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Re: Creative Conversations - Kate Brodock and Danah Boyd

Kate Brodock — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:29:03 -0000

Hi Shalini! Thanks for this write up, this was fun to do with danah! One thing, any chance you could change "founder" to "President"? I'm not the founder of the organization, that would be Adriana Gascoigne.

Re: Open-office layouts are disrespectful to employees, and lower their quality of work.

Kate Brodock — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:54:09 -0000

Completely love this and entirely agree.

Re: 10 of the Most Counterintuitive Pieces of Advice From Famous Entrepreneurs

Kate Brodock — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:54:25 -0000

Love these, thanks Belle! Definitely passing this along. (Though next time, include some women in here).

Re: My Crazy Productivity Secrets

Kate Brodock — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:54:13 -0000

Great thoughts Amber, thanks. I especially love your honesty about the crazy (and unproductive....and unhealthy) hours that some people at least claim to do while running a business. I spoke at SXSW last year on that topic, its something I feel strongly about.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:38:16 -0000

The formatting cut off institutions for Tim and Sean. Sean is at Syracuse University and Tim is at St Louis University, both in their respective Centers.

Re: Get Connected: Six Professional Organizations for Women in Tech

Kate Brodock — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:22:18 -0000

Hi, my name is Kate Brodock, President of Girls in Tech. I just wanted to thank you for the mention!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:56:13 -0000

Hi Alicia, thanks for your feedback. We plan on having discussion from men too and covering a broad range of topics (in fact, both Nicole and Jesse will be speaking to their experiences covering TechStars and Valley Girl Show, and we've all been exposed to the "start up" scene...). The reason it's all female right now is two-fold... I had actually reached out to a few male Founders, but didn't hear back from them in time, and we also don't mind having a panel of all females because our entire point is NOT to focus on the typically female ways in which this topic is generally put upon us. In most of the panels I try to put together, having an all female one where this is the explicit goal frankly accomplishes positioning females as having several of the same issues as males do in these areas.

I hope you'll still support us, as I think you'll be mildly surprised at what we're trying to achieve with our panel.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:01:41 -0000

I will certainly put my vote in for this :-) Bob was fantastic leading our panel of Generation Fluxers at Innovation Uncensored, and I'm so pleased that he's developed this idea further!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:48:36 -0000

Thumbs up on this one!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:17:19 -0000

Hi all, make sure to check out this article (http://onforb.es/MsGdnk) as it was the main inspiration for the panel. We think it's a very important topic!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:15:23 -0000

Super panel all!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:09:51 -0000

Thank you both for your vote!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Kate Brodock — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:09:18 -0000

Well, if Rachel DeAlto is on this panel, it's gotta be good. She's fantastic!

Re: The Well-Appointed Catwalk: Giveaway: Fred Perry's British Invasion

Kate Brodock — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:38:25 -0000

Just liked you on FB! Psyched you're in Boston....!

Re: Fast Company presents Innovation Uncensored 2012 #IU12

Kate Brodock — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:02:09 -0000

I'm sorry, I don't think I can help you with tickets, as that lies in the hands of Fast Company! Good luck though and hope to see you there.

Re: Do we fight technology or work with it as it changes our behavior (or is it changing our behavior at all?)

Kate Brodock — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:58:31 -0000

Brandon,

Firstly, apologies for the delayed response. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

I agree, this is an important question! I'm going to check out these books, they sound great.

I also think it's good to be asking these questions of the generations that may be more deeply entrenched than even you or I. They may not even *know* to ask....

Re: The Role of a Social Media Communicator During a Crisis: A conversation with @Chrisbrogan

Kate Brodock — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:53:31 -0000

Toby -

Thanks for your insight. I'd love to hear more and I'm happy to chat with you about this. You can email me at justkate @ syr.edu!

Kate

Re: Bernie Fine, Communications, and PR Crisis Management

Kate Brodock — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:04:25 -0000

Chase, you're very welcome!

Re: Bernie Fine, Communications, and PR Crisis Management

Kate Brodock — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:20:43 -0000

Adam, thank you very much for your words. I'm glad you found the "behind the scenes" information helpful. I always appreciate when others share their experiences, as we can all learn from each other.

