Running your own business already gives you plenty to think about. However, with less than two months to go before Christmas, have you thought about how you’ll be marking the festive season as a company? Maybe you’re planning a small office party if you have some staff or regular freelance workers. It’s also a time to remember your clients, to remind them of your brand and services as they look towards the new year. Here are some of the things you should be thinking about as the Christmas … [Read more...]
How will your business mark Christmas?
A Beginner’s Guide to Start Freelancing: 5 Tips for Women
A career in freelancing brings a multitude of perks for professionals, like being your own boss, managing your own schedule, using your own invoice template and the freedom to work from anywhere. It's a growing career path and the Intuit 2020 Report estimates that contingent work is expected to exceed 40 percent of the workforce by 2020. But women especially thrive as freelancers because they can establish their own career trajectory that’s not manipulated by gender inequities like pay, … [Read more...]
it APP, iGrow Network changes Social Media forever!
READY... SET...GROW! iGrow Network is a Social Media Marketing company that provides the best tools, knowledge, compensation and products to grow any business online! CLICK IMAGE I have just joined this new social network, and would love to hear what you think! WATCH VIDEO HERE This is “it”! The in depth interview in Mobile Entrepreneur Magazine with Lawrence Sowell, on the development of Leafit, is hot off the press. This is the most extensive interview to date on the … [Read more...]
UN Social Media Day, JAN 30 – #SocialUN
Interested in digital diplomacy? The first-ever UN Social Media Day is happening this Friday at UN Headquarters in NYC! Social media professionals, digital diplomacy practitioners, academics and experts will share their experiences, discuss trends, showcase best-practices, and provide insights into their work. The first “UN Social Media Day” will take place at UN Headquarters in Conference Room 3 on Friday 30 January 2015. All are invited to join the conversation online by using the … [Read more...]
Building Success At The Speed Of Change/Challenges, Irene Becker
Resolve To Evolve And Re-Define Winning Building Success At The Speed Of Change/Challenges (Including 12 bonus links/practical and inspiring tips!) © Irene Becker, Just Coach It-The 3Q Edge™ | (IQ-EQ-SQ) Reach-Resonance-ResultsBuilding 3Q Skills That GROW At The Speed Of Change Is My Commitment To A Better Future3Q Leadership™ Blog- 27,000+ Social Media Followers & Growing! Is one of your people stuck in a box/rut/overdrive or stasis? Are you stuck in a … [Read more...]
Tara Teng – WOMAN of ACTION™
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this young woman leader, one that woke up one day realizing that to reach inner fulfillment, she needed to expand her purpose for being. Through her journey, she found that her passion directed her into a life of activism, a life that is devoted to raise awareness on one of our plant's darkest activities: HUMAN SLAVERY. WOMAN of ACTION™ Tara … [Read more...]
A Guide to China’s Social Media Landscape, Lorre White
Design Mind, citing an April 2012 McKinsey report, has pointed out that China is the world’s most active social media population: 91 percent of people with an internet connection have used a social media site within the last six months, compared with 30 percent in Japan, 67 percent in the United States, and 70 percent in South Korea. Social media has been a presence in China for almost 14 years – since the launch of the Tencent online chat forums. In that span of time, social media … [Read more...]
CELEBRATION HO– USE™ presents Bobby Umar – OCT 22
Engagement in 2013, So Far
We have already passed the Halfway point of 2013, and that’s when we have an extensive evaluation of our new media activities during the first six months of the year. We looked back at our most engaging content and wanted to give our readers a glimpse of what policy and new media updates were most read, watched, shared, and commented so far in 2013. This Storify Exit Disclaimer provides a summary of the content. Storify is a tool that helps organize small pieces of web content into a … [Read more...]
Social Networks to promote HIV Testing, is it working?
At AIDS 2012, the world’s largest HIV conference, AIDS.gov released a new media declaration where we encouraged stakeholders in the HIV community to assess how they can use new media to extend the reach of their HIV program messages. For National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), June 27, I have gathered a few examples of organizations that have used online social networking strategies to extend the reach of their HIV testing and prevention programs. Putting People First I spoke with Annajane Yolken … [Read more...]
IPDC projects strengthen journalism in the Andean region
Freedom of expression, development of community media and high quality journalism education are being fostered in the Andean region with the support of six projects of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) coordinated by UNESCO’s Office in Quito. Among the activities carried out was a workshop to train 17 journalists from Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela in investigative journalism and self-protection mechanisms. As a result of this workshop, reports about … [Read more...]
Wajeha al-Huwaidar – WOMAN of ACTION™
A Celebration of Women™ is inspired to Celebrate the Life of yet one more activist, working for the human dignity of women. it has been stated; Huwaider, arguably the highest-profile women’s rights advocate in Saudi Arabia, famous for saying ... «Saudi women are weak, no matter how high their status,» she wrote in 2006. «The oppression of women and the effacement of their selfhood is a flaw affecting most homes in Saudi Arabia.» WOMAN of … [Read more...]
MADAGASCAR, training for journalists using a Gender Perspective
Improving professional ethics of Malagasy journalists © UNDP-A dozen editors-in-chief from the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, gathered on 20 May in Antsirabe to participate in the second series of exchanges on professional capacities and ethics of the media within the framework of the electoral process in Madagascar. The main objective of the workshop in Antsirabe is to strengthen professional and ethical capacities of journalists from both print and broadcast platforms. The event … [Read more...]
Webcast, “In the Know: Google Plus & YouTube for Public Health”, May 14
Join the CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) on May 14 at 2 P.M. (ET) for a live webcast, “In the Know: Google Plus & YouTube for Public Health.” This webcast, the fifth in a series, will explore how public health professionals can effectively tap into the engagement and networking strengths of the quickly growing social media channel, Google Plus, and the popular video sharing site, YouTube. It will feature NPIN social media experts and a special guest from Google who … [Read more...]
World Press Freedom Day celebrated May 3
ABOUT WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY Celebrated each year on May 3, World Press Freedom Day is a day to stand up for freedom of expression in all media: print, broadcast and online. It’s about the freedom to publish to an audience, and freedom to receive information as well. Freedom of expression is especially important for doing journalism, which generates public interest information, but it is also the right of of everyone. This year’s event places attention on freedom of expression on the … [Read more...]