Posts Tagged Social Media
Balancing Personal and Professional
Posted by Kristin in Life, Social Media on May 10, 2010
The concept of defining one’s identity online has been discussed endlessly. I’ve worked to develop my professional persona through Twitter and lately, my website. However, as I enter a new stage in my personal life, I feel the need to document and ultimately share these experiences with friends, family and anyone who is interested.
However, I fully acknowledge that my professional contacts and readers of my website (all seven of you, hello!) may not want to read about my struggles with wedding vendors, stresses of budgeting and ideas for cheap dates for poor newlyweds. So I decided I would be one of the many to venture into the world of multiple blogs. Yikes.
This blog will continue to allow me the freedom of posting about a variety of topics – ranging from first date etiquette (thank you Twitter!) and book reviews to PR tactics and mishandled crises. Everything directly related to my personal life, and my transition from single to engaged, and later to becoming a wife (gulp) will be housed on my new site.
As I work to build up content and adjust to maintaining two separate sites, I will be a contributing columnist on Just Judy Judy Judy. Thanks, in part, to a chat with Judy, I feel comfortable and am ready to be the owner of two separate identities online. Eventually, I will be moving to a brand spankin’ new website, but until then check me out at Little Miss Bride to Be.
Here’s the question: How do you balance your personal life with your professional image online? Do you use two separate identities? Or, do you take the opportunity to showcase you as a completely balanced person?
Yet Another, Dream Job
Posted by Kristin in In the News on March 31, 2010
So, the latest craze seems to involve companies, organizations and entire nations coming up with “dream jobs.” First it was Australia’s Tourism Queensland offering a job which included snorkeling, sunbathing and feeding turtles – or something ridiculous.
Then, a winery in California sought a social media guru and wine enthusiast to promote the company and wine lifestyle for six months. I don’t know about you, but all these jobs just sound like the most horrible positions in the world. Right?
Oh but wait, now The Irish Times are offering a couple the chance to globe trot about the most-romantic, luxurious destinations in the world, while blogging about their experiences for six months. GAH! TORTURE!
For those couples who are interested in applying, here is some more information. More than 1,000 couples have already applied – so buy a lottery ticket while you’re at it.
What the Kell?
Posted by Kristin in Media, Social Media on March 9, 2010
So, I’m sure many of you do not religiously watch Bravo like I do… but stay with me on this one. Bravo’s newest TV show “Kell on Earth” follows Kelly Cutrone and her minions at People’s Revolution in the fast-paced world of fashion public relations.
Cutrone is cut-throat and intimidating as hell, and infamous for the line, “If you have to cry, go outside.” (Note: I would never work at a place where employees bursting into tears happened enough times for that rule to be in place). Yikes.
A recent episode, however, let loose another strange rule at People’s Revolution: employees are not allowed to use social media.
**Update: I was informed by Katy Smith that, in fact, employees of People’s Revolution are using social media. However, given the recent episode where a new hire was terminated for tweeting about being hired, I am leaving up this post. I’m still interested to hear your thoughts about social media policies.
Sharing News in the 21st Century
Well, as many people know… I am recently (very recently) engaged. The past 24 hours have been exciting, happy, busy and overwhelming. Wisely, I waited until the next morning to start sharing the news with family and friends. This is, by far, the biggest news I have ever had to share with so many people and I wasn’t entirely prepared for the process.
Naturally, the first form of communication was a phone call to my parents and sister, followed by a picture text of the ring. Following a phone call to my grandma, I resorted to text message to share the news en masse. All of this, plus the phone calls that followed were completely expected. However, the announcement via social media was quite a task.
Congratulations tweets from Madeline Koch and Paul DeBettignies were the beginning, followed by congratulations and excitement from all of the great people I know online and in real life. The official changing of the Facebook status and obligatory photos unleashed even more.
I am so very grateful to have so many people who care about me and love me. And that isn’t the point of this post. I am truly amazed at how differently information is shared, especially huge life-changing information. The utter speed of communication and response is exciting, and alarming! I am still working to catch up, say thank you and update everyone on the news. This entire process has truly opened my eyes to communication of the future, and at the same time, how traditional communication – over the phone and in person – is still necessary, and important.
Well, I’m off to make more phone calls to family, but this is definitely a moment and a day that I never want to forget. Thank you to all of you for being my support, sounding boards, friends and mentors.
Connecting the Masses
Posted by Kristin in In the News on March 2, 2010
Though I wasn’t able to attend, I tuned in to the most recent MIMA event, where a large portion of the discussion focused on the future of mobile. Panelists argued that businesses and communicators need to prepare for the future – and the future is mobile.
I recently purchased a smart phone, and I wasn’t entirely convinced of the mobile-phenomenon until I read this article. To summarize: almost 1/3 of all Americans do not have access to Internet. Prevented by cost, location or necessary equipment, a significant portion of our country is cut off from an ever-growing means of communicating.
Read more…
Journalism AND Social Media
If anyone is keeping track, this is BY FAR the fastest blog post I have ever put together – so please keep that in mind as you read.
After returning to my desk from a delicious lunch, which included Davanni’s pizza, it was pointed out to me by @ellejam that I was quoted in a tech story on CNN in a tweet that included a link. To be honest, my first thought was spam – but curiosity got the best of me. So I checked and it was true! Sort of…
In case you didn’t see the story, here is a link and a screen capture:
As you can see by my stellar editing, my tweet was used in a CNN story – sans my name.
To provide the proper evidence, I give you – my tweet:
My feeling of complete surprise and excitement from being on CNN.com (I mean, how cool is that?) is slightly diminished with the absence of my name. I know it’s my tweet, my followers know it’s my tweet, so why couldn’t CNN properly quote me?
So my question is this: What are the journalistic standards for attribution when referencing a quote/update/post from a user on social media? I am sure I am not the first social media user to experience this, so what are the expectations? Should journalists be including user names into stories when they quote a source, even if that source was found on Twitter?
Thoughts?
Maintaining Traditions
With the holidays quickly approaching, the cooking and baking of traditional Scandinavian foods begins – for my family at least. This weekend my grandma, aunt and cousin will be making lefse and it got me thinking: Are we losing family-based traditions in today’s retail world?
Traditions have been continued in our family for generations. Lefse, lutefisk (eww), Swedish meatballs, spritz cookies and more are served every year, no matter how many times I say that I don’t like lutefisk. However, it seems that the number of individuals who know how to prepare them is getting smaller.
I am just as guilty as others. I have not watched my grandma and aunt make lefse. I don’t know how to use the cookie press to make the special cookies. Is it because I’m sure I could find out how online? Or I know I could run down to the store and buy it? Or am I just relying on someone else to know how?
The responsibility falls to me to observe, learn and continue the traditions that I believe are important. However, I am curious if anyone else is experiencing something similar and your thoughts on the cause and/or solution.
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Thanks to Dave Erickson for teaching me the style coding. NOTE: I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to make the text wrap further up the image. If anyone has any tips, I would greatly appreciate it!
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Public relations and communications professional. Passionate about sports, photography, travel, friends and family. Minnesota native, looking for where life will take me next."In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." --aaron rose