Social media learnin' 101 series

January 18, 2008

Social Media and You - A Schipul Instructional Film

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...)

November 12, 2007

How to customize your Typepad design (even when you're a slacker like me)

Tendenci_home2_blogdesign_3 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?

July 11, 2007

'Fact checking your ass in a heartbeat' - blogging Social Media with Josh Hallet

Josh_hallett_night_2Josh 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:

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May 10, 2007

The 4 C's of Blogging

Blogging4cs

 Always a sucker for visuals, check out the 4 C's of Blogging at Logic & Emotion - a site I absolutely adore.

  1. Community
  2. Content
  3. Clarity
  4. Consistency

April 24, 2007

RSS in Plain English

I am addicted to RSS, but you or someone you love may not be.  This might be because you are smoking the crack or enjoy living under a rock (I kid, I kid).  Perhaps this video will help clear the air a bit.

Thanks to Kelsey for the heads up!

March 02, 2007

Social Media Learnin' 101 (Intro) - The cannonball conundrum


Diving Board Feet, originally uploaded by Canadian Veggie.

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!

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