By Carlee Mallard, on July 1st, 2010% What I learned on Social Media Day (June 30, 2010)
Yesterday was Social Media Day, as pronounced by Mashable. I only heard about it a few days earlier and I really wasn’t sure what the purpose of a Social Media Day would be, even after reading Mashable’s explanation. But as someone who is, I’ll just say, interested in social media and its future, I didn’t debate whether or not I would participate, but rather debated which local event I would attend.
There were two haphazardly organized events: the first one at Campbell University’s business school nearly an hour from . . . → Read More: Lesson From Social Media Day: I’m An Expert, Too
By Carlee Mallard, on May 18th, 2010% I found out today that I will be giving a 1-hour presentation at a conference (technically they call it an “un-conference”) on Saturday. I don’t think I’ve ever given a presentation in front of so many people at once before. And I have about, oh… 3 days and a few hours to prepare.
You’d think I’d be really nervous and freaking out, right? For some reason I’m not at all. Ok, maybe a little freaking out about how little time I have to prepare because I’m a perfectionist, but mostly I’m thinking, “No biggie. I got this.”
How is . . . → Read More: First Speaking Engagements. Scary, Right?
By Carlee Mallard, on March 30th, 2010% As some you may know, I helped organize an event this month called Pecha Kucha. While you’re still trying to figure out how to pronounce that, I’m already basking in the warm-n-fuzzy creative juices as a result of the presentations and the engaging audience.
I will admit that I was unable to focus and didn’t comprehend all of the speakers’ presentations at the time of the event due in part to being an organizer and trying to make sure everything went smoothly and in part due to the extremely distracting & noisy sorority girls present in the room. Hmmm . . . → Read More: Pecha Kucha: A New Sector of Raleigh Creative Minds
By Carlee Mallard, on March 26th, 2010% Ian Shapira recently blogged on the Washington Post asking “Are Millenials Lazy?” Ian recapped the story of young medical residents who no longer work the 120-hour work weeks that the older doctor’s worked when they were training and that older generations are accusing Millenials of “devoting less of their energy to work.”
My response to that is this: why must our generation devote our lives to extreme working hours to be considered productive & hard-working citizens contributing to society? Why is our valuing of work and life balance translated into “lazy” by older generations?
Japan has the highest . . . → Read More: Millenials Aren’t Lazy: They’re Pioneers
By Carlee Mallard, on March 10th, 2010% This is a continuation of the TEDxRTP Part 1 post. Part 1 ended on food and that’s when we all took a 1 hour conversation and lunch break. After lunch we kicked off Part 2 of the event with a comedy skit by some DSI Comedy kids. And we did the wave. A few times. It all took off from there:
DSI Comedy. Skit. They’re right (Zach Ward & Jeff Brenman that is), we are improvising every minute of every day of our lives. A member from the crowd actually stood up a few hours later and said “I’m . . . → Read More: Selected Thoughts on TEDxRTP [Part 2]
By Carlee Mallard, on February 3rd, 2010% There’s something I need to get off my chest because I’m not sure what or how to think about it. The issue is weeding out potential employees in not-so-nice ways. Example:
You are hiring 60 temporary employees for an upcoming project. The staffing agency recruits and hires a little more than that (we’ll say 70) just in case some people don’t accept the position or quit in the middle of the project. Then the training sessions are scheduled. New employees are informed that if they want this job, they will need to come to an 8-hour training session on . . . → Read More: Employers & Applicants: Both Sides
By Carlee Mallard, on January 15th, 2010% One of my best friends just got his dream job as the Program Assistant for Communications and New Media at the Morehead Foundation, working back on the same college campus where he spent his undergrad years writing for The Daily Tar Heel as if it were his full-time job. He really is perfect for the position and he’s incredibly happy being back in an academic atmosphere. As happy as he is though, he’s incredibly modest and one of those do-gooder givers more so than a receiver.
For nearly two years prior to this dream job he was working at . . . → Read More: Getting Your Dream Job… And Taking A Job Away
By Carlee Mallard, on January 11th, 2010% Because only CNN gets away with breaking the news about death. And even then it makes me want to sensor them so that I’m not constantly flooded with depressing news. It was my decision to sign up for CNN breaking news alerts to my phone or via twitter, though. I knew that they were a breaking news source– and heck, that might include death. I was aware of what I was getting myself into.
Let’s take another example of something that we all sign up for on the internet: newsletters with “valuable information” right to your inbox. We stumble . . . → Read More: Your Mailing List is Not a Place to Grieve
By Carlee Mallard, on December 3rd, 2009% Oh yes, I definitely made those scrumptious looking cheese & ham puffs, and that was one of my goals for November! Now on to a recap of my November goals with my new December goals to follow:
1. Get out all of my holiday cards before Thanksgiving. They were all in the mail the day before Thanksgiving, but honestly I would have been really disappointed in myself if I didn’t make this happen considering I’m in the business of marketing and urged all of my clients to get their own holiday cards out early this year, too!
2. Create . . . → Read More: December Monthly Goal Meetup
By Carlee Mallard, on November 10th, 2009% I discovered the “Monthly Goal Meet-Up” group on Brazencareerist.com and at first assumed it was an actual meet-up in person in the flesh thing and felt so left out! Silly me; this is an online community after all.
So now I’m really quite relieved that I can join this already strong monthly goal group and I don’t have to start one myself. See, I’ve been telling myself for a few weeks now that I need just take a few minutes to write down my goals. I took the time to write 1 goal. And it was lofty. A “this . . . → Read More: November Monthly Goal Meet-Up
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