Virtually Anything is Possible
Susan Cato sharing experiences, resources, lessons-learned in the online world
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by cato on December 16, 2009 · 1 comment
If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times. Developing a content strategy and plan is extremely critical for a successful social media strategy.
You can’t invite folks to dinner without offering them a meal.
And why does everything come back to food, anyway? or shoes - oh yeah, that’s another post.
Back to [...]
Tagged as: content, tips, web strategy
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by cato on December 10, 2009 · 2 comments
Manish Mehta, Vice President, Social Media and Community for Dell recently wrote about the value of social media in the Huffington Post.
Mehta cites that sound business strategies are “rooted in developing, maintaining and strengthening relationships with customers.” Social media enables us to do just that - if managed in the right way. Mehta goes on [...]
Tagged as: business strategy, shoes, technology
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by cato on October 5, 2009 · 1 comment
A brilliant co-worker shared this with me. Between using Poll Everywhere and Prezi - my next presentation is sure to be the coolest on the block.
Go check it out: http://www.prezi.com
Tagged as: presentations, visual representation, web tools
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by cato on September 11, 2009 · 0 comments
Looking for ways to better engage your audience at your live, in-person events or education sessions? How about polling your audience and discussing the results in real-time during the presentation?
Use Poll Everywhere to engage your audience. Poll Everywhere enables people to answer via text (sms) message, twitter, or the web and can display results real-time [...]
Tagged as: Audience Response System, Interactive PowerPoint Presentations, SMS poll, SMS polling, SMS voting, text message polling, Text message voting
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by cato on September 10, 2009 · 0 comments
Another great resource (while I am on a Twitter-roll): 8 Twitter Networking Tips: From Online to In-the-Flesh is an excellent post on how to use Twitter for networking, shameless self-promotion, and doing good things. Combine this with what you just learned from Lowrider Librarian - and you will be a Twitter star.
Tagged as: networking, self-promotion, social networks, tutorial, twitter
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by cato on September 10, 2009 · 1 comment
I recently stumbled upon the blog Lowrider Librarian (you gotta love that name) while doing some research about Twitter use within organizations. In a recent post, Twitter for Organizations, he provides a very simple, clear tutorial about what Twitter is and how to use it.
It is by far the best Twitter explanation I have found. [...]
Tagged as: guide, tutorial, twitter
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by cato on September 3, 2009 · 0 comments
My 17 year old son sent over 4,000 text messages last month. Call me old skool, but I cannot even fathom communicating that much via texts (I have trouble sending one in under 20 minutes). After a lengthy “talking to” it dawned on me that he doesn’t really ever actually talk on the phone anymore [...]
Tagged as: digital immigrants, digital natives, disruptive technology, education, sms, text messaging
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by cato on August 20, 2009 · 1 comment
In this presentation, Dr. Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State Univeristy) explores the history and future of “whatever” and its relationship to how the online world is changing us, how we relate to each other, and what we are all going to do about it. Going from “whatever [...]
Tagged as: community, conversation, digital ethnography, sociology, video, youtube
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by cato on July 21, 2009 · 0 comments
I was recently interviewed by Convene Magazine, the monthly publication from PCMA. See the article, The Message is the Medium, here.
Let me know what you think.
Tagged as: events, Social Media
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by cato on June 19, 2009 · 2 comments
Volunteermatch.org, by far one of the best “matchmaking” websites online for helping nonprofit organizations find volunteers by matching up user preferences with organizational needs - is opening up its network for public access.
What does this mean? According to Allyson Kapin at FrogLoop, it means that VolunteerMatch will be able to have even greater positive impact [...]
Tagged as: volunteer
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