Tip of the Week: Discovering new blogs

Welcome to the sixth in a series of tips to help bloggers build communities, find an audience and get the most out of working with brands.

One of the highlights of being part of the team of instructors for the Digital Strategy certificate program at U of Toronto SCS is the opportunity to meet with many interesting and talented students. Martin Waxman does a great job of summing up his experience with the class.

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A week of firsts... #digitaledu, Storify and Spin Sucks

This has been a week of firsts.

Last night, I gave my first lecture to our amazing students in U of T School of Continuing Studies Digital Strategy and Communications Management Certificate program or #digitaledu for short.

This morning, I used the Twitter backchannel discussion from last night’s class to create my first Storify. 

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A little inspiration from Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler at the premiere of Baby Mama in New York City at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Be okay with writing really bad stuff for a long time––just keep doing it. The act of doing it, the muscle memory of it, is more important for me, because you would do shows every night, and they would suck every night, and one night they’d be okay, and it would sustain you for another year.”

               –Amy Poehler, Entertainment Weekly, February, 8, 2013  

If you’ve read my bio you’ll I recently joined a bright team of professionals to help U of T’s School of Continuing Studies launch a certificate in Digital Strategy and Communications Management.

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