Due to technical difficulties, I’ve changed my blog to Beijing Duck. It’s a terrible pun of a title, but accurately describes this point in my life.
Beijing Duck is more personal than this one. The reason for this is not because I’m extremely self-centered but because I know:
1. Some people will like reading about my experiences.
2. You [...]
I’m near the end of a month-long process to begin working in Beijing, which includes everything from applying for an employment visa to finding an apartment. This is a brief post meant to provide a tad bit of help to other native English speakers moving to Chinese-speaking countries.
I’d heard of Google Translate, but didn’t start [...]
I recently finished “Made to Stick” by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, a book with the tagline, “Why some ideas survive and others die.” The main point of this book is that sticky ideas contain a combination of qualities summarized in the acronym SUCCESs: simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and stories. Normally I leave blogging [...]
Dance Legend Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Seattle
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform with local dancers on its 50th anniversary at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle.
SEATTLE — March 12, 2008
Black American song and dance had no place in New York’s performance halls in 1957. On March 30, 1958, Ailey changed more than the relationship [...]
A defining aspect of my personality that I learned about at the inaugural Oregon LeaderShape is that I tend to be too thorough. My professor Tiffany Derville wrote a post on Idealist’s recruitment that ended with “Graduating seniors, which resources are you using to find jobs?”. I wrote what soon became a four-paragraph comment. I [...]
This post is on Eugene Symphony’s Marketing Director Raychel Kolen’s excellent workshop at Nonprofit Nirvana 2008 on the symphony’s successful marketing campaigns. An aspect of her presentation that shocked me is that Eugene Symphony has successfully kept the subscription model, which I’ve learned in my arts administration classes is dead. I’ll try to highlight the aspects [...]
This post is my summary of TACS’ Ash Shepherd’s stellar presentation titled “Beyond the Online Brochure: Tips, Tricks & Best Practices for Using Your Website & E-marketing,” which I saw at the Nonprofit Nirvana 2008 conference presented by the Greater Oregon PRSA Chapter and the Willamette Valley AMA Chapter in Eugene, Ore., on May 15. TACS [...]
I vividly remember a conversation with my Chinese roommate in which he asserted that politics are the opposite of art; no one can support both. I think this is definitely not the case, especially in the U.S.; I’m a soon-to-be arts administrator who volunteered registering students to vote for the last presidential election. A couple [...]
I can’t believe I’ve never heard of a Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) meeting or conference session with the topic of comparing public sector with private sector public relations before last night. Last night, our Chapter Professional Adviser, John Mitchell, APR, spoke on his experience working both for a corporate hospital and for [...]
I could blog for hours about the first day of the Portland Communicators Conference; however, I’m focusing this post on the breakout session that I found the most inspiring. It was Communicating Green to Customers, presented by Helen Neville of New Seasons Market. Her presentation seemed to focus on the company’s policies in environmentalism, sustainability, [...]
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