Jenny Schmitt bio:
Jenny-Rebecca Schmitt is a veteran public relations and marketing professional, trainer and sought-after public speaker. Her 15-year marketing and communications career includes experience in the fields of sports marketing, nonprofit marketing, healthcare communications, and public relations.
We’re big fans of TED and thankful they share the videos from their incredible roster of speakers. This talk from Nicholas Christakis discusses the influence of our vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. He tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know. After watching the video, we were left with two questions: what’s the influence of our own network? are we even aware of its influence on us?
What do you think? What’s the influence of your network?
We originally created a list of a dozen upcoming social media conferences and events in Atlanta. Since that posting more than a month ago, we updated, revised and added to the list ending up with 17 events. Rather than continuing to update a dated post, enjoy this fresh post with the 13 upcoming social media conferences and events, from today to the end of the year, happening here in the ATL.
If you are coming to any of these conferences or headed to Atlanta for the first time, let’s be social and connect while you’re here. And the * notation? Consider it a disclaimer because we’ll be presenting.
(Know about a conference we missed? Send us an email and let us know.)
The importance of the visual story can never be underestimated and some might say, it’s more important than ever in today’s 24/7 world.
Photographs do more than document history — they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can’t look away — or back.
While we can get lost in the details of social media, its rise as new channels and its growth and accessibility around the world is changing the very fabric of societies. In this outstanding presentation by Clay Shirky at TED, he offers a mesmerizing look at how social media and texting are changing – and have changed – our understanding of world issues and events. This video is certain to inspire you to start a conversation, listen to the news more closely, and most importantly, to step back and look at how our undestanding of news and events is direcly influenced by citizens’ experiences.
