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Bill White Campaigners Social Media Training View more presentations from Ed Schipul. I feel so honored to be a part of a special Social Media training for Mayor Bill White's Senate campaign volunteers today at the Houston Technology Center (MAJOR hat tip to Monica, Laura and Andrea White). You can link to Ed and I's [...]

Social Networks for Business View more presentations from Katie Laird. (tags: social media) I taught a fun class at the University of Houston's Small Business Development Center today on social networking for small businesses.  Little did they know, they got a lesson in the art of Storytelling as well as a walk through of some [...]

Blogging for Business – Sweet for all sizes View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: business small) This is a recent presentation I did for an Internet Marketing for Small Business class at the UHSBDC last week.  It's always a challenge to know exactly what a varied audience is looking for when discussing Blogging [...]

Ike ain’t playing! Originally uploaded by davidherrold Hurricane Ike has brought out the weather junkies in us all, both in our steamy city of Houston and on the interwebs at large.  Here are some spots to keep up-to-date with the wild and wacky weather, as well as add photos, storm cloud divinations and other handy [...]

Blogging for Business with the Houston Tech Center view presentation (tags: business blogging marketing media) Thanks so much to the Houston Technology Center, Marc Nathan, Kelsey Ruger and Steve Latham for a fun and well-attended ‘Blogging for Business’ Educational Series panel.  It was a great panel that covered everything from the sociological push for humans [...]

The AMA Houston Tech SIG hosted a great Blog Forward presentation today with 3 panelists of various Blogging heritages including myself (www.happykatie.com and Schipul), Greg Price (of PKF and www.fromgregshead.com) and Michael Berry (of Ops Manager at Clear Channel and of KTRH blogs). Many thanks to Rob Roberts and the AMA Tech SIG crew for [...]

It’s always great to be in a room full of Blogging geeks, that’s why I’m really looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the AMA Houston Tech SIG breakfast panel entitled ‘Blog Forward – The Rapid Evolution of Blogs as a Marketing Tool‘. I’ll be joining Greg Price (of PKF and www.fromgregshead.com) and Michael Berry (of [...]

| View | Upload your own I had a great time with the Houston Society of Association Executives today at the Social Media for Association Roundtable.  They are really a fun-loving and curious group which (if such words were ever used as proper nouns) could be my middle name.  Many thanks for the warm welcome! [...]

I am very excited to be speaking and leading a panel of great Houston association gurus tomorrow at the Houston Society of Association Executives Social Media Roundtable. Social Media Marketing for Associations Roundtable with HSAE Katie Laird Strategic Advisor Schipul – The Web Marketing Company Fri 28-Mar-08 11:30 AM to Fri 28-Mar-08 2:00 PM If [...]

Cool beans, I got a mention and a couple of photos in the Houston Chronicle yesterday.  Thanks to Imelda, I got hooked up with a really super reporter named Cori Shropshire who was looking for random ways that older (= non-college aged) people used Facebook. We emailed and chatted on the phone a couple of [...]