Categories: Blogging, Brilliant + free, DIY, Resources, Small Business, The Work, Tools
Summer Fridays are a beloved New York media company institution. I remembered when I first heard about them. It was likely my first full time job, slinging copy for the Quality Paperback Book Club. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, all of Friday afternoon gloriously off! Now that I’m indie, I have to be more [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, DIY, Micro Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Tools, Twitter
I just spent the last weekend grilling my friend’s fourteen-year-old niece about her cohorts’ use of digital media. Did you know that teenagers don’t use email? They love Snapchat and something called Kick? And Facebook — never, ever Facebook! Everything changes so fast. Even my opinions about Tumblr. You may have heard a thing or [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, Resume 2.0, The Big Idea, The Work
From the Onion: Company Immediately Calls Job Applicant Upon Seeing ‘B.A. In Communications’ On Résumé I love the video above. Obviously, it never happens. So what does work when you’re looking to get noticed? That’s the subject of an online class I’m teaching in April with Skillshare. Resume 2.0 is the quickest route toward burnishing your personal “brand” — [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Uncategorized
I had an amazing corporate training gig a couple of months ago. I was brought in to lead a communications training that covered effective copywriting and social media tactics to a major media company. A very funny media company. One that is wildly, wildly successful in social media. Could basically write the book on building raving [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, Resume 2.0, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Uncategorized
I have a huge respect for those who “ask” for a living. Fundraising pros, salespeople. It’s tough. I recently had a pretty high pressure job that kept me up at night. Why? I realized after thinking about it that it was the job was about asking, cajoling, negotiating. When I like to be the person who gives, [...]
Categories: Brilliant + free, Resources, Small Business, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Uncategorized
Earlier in the summer, I began a new gig writing about entrepreneurship for About.com. It’s a really great opportunity to talk about everything from fund-raising to business plans to maintaining a work-life balance. For 2013, I’m doing a little something different with my web destination on entrepreneurship. I’m going to breakdown the many hurdles, opportunities [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Uncategorized
[pointelleslider id='2'] It’s been a heck of a year. Just in case you’re new around these parts (or would like a refresher), here are Jellybean Boom’s Top Stories of 2012, by pageview:
Categories: Brilliant + free, Case Study, DIY, How-to, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, Small is Brilliant, The Big Idea, The Work, Video
During the last New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center did something new and really cool. They hosted a 2-day event called “Convergence” which focused on discussions, workshops and presentations related to immersive storytelling. I attended one of the days, and I had a fantastic experience. But what impressed me most about [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, It's the end of the world as we know it, Social Media @ Work, The Work
I was hugely shocked and disappointed to find out yesterday that LooseCubes was shutting its doors forever. The end of a very productive and idealistic era came fast, it seems. I stumbled on LooseCubes serendipitously early in the year when I was searching for a viable way out of a corporate working model that seemed [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, DIY, Literature Unbound, The Work
Everybody craves stories. And when something manages to rise above the social media fray and grab our attention, it’s usually got story behind it. That’s what I tell my students at least. Last night we were talking “real-time” marketing and the memes that emerged during Sandy and the Election. Here are a few of my faves:
