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Over the past few days I have been keeping myself occupied with a combination of study and work (yes, I know redundant). As the semester draws to an end I find that the Spring 2009 semester has been one of my busiest. Now I am not
one to complain but it has sure taught be a lot about what I am capable of and how much more potential I have in myself.
One of those accomplishments was creating and maintain several blogs which includes me finding something more interesting topics to discuss than my usual random chit-chat. I also began doing volunteer work doing advertising and market research for a small business. Another would be joining the American Marketing Association collegiate and national chapters. Then to wrap up the semester became VP of Web and Development for AMA CSUS.
Recently, I had the extreme pleasure of listening to Bob Duffy of Web Development at the Intel Corporation. He gave an interesting lecture of Social Media Marketing, gee I wonder who just wrote about that, and found out the awesome things that he is involved with. Intel is doing some rather interesting stuff to increase what he calls, brand relevance, which involves making Intel
more relevant in marketing. In web development he has found that social media is becoming a driving force in marketing. His research has found that more individuals get their information from social media than even the NY Times. I found this interesting as I rarely visit a new website or even pick up the a newspaper let alone watch the news, but much of the things I discover is from Twitter updates, StumbleUpon links, YouTube sidebars, etc.
I am really interested in the types of things Bob Duffy is involved with and would like to learn more. I spoke to Mr. Duffy afterward and he gave me some valuable insight into branding, blogging and tweeting. My takeaways from my one-on-one with Bob was to treat my blogs, tweets, and those a like as a brand; start by creating awareness, link yourself to relevant media, and become more of a voice in the social web. Bob if your reading this by now your insights were valuable and I will be taking them into account. BTW if you are wondering you can follow Bob Duffy on his Twitter.
That same night I had the opportunity to eat at Sacramento's premiere Sushi Restaurant; Mikunis. As a sushi eater I could not pass up the chance to eat at this place. I have heard so many great things about it and to sum things up they are all true. The establishment is a great hip place to eat out, formal or casual the eating is just as phenomenal.
As people graduate and celebrate only the beginning of their lives I find myself sitting here pondering my graduate, my celebration. Will it just be as joyful as theirs or will it be filled with fear of the years to come? Until the end of next semester arrives I will just have to continue to ponder but the old saying "so close but yet so far away" has never seemed to fit until just this moment.
Standby for more blog posts. Just gotta finish these finals and typing up papers and doing the extra credit. Shooting to boost that GPA.
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