Viral Video: Chris Hadfield Rocks in Outer Space
MCDM Connect: Wine, Marshmallows, and Networks
How do you spark lively conversation, meaningful professional connections and new ideas? In one all-too short evening? An un-conference just might be the way to go, especially when ...
Viral Video: Chris Hadfield Rocks in Outer Space
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Game Night 2: EMP Style
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Seahawks & Smack Talk
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EMP Museum Game Over for Twitter Trolls
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Viral Video: Military Spouse Day
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Hey Restaurants! Let canon Show You How to Use Twitter
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Books that Talk, Taking on Literacy and Global Poverty
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Getting My Geek Back at Emerald City Comicon 2013: Part 2
Halo Spartan cosplayer at ECC with a gravity hammer.
Think with me for a moment about the last time you were looking for something,—and I mean frantically looking for something—and the suddenly realized it was right in front of you the whole time. If you’re at all like me, that was disturbingly recent. And if you were me, it happened last weekend at Emerald City Comican on a very deep level.
If you recall from last week’s post, I went to Emerald City Comicon questing to reclaim my inner geek. Well, I found it, but in all honesty I discovered that I hadn’t actually lost it, just lost track of it.
Turns out being a geek isn’t about having played the latest Halo game (I still squee over grav hammers, which I guess is kind of unusual?), nor is it about knowing all the backstories of every comic book hero (I correctly ID’d roughly 80% of the superheroes I encountered. I can accept a solid B.), and you don’t have to recognize all the artists in the exhibition hall — or, you know, any of them. As Rachel Edidin said in the panel Looking Past Your Target Audience, “Geek is a self-selecting group. It is not a test.” Continue reading
Car2go About Town in Seattle
This post was produced as part of the UW Comm Department’s undergraduate Entrepreneurial Journalism course.
By Anna Chatilo
My stomach grumbled as I walked out the door and pulled up the car2go map on my phone. Few things override an intense craving for sushi, and I was surprised (and relieved) to find five cars to choose from within five blocks of my apartment. It was easy to find the little white and blue Smart car four streets up, and I was on my way in no time.
Car2go expanded to Seattle in December, and serves 17 cities worldwide. Users can rent cars by the minute for 38 cents, for as long as needed, and may drop them off within the designated city limits. For Seattle, this means between Beacon Hill and Bitter Lake. For now, new customers will receive 30 minutes of free driving when entering the promotion code SOUND when registering, saving them 11 dollars.
Jennifer Duffy found out about car2go in January and has used it about 10 times. She often takes one home from work when convenient, and likes the parking perk. Continue reading
Flip the Media prepares for SXSW
One of the largest tech conferences in the country is almost here, and Flip the Media will be there for you.
South by Southwest Interactive starts in less than two weeks, and Flip the Media is gearing up to cover the entire conference running March 8-12. We’ll have a team of six in Austin to bring you the best of the panels, presentations and parties from SXSW. We’ll have blog posts on the major points of the day, as well as daily wrap-ups, but there is going to be a ton of stuff happening, and it won’t all make the blog. We’ll be updating the Facebook page with shorter posts throughout each day, as well as Tweeting throughout the event.
The MCDM program is well-represented at SXSW this year. On the opening day of SXSWi, Ana Visneski will present a panel on crisis communications moderated by MCDM director Hanson Hosein. Flip will be live-tweeting this event to kick off our SXSW coverage, and we’ll post an in-depth preview of the panel before SXSW. Continue reading
Viral Video: Chasing Ice
At this year’s Oscars one of the Best Original Song nominations was Chasing Ice featuring Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell. It didn’t win (well done Adele) but it did bring some welcome exposure to documentary from whence it came. As the blurb goes, “Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.”
On May 28, 2008, the filmakers caught the breakup of the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. To give you some perspective, the calving event lasted for 75 minutes with the glacier retreating a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water. Astounding.
