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Standing Partnership in Charlottesville
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/16/2008 - While the majority of the Standing Partnership team lives and works in St. Louis, Mo., I make my home and office in Charlottesville, Va. I moved to Charlottesville two years ago and have been busy establishing the east coast satellite office of the firm ever…
PR Firms that Blog
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/15/2008 - The Bivings Group has a cool wiki to collect and update the list of PR firms that blog.
College Admissions Blogs: Universities Embrace Social Media
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/15/2008 - Here at Chez Jaggers, we watch the mailbox like hawks these days. The first of what we hope will be several college acceptance letters has crossed our doorstep and we (well, mostly the 17-year-old) are eagerly awaiting the envelope that will share our collective fate…
Facebook Assignments
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/09/2008 - Lee Aase has a great list of assignments for association executives to complete in Facebook. I've had several recent conversations with clients wishing to build their businesses and/or networks, encouraging them to sign up for and engage in social networking tools such as LinkedIn and…
Highway 40 the New "Al Capone's Vault"
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/08/2008 - I have a unique perspective on the highway 40 closure in St. Louis. All of my coworkers live and work in St. Louis and many of my clients do as well. I've been able to sit back and watch the non-news unfold from the comfort…
Getting Over the E-newsletter: Make the Switch to RSS
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/07/2008 - Before Thanksgiving last year, I took a stand for RSS and unsubscribed from nearly every e-mail list I was on. It's helped clean up my inbox significantly and I'm thrilled at the new RSS feeds I've found to which to subscribe instead. Even my church's…
Exploring Social Media in Schools
By: Marijean Jaggers
12/12/2007 - I participated in a panel discussion today at CATEC, the technical education center for the Charlottesville/Albemarle region in Virginia. CATEC Director Darah Bonham gathered to the table local bloggers, social networkers, podcasters and education administrators to open the discussion of how we integrate social media…
The Smallest Actions Can Transform Your Business
By: Marijean Jaggers
12/12/2007 - I'm reading a book called Selling the Invisible, recommended to me by a client. In it, the author writes about the Butterfly Effect, as a method of illustrating how even the smallest action, like the flutter of a butterfly's wings, can make a difference. Today,…
Every Time a Phone Rings, An Angel Gets His Wings
By: Marijean Jaggers
12/11/2007 - On Thursday, I moderated a workshop on social networking at CBIC's Annual Business Forum. The whole day was great -- lots of interest in using social networking tools like Facebook and LinkedIn for business -- and interesting conversations with fellow attendees and participants. I even…
Liveblogging CBIC Annual Business Forum
By: Marijean Jaggers
12/06/2007 - I'm liveblogging the second workshop at the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council's Annual Business Forum -- the Information Tsunami -- using e-tools for business, with David Chen moderating. Panelists include Kamin Whitehouse, Uday Gupta and Jim Bain. Panelists share tools they use daily: Microsoft Office Unix…
