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How I use Google Reader without going insane

by amy mengel on September 17, 2009

It’s a never-ending refrain in the social media world: “There’s just so much content out there!” So many good blogs to read and think about. For a while my Google Reader was getting out of control as I continued to add RSS feeds.
I’ve tried various ways to get a handle on the many blogs I [...]

Tagged as: Blogging, blogs, content, feeds, google, postrank, reader, rss, socialmedia

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Back to school: 10 years later, what has changed in PR?

by amy mengel on August 30, 2009

This August marks 10 years since I started my freshman year of college, and while it doesn’t seem as though I should be that far removed from today’s college freshmen, consider this list:

I did not own a cell phone and would not get one for two years.
I did not have a laptop, nor did many [...]

Tagged as: adapt, beloit college, college, communications, facebook, google, pr, Public Relations, retrospective, students

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Facebook dominates how people share content on the Web

by amy mengel on August 17, 2009

Check out this chart was posted last month to Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook is the most popular platform for sharing content — even surpassing e-mail:

It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that sites like Google Reader have attempted to become more Facebook-like recently, adding the ability to follow friends and “like” links or posts. Delicious also recently [...]

Tagged as: chart, content sharing, delicious, digg, email, facebook, google, reddit, socialmedia, stumbleupon

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3 reasons even “social media types” still need a resume

by amy mengel on July 27, 2009

Remember Elle Woods and her scented, pink-paper resume in Legally Blonde? She’d be an anomoly today, as most people don’t print paper resumes anymore. But despite lamentations that “Google is the new resume” or “Resumes are useless in the Internet age,” you still need one if you plan to apply for a position at a [...]

Tagged as: BestBuy, blog, candidate, facebook, friendfeed, google, hiring, HR, job, Legally Blonde, linkedin, posterous, resume, socialmedia, twitter

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Michael Arrington isn’t a journalist

by amy mengel on July 17, 2009

If you’ve been obsessed with the Tour de France and haven’t been checking any other media outlets this week (raises hand), you may have missed the Internet scandal/dust-up/spat of the week between Michael Arrington at TechCrunch and the boys at Twitter. It’s been blogged to death, so I’ll keep this one short.
The :20 second summary [...]

Tagged as: bloggers, ethics, google, Guy kawasaki, journalism, Michael Arrington, pr, TechCrunch, twitter

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