Getting My Geek Back at Emerald City Comicon
If you’ve known me for five minutes you probably know that I am a geek. Not only that, I am proud of it. I am practically an apostle of all things geek culture: books, movies, games, series, you name it. I grew up watching Jean-Luc Picard explore the galaxy and learning to write in Tengwar. In my undergrad I won two Hogwarts House Cups for Slytherin (yes, that’s right, Slytherins rule. Literally. Deal with it.), went to midnight showings for ROTK (Return of the King) in costume, was a gold badge Red vs Blue fan, learned a lot of Japanese via anime, and became a more than decent Halo player.
By the time I left my undergrad my identity felt pretty hardened as “that girl who can write you a stellar essay on the literary quality of post-victorian literature and how it relates to family constructions in Harry Potter, while beating your @$$ at Halo and cursing at you in Japanese the whole time.” I was not just a gamer girl, but an educated and capable one if I do say so myself.
So naturally Emerald City Comicon (ECC) is a little bit of heaven. But there’s one catch. After graduating from my undergrad degree, something happened. Continue reading
Codeday – Bringing Together Students and Programmers
Participants at Codeday Seattle work & chat with each other during the fourth hour of the event in the Hub.
Photo by Hillary Kirby
Post by Hillary Kirby
*This post was produced as part of the UW Comm Department’s undergraduate Entrepreneurial Journalism course.
“I’m wide awake!” Katy Perry croons in dulcet repetition. “I’m wide awake!” Her song is like a proud shout echoing from every corner of the room. A celebration, if you will. A celebration for each individual staring doggedly at his or her computer screen in the room. A celebration because, quite literally, they are still wide awake.
It’s 4:40pm on Saturday February 16th, 2012, and the individuals in question are on hour four of sitting in the room. The room, bathed in purple light and accommodating a mass of people at least 40 strong, is located in the Hub, an event center situated .2 miles from the Pioneer Square tunnel entrance.
These individuals, mostly students of high school or university age, are busying themselves with self-made coding projects as a part of Codeday Seattle, one event of many held across the country, put on by StudentRND, a student-made organization dedicated to providing enjoyable learning opportunities to persons interested in the computer science field in and around the Seattle area.
One of these students is Stanley Wang, a junior in the University of Washington Computer Science program. With schoolwork taking up most of his time, Wang doesn’t have the luxury of working on projects that he thinks up.“This comes along and its like I’ll just put aside 24 hours and then I’ll go on,” Wang said. “It’s a nice excuse to actually go have to build something.” Continue reading
Should employees toot (or tweet) their company’s horn?
A couple of weeks ago I spent the day at Seattle’s IN-NW Conference. The theme of this year’s event was the “ Current and Future Landscape of Social Engagement”. All in all it was an informative day and great to hear from some of Seattle’s leading social media mavens. Probably the thing I’ve been thinking about most since the conference is the phenomena of the personal brand and how it fits in with corporate brands.
Ryan Hodgson & Jenni Hogan at IN_NW 2013 by Conrado Tapado
At the conference we had some great examples of very strong, well managed corporate brands – such as Seattle’s own Starbucks – and a couple of locals who have managed to build impressive professional identities on line backed by large twitter followings.
Jenni Hogan is an Emmy award-winning journalist and producer. Named by Forbes as a “Socially Savvy Journalist” she helped create “Social7 with Jenni Hogan” a live interactive one-hour talk show on KIRO 7, the CBS affiliate in Seattle. The online conversation during the broadcast trends not only in Seattle but also nationally and worldwide. Having built a twitter following of almost 50,000 she has a strong voice and influence with a lot of people.
Ryan Hodgson, another Seattle-based professional is a Senior Vice President at Weber Shandwick, specializing in integrated communications. Recognized by the Huffington Post as one of the nonprofit world’s ” Twitter Powerhouses” he has extensive experience in the digital space, particularly in social media focused on growing engaged communities for global brands and nonprofits. HIs twitter following is currently about 36,000. Continue reading
Why Content Strategy?
“Why do I need a content strategy for my website?” You might say to yourself, “I know what’s on there; I know what I’m doing.”
Maybe you do. But that’s not the point of a content strategy. In fact, that’s just the set up. The real benefits of a content strategy aren’t experienced until after all the planning, meeting, collaborating, discussing, rehashing, revising, disseminating, and education have been completed. All of this is crucial work, but it’s just building the platform, or stage if you will, that the real show plays out on. Continue reading
