel
“Music is the most powerful sound there is.”
Cognitive – can’t [...]
Tim Walker invited Natanya Anderson and myself to join him on a social media panel at the Association for University Business and Economic Research conference held at the Driskoll Hotel. Here is the full audio and a few pics. I posted a few more at Flickr.
Tim Walker’s Social Media Panel.mp3
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Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
Seth Godin says
Blogging is free. It doesn’t matter if anyone reads it. What matters is the humility that comes from writing it. What matters is the meta-cognition of thinking about what you’re going to say. How do you explain yourself…How do you force yourself to describe, [...]