Voice Mail Archives

I've been experimenting with a handful of new social networking sites lately, seeing how they work for me, and exploring what they might do for my organization.

My organization hosted an event this last weekend, with about 150 people -- artists, business leaders, community leaders, etc. -- in attendance. In the days leading up to the reception, several people called me to ask me what the dress code for the event was.

From the archives:

I've been watching Beth Kanter traipsing across the globe over the last couple of weeks, as she traveled to Australia to give some workshops and a keynote on social media for nonprofits. She's been blogging and twittering and uploading pictures to Flickr the whole time, and I've checked in with her updates a couple of times to see how things were going (mainly to see if she had met up with my friend Jules Woodward, the Executive Director of Flying Arts in Brisbane -- she did).

I'm leaving work a little early tomorrow afternoon and driving out to Western Massachusetts to attend my 15th year reunion at Mount Holyoke College. I'll be giving a workshop on Web 2.0 for Nonprofits first thing Friday morning, which is really kind of a thrill for me, to teach a class at my old (and much-loved) college.

For a couple of years now, I have been increasingly fearful of driving my car in what I tend to refer to as "weather." Meaning, of course, rain or snow of any sort of noticeable intensity.

Len Edgerly was my featured speaker last night in the class I'm presenting at work, What's Your Story: Personal Branding, PR and New Media for Artists. (Check out the class blog here.)

Jeff Brooks at Donor Power Blog got my attention this afternoon with this post on writing like a human being, especially when writing fundraising appeals. I've been thinking about this lately, too.

I'm in the final two weeks of presenting What's Your Story: Personal Branding, PR and New Media for Artists -- an eight-week class for artists who are just getting started in online promotions and sales -- and today I spent some time firming up a few technical details with my next speaker, Len Edgerly, podcaster and videocaster extraordinaire.

Jeremiah Owyang woke me up this morning (on Twitter) to a fascinating, instructive tale of a major brand getting drawn in to a major international crisis, against their will and to their detriment, and responding to it in a predictable, though shortsighted way. Somewhere, a PR department is having a very bad Sunday.