Steven Goldman

Teaching classes on Skillshare might be a nice way to use your skills.

I have an MPAff from UT-Austin; I think the big takeaway career offices should be offering is if you have imagination, you can apply the degree and skills in a wide variety of places:
–freelance analyst for energy consulting practice
–communications consultant for startup nonprofit
–postgrad fellow at one government agency
–researcher/analyst…[Read more]

Allison: For restaurants, hop over to Washingtonian.com and look at their Cheap Eats directory; it’s sortable by neighborhood and has a lot of great and inexpensive places.

It’s a tough thing to pick: we ended up going with an R.E.M. song we both liked. We’re not great dancers, so we wanted something that wouldn’t be too complicated to dance to, but wouldn’t be too cliche either.

(Her brother had a funny moment with his and his wife’s first dance: the band put the tape with the song in on the wrong side, so…[Read more]

Warren Beatty played a great (if satirical) Senator in Bulworth. Also, The West Wing had quite a few excellent actors playing government employees across its seven seasons, as did The Wire.

Mark:

Any good examples of training venues on the tactical level, especially for communications practitioners from non PR/advertising/marketing educational backgrounds (i.e., someone who hasn’t studied ICM)?

–Steven

It’s less social, certainly, but that doesn’t stop people from spreading your messages and content. However, it won’t feel as transparent to the user (i.e., without the ability to leave feedback, they may be less inclined to spread your content for you, so they’ll just read it, shrug and leave the site). Your staff would have have to spend time…[Read more]

4b – Is recognition necessarily about hit rate/page views, or are there other qualifiers, like professional associations, previous publications (i.e., do they blog but also write/have written for larger print/Web publications), or personal qualifications?

I’d add to Danielle’s comment and argue that the moral of the story is not just decency… it’s about engagement, being actively interested/involved in the world around us. Empathy helps one to put oneself in others’ shoes, so that when we do anything, from asking for data to implementing a program to ordering dinner, we consider the people we…[Read more]

Trisha:

I just found this discussion, so I’m pretty late to the party, but…

There was a lot of discussion at SXSW Interactive this year about incorporating location-based games into advocacy and messaging, particularly using social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla, where you go places, “check in” using a mobile app, and have different…[Read more]

Sandy: why a math minor? Why not a set of coursework in economics, finance or statistics to give you an analytical grounding? Business finance or public finance classes would help with budget planning/management.