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Jim Storer on: The Lines Are Blurring.

March 24th, 2009 | 3 comments | Getting Started

Much thanks to Aaron Strout for his tips for the almost-grad. Next up, Jim Storer, principal at Community Roundtable. Jim thinks that the lines between our professional and personal lives are blurring, let’s take a look: Jim Storer’s One Tip for Almost Grads from Sydney Owen on Vimeo. Could you describe Community Roundtable in a couple sentences? The Community Roundtable...

 
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Aaron Strout on: Building Your Network

March 20th, 2009 | 2 comments | Getting Started, SXSW

After I won a flip camera from Wendy Piersall at SXSW (thanks to an awesome recommendation from Adam Keats of Weber Shandwick Chicago), Adam advised me to get out there and do interviews with people, asking them their one tip for the Almost-Grad. One place I knew I could get some good feedback was at the Mashable/Blurb party at Six...

 
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How SXSW Changed Me

March 18th, 2009 | 6 comments | Getting Started, SXSW

Trace back to the days of old when I was a teen, writing of my journey on every cruise around the Caribbean and you’ll find at the end of each story, a bit about how each vacation changes me. On the first part of this series, I was contemplating whether or not I should include the part about change then,...

 
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To The Almost Grads – tips from Peter Shankman

March 17th, 2009 | 2 comments | Social Media, SXSW

As SXSW Interactive starts to wind down, I want to leave you with a couple of pointers from one of the big guys in social media, Peter Shankman. This is by no means the end of my posts about my time here at SX, but I felt this was of the utmost importance. 1. Take as many journalism classes as...