Networking on the Network
Networking on the Network: "It's not about you. In offering advice to someone else, you may be tempted to use your own experiences as examples. Don't. Stories about your life will not communicate anything useful. If you have learned any lessons from your experiences, then that's great; you can explore how (and whether) those lessons apply to the particulars of the other person's life. But leave your life out of it. This rule has only one exception. Often someone will be distressed because they're going through a crisis that lots of people go through. You can help them feel better by saying, 'yeah, I know, I went through that; lots of people do', and leaving it at that -- just a few words.
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Networking on the Network
Networking on the Network: "Cultivate your powers of finding things interesting. If you are like most of us, you will need to learn how to distinguish your own interests from other people's. If someone is looking for direction, the worst thing you can do is to foist your own direction on them. Most such foisting is unconscious: you may not intend to manipulate anyone into following your own path rather than theirs, but if you have sewn yourself into the narrow world of your dissertation then you may not even recognize that other paths exists. Get used to the fact that some people want to make money, and that other people are interested in research methodologies that are quite different from your own, and that still other people are much more interested in theory than you are, or much less. Most people couldn't care less about the research literatures that fascinate you, and that's okay. In advising others, you have an opportunity to expand yourself by searching out and articulating a vision of greatness for someone else's life. You have to start by believing that everyone, including the person you are advising, is capable of making a tremendous contribution to the world. That tremendous contribution is inside them somewhere, it's trying to get out, and if you are advising someone who is looking for direction then your job is to identify that tremendous contribution and get excited about it. Figure out what the person is interested in. Elicit bits and pieces of their interests, then offer various alternative directions that they could pursue, and ask them which alternatives strike a chord. The process is like tuning a radio: you are going to fiddle with the dial until the person's tremendous-contribution-in-the-making comes through loud and clear. Share that person's excitement, and enthusiastically preach the importance of their vision. Their path won't always be easy, and your articulate and persuasive confidence will help keep them on track. In particular, you can help them by acting as a translator between their world and the professional world that they want to join, explaining their vision to them in professional-sounding language. Sell them their own lives. And whatever you do, don't go around discouraging people, or telling them that they can't cut it. Your question should be 'what does this person down-deep care about?', because that is where their greatest contribution will lie. It's not your job to go around trashing people's dreams, because you're not that smart."
Slashdot | DIY Electronic Paper Display
Slashdot | DIY Electronic Paper Display: "The real problem is that too many people are being paid to be passionate against their will. You may get results, you just have worry about the quality of those results.There is no point blaming people for not being that mind. The trick is to keep reading and looking for that one thing that you are passionate about, and when the oppertunity is there... grab it with both arms."
Euro RSCG Magnet: A National Public Relations and Marketing Communications Firm
Euro RSCG Magnet: A National Public Relations and Marketing Communications Firm: "New York, NY, June 20, 2005 – As journalists continue to grapple with increasing public concern over longstanding reporting practices and growing skepticism about media credibility, the rise of Weblogs is also forcing them to address a host of new questions and pressures resulting from the proliferation of this new media channel. According to the most recent findings of the 11th Annual Euro RSCG Magnet Survey of the Media, done in partnership with Columbia University, the majority of journalists are using blogs to do their work, despite the fact that only 1% believe blogs are credible.
Interestingly it is the journalists—not their readers—that are turning to blogs in record numbers. While the Euro RSCG Magnet study shows that more than half (51%) of journalists use Weblogs regularly—with 28% relying on them for day-to-day reporting, a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey showed that just 11% of the U.S. population reads blogs."
Sellout: A resource for Humanities PhDs considering careers beyond the university
Sellout: A resource for Humanities PhDs considering careers beyond the university
Wired News: Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?
Wired News: Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?: "Calacanis employs 120 bloggers and publishes 90 blogs -- including Engadget (which covers consumer electronics) and Blog Maverick, typed by billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban -- with his writers making anywhere from $200 to $3,000 a month. (One presumes Cuban doesn't do it for the money.) On average, Weblog salaries are about a quarter to half what a mid-level editorial job would pay, without the daily office commute.
'Not to mention (bloggers) get to write about the topic they are most passionate about,' said Calacanis, who claims to be on track to collect more than $1 million in Google AdSense payments over the next year. 'So, for our folks, it is like they are making money off their hobby. Think a scuba diver or video-game player making $500 to $1,500 a month writing about scuba diving or video games.'"
Wired News: Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?
Wired News: Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?: "'Nick infamously downplays the profit potential of blogging the same way Tom Cruise's sister-slash-publicist Lee Ann DeVette pretends his relationship with Katie Holmes is authentic. Even people outside the industry know it's a sham.'"
For class on Monday:
Be sure to bring paper copies of your resume and/or cover letter to class today for a workshop.
An Anchor Who Reports Disaster News With a Heart on His Sleeve - New York Times
An Anchor Who Reports Disaster News With a Heart on His Sleeve - New York Times: "When no major news organization hired him after his graduation from Yale in 1989, Mr. Cooper said he had a friend make a fake press pass and he headed overseas on his own, sending Channel One stories he taped with a small home-video camera.
His bare-bones training in Somalia was a precursor for his current assignment."
gladwell dot com - examined life
gladwell dot com - examined life: "What Stanley H. Kaplan taught us about the SAT"
Upcoming assignments:
1. For monday the 20th of september: please bring a resume and cover letter to class. They can be "professional" or "brutally honest," per the example we read in class.
2. For Wednesday, the 15th of September: Please read chapter three and post a summary to
Webct.
note: If webct isn't working with your macintosh, try downloading
Firefox, a free web browser. Ignore the warnings that pop up when you log into UVlink.
excellent written oral communication skills - Google Search
excellent written oral communication skills - Google Search
For next Monday
For next Monday please bring a sample resume to class, read chapter 2, and post your response to the appropriate webct discussion, along with any other comments you find useful.
also, if you find a link online to something relevant, please post it to webct as well and I'll move it to this weblog for our reading pleasure.
class email
Using the New UV Link Email System
All UVSC students now have an email address in the new UV Link system. Because most of you have multiple email accounts (UVSC Groupwise, WebCT, UV Link, and at least one personal account), some clarification probably is in order. Please review the following information, and let me know if you have questions.
You can access this new email account through the UV Link portal by clicking on the Email icon in the upper-right corner of the UV Link main page.
Your address is your student (or Banner) ID number @uvlink.uvsc.edu (so mine, for example, would be 10004785@uvlink.uvsc.edu).
Because this address is highly impersonal, and because you have to log into the UV Link portal to check it, most of you probably will not opt to use it regularly.
It does, however, provide me with a quick and convenient way to email you, both individually and as a class, without having to gather and record students' addresses at the beginning of each semester. I do plan on making periodic use of this feature.
What I would ask you to do, then, is to turn on the Auto Forward feature in your UV Link email account, so that I can send messages to your UV Link address, and you can receive them in whichever email account you actually use.
To turn on Auto Forward:
Log into the UV Link portal
Click on the Email icon
Click on the Options tab
Click on the Auto Forward link
Type your preferred email address in the box
Click OK
I have turned on Auto Forward for my UV Link account. So if you forget the address that I actually use (youraddress@uvsc.edu), you can always contact me by clicking on the linked address next to our course in the My Courses area of the UV Link portal (the same place you go to enter WebCT).
