July 31, 2009
by Alex Priest
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My best friend Paul is the most amazing person I have ever known, without question. He’s a tremendous friend and despite being thousands of miles away, I feel closer to him than many people I’ve known my entire life. Yesterday … Continue reading
July 30, 2009
by Alex Priest
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The Washington Post this morning had a lot of interesting news stories. Some of them pissed me off and others made me smile but one really caught my attention. Naturally, it was about twitter.
This evening at Wolf Trap, the National Symphony Orchestra’s conductor Emil de Cou will be tweeting to the audience during the performance. They won’t be tweets like, “Check it out I’m waving my arms in front of a big crowd at Wolf Trap!” but instead things like “In my score Beethoven has printed Nightingale = flute Quail = oboe Cuckoo = clarinet — a mini concerto for woodwind/birds.” And of course anyone can follow the twitter account he’ll use, @NSOatWolfTrap.
I think this is a brilliant experiment. Keep reading below the cut for my thoughts.
July 30, 2009
by Alex Priest
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Found via John Lyle (@johnlyle). This presentation is just a fantastic piece of work–excellent, cited statistics, great points to be made. I really can’t rave about it enough. It’s a quick one to get through (don’t let the number of … Continue reading
July 30, 2009
by Alex Priest
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Let me begin by pointing you to this excellent article on the Huffington Post by Kari Henley, titled “Are You Obsessed With Being Busy?” For me, the answer is a loud and clear, YES.
Hi, my name is Alex and I am addicted to being busy.
My favorite line in the article puts it perfectly:
I struggle with being busy vs. being burned out on a regular basis. I like to drive fast, eat fast, read fast, type fast and can multi-task with the best of them. When I finally do stop, I often walk around in circles, trying to figure out what to ‘do’ with myself! Sound familiar?
All too much. I’m busy. And so is every single person I know. We all complain about it from time to time but deep in our hearts I’m pretty sure we all really love it. We do it to ourselves, after all–between new technologies, social media, our jobs and living our lives outside of work and the Internet, we’ve got a lot going on.
Just today I led our weekly team meeting and my presentation focused–as it often does–on Twitter. First, we discussed how to fit Twitter into your schedule, particularly from a work perspective as a busy public relations professional. It’s not easy. For some, it may not be possible. And for others, they might not even want to try. But for my generation, I see this coming very naturally to us.
We have been raised to multitask. America is still one of the hardest and longest working countries in the world and, although our economy may be changing rapidly, our work ethic seems intact. From a personal perspective, I have been trained to balance all of the traditional tasks in communication, while also balancing a valid social media and online presence AND still maintaining at least some semblance of a personal life.
July 29, 2009
by Alex Priest
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This is a new beginning. For those of you who visit my blog frequently (or even infrequently), you’ll notice a lot has changed since the last time you might have seen it. My old blog can still be found here, … Continue reading