What Can (Dr)Brown Do For You?
I am going to be presenting my website to his class next week, showcasing some of the tools I used to create everything on here. I am hopeful that I can answer some questions for the students, so maybe I’ll direct them to this post and have them reply in the comments. Don’t be afraid to comment, you can use multiple sites to login: even Facebook!
Dr. Brown is very savvy to the publicity scene and has been teaching at Salem State, Emerson and Harvard Extension School. He has been part of large corporations and has several published works. One of his newest ventures is his blog, which I highly recommend. Suffice to say, when he talks, I listen!
(Everyday attire for us at SSC)
After I was encouraged to enter the Twitter world from a few different people, I was at first hesitant. Why would anybody care about this information? Then I found out about the amazing community features: @replies, hashtags and re-tweets are now common vernacular. I was especially pushed on to the scene when I found out Dr. Brown had a Twitter application on his Blackberry (TwitterBerry). After he showed me, he tweeted, “Talking to Squiggy. Oh Lord, he's terrified of the big Meltdown!”
I thank Rob for his insistence on getting a Twitter application on my phone. My weapon of choice? Tweetie. Simple and nicely integrated, it allows me to post pics, geo-tags and more from my iPhone!
Lesson? Embrace relationships that are obvious connections. Dr. Brown will always be a close friend and I have gained so much knowledge from him outside of the classroom. Make sure you always get to know the people who you think can help you. Rob helps me when he sends me articles to my email, just for informational reasons, like this recent NY Times piece on secondary tweeting, or as it was worded by Brown, ‘Ghost Tweets: The Controversy (Duh DUMMMMM!)’