I present to you the latest and greatest from the Schipul Instructional Films series:
Crazy mad props to Jaymac and all of the Schipul crew. Hands down some of the coolest people I know. UPDATE: This Social Media video was based on a 1950's PSA video here (it's even funnier if you watch this one too...)
I have to brag on my company's Creative
Director Tim Newton, as he has pumped
out a couple of really killer tutorials in the last week.
First it was How to Design
Email Newsletters for Outlook 2007 and more recently he threw up a
super-easy Typepad Blog
design customization tutorial. As long as I have been using Typepad
(since back in 7/2003... how the years do fly) I have consistently gone the
easy route and used the standard layout with a random happykatie header.
Actually, I kept the exact same look and happykatie header for years and years
and years - you remember the one, the 50's diner-esque with hipster kids in
cool sneakers hanging out? Good times. Now I'm stuck with 2006's
autumn theme (my plan was to change seasonally like the always adorable ljc and other fave blogs),
but my how seasonal I look now!! Right? Right? Anyone?
Sooo... check out Tim's great Typepad design tutorial. And don't
judge me for last year's Fall colors. Mmmmkay?
Josh Hallett, a social media consultant from Florida, held a workshop with PRSA Houston on the basics of Social Media in the PR and communications industry. Hi Josh and PRSA Houston :)
Read on for some of Josh's commentary:
Always a sucker for visuals, check out the 4 C's of Blogging at Logic & Emotion - a site I absolutely adore.
Thanks to Kelsey for the heads up!
Remember that feeling standing on top of the highest diving board at the swimming pool for the first time? Toes hanging off the gritty edge and the pressure of 4 kids behind you in line hanging off slippery metal ladder rungs mentally and verbally willing you to GO!! before they bake in the summer sun?
You've been watching all the other kids cannonball all afternoon and desperately want to take the plunge into that cold blue water. But when it's your turn, it's so very hard. You want to make a splash, but fear a belly flop and the ridicule that comes with that (painful) failure. But now it's time to hold your breath and 1,2,3... JUMP!
New social media adopters go through the same diving board conflict. To jump or not to jump? Treading water in the pool is safe after all, but sometimes a jacknife-tripletwist-halfflip diving
combo is just the thing to get you on the swim team.
Keep in touch for upcoming posts on Social Media Learnin' 101 over the next month. Next time around we'll talk about the Social Media Mindset and learn how to fit our brains around the online conversational paradigm.
You can subscribe to my RSS feed for automatic updates or email me for when I get-around-to-it updates at happykatie at gmail dot com. Thanks to Canadian Veggie for the Flickr pic!