Thank you also for continuing to be a supporter :-) And a very good luck with your Community Manager experiences!

Kate

Re: Hey Arrington, cool it. @PerkettPR and @missusp are the last ones you should decry.

Kate Brodock — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:56:26 -0000

http://scharp.nl/res/news.h...

Re: What Is a Social Media Communicator’s Duty in a Crisis?

Kate Brodock — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:17:51 -0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for bringing up this issue, as it's a good one. I'd like to take a few sentences (ok... more than that) to let you know how we and the rest of the social media team thought through this situation.

One role I played was to make sure my team had direction in terms of how we should be moving forward as the day progressed. I highlighted several things to the team at the beginning of the day, some of them specific to this issue: This will be at the forefront of the SU community's mind today and we shouldn't try to gloss over it, or pretend that it's business as usual, and; we need to be very careful with what content we put forward, as there is still a lot of unsettled information flying around out there.

In other words: Let's try to use internal communications that have been vetted by the people closest to the situation and remember that this is by far the issue of the day.

After a discussion around noon today (several hours into monitoring and gauging sentiment) we choose two specific "other" pieces of content to put out: The results of our Class Presidential race (something the specific candidates have put a lot of work into and ARE focused on today) and welcoming a large group (500+) of prospective students to our campus who are here on a weekend visit. I'll also note the tone of each of those responses as they were carefully chosen (and well so I might add, but I'm biased and think I have a rocking team underneath me). Everything else we've placed on the back burner.

As for my own account, my role depends on a lot, and I think it should be looked at carefully.

I'll say - and this isn't an excuse - few people in my circle on twitter know of my current position, and the general SU community is only slowly learning of my position. Therefore, I know the eyes are all at @syracuseu for this information, and very few will be turning to me (and this is something I hope will shift over time, but it's the fact right now).

Even with that in mind, I was very mindful of my tweets today. Obviously I wanted (and needed) to post the Chancellors comments, especially since I was the one up and available at the time, and I also RTed one of our student team member's posts concerning Boeheim's reaction to the situation. I answered you in between a flurry of phone calls, and I chose to respond to one particular off-subject tweet, but, because it's not obvious, I'll highlight that those two people are both Syracuse employees and currently living through the same thing the rest of the SU community is.... I felt it was actually quote fitting to connect with them on that level during this and I'm glad I did (many people on my feed may not have recognized that, but my goal was to connect with them directly). And as for foursquare... well, let's be honest, you just don't like people linking foursquare to Twitter :-) So that one doesn't count!

Other than that, I WILL tell you one big role that a social media manager has, and that's to make sure their team, the ones who are actually the voice of the organization, has the tools they need, and my time today was much more valuable working internally, and continuing in my overall role (scheduled meetings, future goals etc)....I simply didn't have a whole lot of Twitter face-time today.....and I'm not sure that if I had had more time I would have necessarily flocked to Twitter.... however, this is a very interesting issue.... should that channel now or in the future be part of the higher strategy of communication and how do you prioritize that? As I mentioned, if I begin to be seen as more or a voice for SU communications in general, this will and should shift, but right now, the already well-established channels held my focus for the day....

Again, great conversation, I'm happy to chat more with you about the process, and would love to hear what others think. Sorry if this was a little....wordy :-)

Cheers,
Kate

Re: Getting Your Content Published: Thoughts from BlogWorld LA

Kate Brodock — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:17:28 -0000

I did, and very glad you liked it! Yes, we're moving things forward here, and it's great to see the energy and enthusiasm in the higher ed space :-)

Re: 10 Key Digital Media Happenings to Get You to the End of the Week

Kate Brodock — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:14:55 -0000

Woah this video is awesome!

Re: [New Position] Executive Director of Digital and Social Media for Syracuse University

Kate Brodock — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:13:32 -0000

Hi Barbara! Thank you very much, I'm going to write you an email concerning the rest :-)

Re: [New Position] Executive Director of Digital and Social Media for Syracuse University

Kate Brodock — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:08:11 -0000

Thank you Damon!