Disqus - Latest Comments for Dawn Foster

Re: Adding a social media policy to your PR toolbox

Dawn Foster — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:17:46 -0000

You might also be interested in this list of social media / blogging policies from a few dozen companies.
http://socialcomputingjournal.com/viewcolumn.cf...

Re: The Great Portland Interview Experiment

Dawn Foster — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:17:29 -0000

Count me in. @geekygirldawn

Re: Biff! Ka-Blam! Shizzow!

Dawn Foster — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:05:39 -0000

Thanks for writing this! I gave you an extra special batch of invites this morning, but let me know if you run out. I have the power to issue more :)

Re: He asked me to go on a bike ride…

Dawn Foster — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:23:13 -0000

Congratulations! Best wishes to you both.

Re: Your Brand is Sacred, so Release Your Brand

Dawn Foster — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:23:06 -0000

I'm happy to see that you found my Corporate Blogging tips useful!

Even with fairly boring products, companies have customers who are passionate about their products. Jive has quite a few developer community members who are excited about our enterprise software, and they are great evangelists. Getting those people who are passionate about your products is some of the best marketing that a company will ever find.

Re: If You Intend To Blog Seriously

Dawn Foster — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:27:25 -0000

It's also important for people to show their personality in blog posts. We aren't mindless automatons. We're people.

Too many bloggers try to write like journalists would write for a newspaper, but blogs can be less formal, fun and interesting when the unique personality of the blogger shows through.

Re: My FriendFeed Stuff With Comments

Dawn Foster — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:49:06 -0000

Nice improvements. I love it when people take something I started and build on it to make it better :-)

Re: ThrivePDX: Meh

Dawn Foster — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:34:30 -0000

I think we should keep the remarks about forming a board with a leader for this event in perspective. It was a single suggestion from a person at the event. As an organizer, I think it is completely unnecessary and not something I think we want to do. We already have groups in place to handle this type of thing - we don't need another one.

What we are trying to accomplish with Thrive is to further unify the Portland tech community. We want to get people who don't usually come together at events to come to ThrivePDX. Ultimately, we want companies in Portland working together, hiring each other, and making the Portland economy stronger. I'd like to see Portland companies working together with local independents and freelancers.

Too many people are facing tough times, the economy sucks, and some cool local companies have cut jobs. We're trying to make the community stronger in any way we can. Please try to keep this in mind when considering future ThrivePDX events.