May 2009 Blog Posts (7)

Social Media Club Louisville Event

The Social Media Club Louisville is bringing in Lewis Howes, author of LinkedWorking, to discuss the virtues of LinkedIn as a professional networking site.

I can't state enough how tools like LinkedIn can help you with your professional goals. Meeting new people and establishing weak… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 25, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Seven Great Tips for LinkedIn

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I want to start focusing my LouisvillePM blog posts on the use of social tools to help LouisvillePMers network easier, faster, better and find jobs that allow you to take your career to the next… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 19, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Chris Brogan @ SMC Louisville Tuesday May 19th

It just dawned on me to pass this along but Chris Brogan - President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, as well as the home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events - will be here in Louisville on Tuesday at the Humana HQ Building.

He will be providing an all day bootcamp and speaking in conjunction with the… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 17, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

SPAM

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For those who may have noticed, I recently deleted a blog post related to traveling to India. I also banned the individual new member, mahi, who submitted the post… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 15, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Managing Up

I wanted to jot some notes down about working with superiors to achieve business results and get your take... I ran across this great .pdf today entitled: The Art of Managing Up, by Wayne Turk and think its a solid resource for project managers so I wanted to share it.

The part of the .pdf that really resonated with me is about understanding the boss' preferences and learning to conform to them. What I would… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 5, 2009 at 11:06pm — 2 Comments

Have you heard of Prezi?

I've been working with a cool free new tool that I wanted to share with everyone here, and its called Prezi. If you've heard of it, you know how awesome it is... If you haven't heard of it, think of PowerPoint on steroids and angel dust because this presentation tool can not be stopped. :)

Seriously though, the people at zuilabs have created what they call, ZUI, or Zooming User Interface. The best way to describe it is to think of a… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 4, 2009 at 11:39pm — 2 Comments

April

The beginning of April was good times with our Networking and Free PDU Event, but I had quite a time throughout the rest of the month with computer problems slowing me down. I'm looking forward to my increased participation on the site this next month as I seem to be back up to speed... For now, here is how things went down April:

MEMBERSHIP

Membership increased incrementally by 4.4% to 274 members. I think that slow and steady growth is better than no growth,… Continue

Added by Chris Hall on May 3, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments