New Norwegian word for "community manager"

As I reported on 26 April 2008, Norwegian public relations firm GCI Communique invited people who know the Norwegian language to submit a word or term for consideration as the Norwegian equivalent of "community manager." The Norwegian language -- like other languages -- has never had such a term and the birth of social media [...]

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Your Global TuneUp™: An Introduction

In this post, we start your Global TuneUp™! Are you ready? Did you know that there are some simple -- yet critical -- ways in which most people are hindering their working relationships (not to mention their public relations, marketing and communications!) with people around the world? The result is that we are creating less-than-desirable [...]

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Tech Tool: What's that?

For years, I have enjoyed finding out about simple and inexpensive technology solutions that help international educators (or anyone, for that matter!) work efficiently.?This just the technical equivalent of finding new gadgets in a hardware or home improvement store. And I love practical gadgets! But finding out about them is only half the fun.?Since many [...]

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Read And Comment Day!

On April 23, social media guru Chris Brogan wrote in his blog: I hereby officially declare Monday, April 28th ?Read and Comment? day. Instead of your typical post (or as well as), get out there and comment on some blogs. Contribute to their conversations. Find some good stuff and add to it. ... Live in [...]

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An opportunity to choose a language's new word for "community manager"

One of the Twitter feeds that I follow is from GCI Communique, the first public relations firm in Norway to specialize in the use of digital media. I also follow the feeds of a couple of the people who work there, so I not only get a sense of what GCI Communique is doing, but [...]

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Why bother with networking sites?

Recently, one of the participants on the NAFSA-TechSIG group asked: I have been using both XING and LinkedIn for some years and have yet to find any value in it. How do you use them to gain anything from it? [Our organization] uses Facebook for our student community which works very well - but professionally [...]

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Revisiting 1995: NAFSA New Orleans

I was taken by surprise. The hostility in the room was palpable. It was May 1995 and I was co-presenting a session titled "Perspectives on Electronic Communication" with Stanford University's John Pearson and Lisa Park at the annual NAFSA conference in New Orleans. The room was packed - standing room only - with international education [...]

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Defining "pretty"

WARNING: *One* (1) adult word. Katie Makkai, a veteran poetry slammer - defining the word "pretty". All our sisters /  daughters / nieces / friends need to hear this. She begins by singing a phrase from the song "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)": " 'When I was just a little girl, I asked [...]

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The First iBand

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mh0VX74alwk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mh0VX74alwk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Behold, the first iBand with iPhones.

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