Pride Leadership Recruitment Reception
Please join me for the 2012 Pride Leadership Cycle 5 Recruitment Reception. As a previous graduate, I highly recommend any interested parties to attend this informal Recruitment Reception on January 19th. Pride Leadership, a program of the United Way of Central Ohio, is one of central Ohio’s premier leadership development programs for people in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities. Its eight-month training program is designed to prepare leaders who are dedicated to paying forward to our community to serve on the volunteer boards and committees of nonprofit...
Read MoreSocial Media in 2012: Collaborative Businesses
Over the last three years social media has empirically changed the way businesses operate. It’s not just the widespread us of web based social platforms like facebook and twitter; some of my clients have harnessed their own internal social networks, micro-blogging, wikis, and other platforms for employees to collaborate internally. I’ve begun to wonder what would happen if these companies took these internal systems and opened them up for external collaboration with the public or, gasp, other companies. But with this premise are a host of questions that are likely be...
Read MoreIs anyone out there? How to engage consumers online.
If you’re struggling with engaging consumers online, it’s important to first understand how new standards of communicating with customers have emerged, all driven by a shift in how we use the Internet. Business websites (and “we tell you” marketing like email) are continuously replaced as the go-to resource by social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Here consumers avoid the control of marketing and customer-service reps and can get insight from your brand by other consumers, opinions that today’s shoppers trust higher than brand communications. When your brand is engaged in...
Read MorePride Leadership Graduation
I’m proud to say that I’ve completed the Pride Leadership program with the United Way of Central Ohio. The first of its kind, the program is designed to develop leadership skills to increase volunteer and board service opportunities for people in the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual & Transgender) community. At graduation I received the honor of delivering our commencement speech prior to the delivery of our certificates. Here is my speech and some photos from the event: ——- Fellow Graduates, Over 100 years ago, when Queen Victoria pressed Lord Salisbury to change...
Read MoreThe Domino Project, End Malaria
The Domino Project is the brainchild of Seth Godin and is powered by Amazon. Together, they’re reinventing what it means to be publisher and spreading ideas to people who can use them. The Domino Project is named after the domino effect—one powerful idea spreads down the line, pushing from person to person. I was very fortunate to take part in The Domino Project with my participation as a BzzAgent. With the BzzAgent campaign I received a new book each month 3 weeks before it was officially released. The current and last title from The Domino Project is End Malaria. End Malaria brings...
Read MoreAbout.me Profiles
Do you have an about.me profile? With About.me all of your online content and profiles can be accessible from your unique about.me page. Be it for personal use, or to create a professional on-line profile about.me will allow you to take all your scattered online profiles (like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and put them in one easy place. I first heard about about.me with my role as a BzzAgent. You can view my profile at: http://about.me/ryanomics To find out more about how about.me works watch this...
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