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Just Because You’re A CEO Doesn’t Make You A Thought Leader…

Posted on March 26, 2014 by TechCommGeekMom

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[Analysis of The Top 100 “Most Wanted” Tech Speakers]

Earlier last week Bizzabo (creators of killer software apps for conferences) put together a list of the top 100 most wanted speakers on the tech circuit. The speakers were picked based upon feedback scores from over 3,000 conferences and keynotes, search data and social media buzz. The list consisted of all the usual suspects (the top 10 are below but you can see the full list here), so rather than have the usual conversations about who we agree with and who it’s currently cool to hate (Schmidt?) ~ I thought it would be more interesting to have a deeper look into the rankings…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Found this article thanks to a Tweet by my Segway bud, Charlie Southwell (@charliesaidthat). It’s interesting to see how social media plays a huge part in most of this. And gee…I’m not on the list? (Just kidding! Give me time, though! LOL)

Take a look…compelling stuff here.

–techcommgeekmom

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A renegade tells all

Posted on March 26, 2014 by TechCommGeekMom

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It’s a dicey business to reveal the secrets of the brotherhood to the laity; look at what happened to Edward Snowden. But I step forward today to tell you that the people you would imagine to be most knowledgeable about English grammar and usage, English teachers and editors, are often ill-informed and sometimes startlingly ignorant of basics.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Here’s another gem that Larry Kunz picked up, and posted on Twitter. I admit, I was not an English major, but I did take a technical editing course in grad school, and generally did very well in it because I already had a strong foundation in grammar. (Sorry, I was never a huge literature fan, so here it’s worked to my advantage.) I agree that part of the problem that I see with journalism–especially digital journalism anymore–is that no one seems to understand basic rules of grammar anymore. It’s amazing, and yet disturbing for me to read.

Read this, and let me know what you think in the comments below. Do we need to get back to the basics for good writing? I think so.

–techcommgeekmom

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Twitter Kick: TV-Related Tweets Spur Most Users to Action, Twitter and Fox Study Says

Posted on March 26, 2014 by TechCommGeekMom

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Twitter has argued that it can supercharge TV viewing, and now has more data to back that up: a new study shows that 92% of Twitter users have taken immediate an action — like tune to live TV or s…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This was posted on LinkedIn, and it an interesting follow-up to my "Power of Social Media"-2014 edition that I wrote up the other day. There are some caveats about this study explained in the article, but even so, it shows that a)Twitter is not dead by any means and b) social media impact is not going away anytime soon.

–techcommgeekmom

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