Jared’s Vlogs From B-School - Report #2 (YEAR IN REVIEW)

by Jared on December 31st, 2007

A montage of photos and videos from 2007. It was more a creative exercise than anything else but it turned out great so I decided to share it.

Podsafe Music: City Skies - Dylan & The Movies

Technorati Tags: 2007, Marketing Diner, MBA, montage, surviving business school, Vidcast, vlog

Life, The Year 2008 and More..

by dash on December 29th, 2007

Glad to be back at 20- Something Marketing after a not so short break.What an amazing year this has been, so much has happened for me, marketers, web-strategists and the online industry at a collective level. Jared has gotten into B-School and is supposedly doing a cool job. He’s doing loads of stuff at the Owen University and the recent post he did on OwenBloggers.com has got traction in media on newsweek” Great to hear that as I have myself featured in a couple of news-items.

So yeah, the going has been good.The expectations are high from the year ahead. While experts are speculating that ‘web’ would keep making inroads into an average marketer’s life.The so called smart marketers will capitalize on the growing appeal of social networks.

Whether you call it as 3.0 or something else, one would witness rise in popularity as well as growth of new social networks.The whole philosophy of relationships via social networks would diversify into three key categories. So one would see an average users shuffling between their friendly relationships, family relationships and business relationships.While Facebook would be there for Friends, Linkedin for Business users there’s a possibilty of third alternative whether it is Ancestory or Kindo occupying a major role in 2008.Interestingly Kindo has been a bit of revelation since its emergence and is currently available in 12 regional languages including Arabic.

Whew !!With amazing features like Celebrity family trees the feature is promising for Kindo. Okay on this note, I bid you bye-bye for now. Enjoy the festive season, network with your friends, colleagues and family on networks like Kindo.

20SMF Episode #68 - MBA Spin: 1st Semester Update

by Jared on December 16th, 2007

The weekend before finals, Jared chats it up about being quoted in newsweek, surviving the first semester of business school and life in Nashville.

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Technorati Tags: MBA, Nashville, Owen Graduate School of Management, surviving business school, Vanderbilt, w00t

Be Careful What You Blog About, People May Just Take You Seriously

by Jared on December 15th, 2007

Ever wonder what it would feel like to have one of your best friends calls you up to ask, “did you know you were quoted in Newsweek?” Yeah, now I know.

My friend Steph called me this morning to alert me to the fact that a recent post I did on my business school blog at OwenBloggers.com was quoted in a recent web-article on the word “w00t;”

“But w00t has done just the opposite: it started on the keyboard, made its way into SMS texting, then into writing, until it was finally spoken out loud….”This momentous selection is just another sign that the American lexicon is increasingly defined not by scholars but by raving lunatic bloggers like us,” writes Jared, a blogger on Owenbloggers.com”

Now normally, I don’t consider a ton of what I write to appeal to mass audiences. In fact, the very nature of writing about business and marketing makes me, by default, a niche blogger. That’s exactly why when someone tells me that a popular newsmagazine thinks I am on-point enough to cite, I begin to realize that blogging is a much more powerful tool than most people think.

Think about it, where else would you be able to add “have been quoted in Newsweek” to your list of accomplishments in an interview?

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MBA Spin: Final Exam - Leadership Communications

by Jared on December 10th, 2007

Normally, I would tell you that professional comedy isn’t one of my strong suits. In this case however, peg it to the completion of my first semester in business school and see how well I slide into the roll:

So yes, if you are asking how things are here at Vanderbilt, I am doing just fine ;).

Technorati Tags: MBA, Owen Graduate School of Management, Leadership Communicatins, surviving business school

How to break the land-speed record for a powerpoint presentation

by Jared on December 4th, 2007

In case you’re wondering how grad school is going, check out this presentation I made to my Leadership Communications class:

Yeah, its a familiar subject but at least I found one way to make this show work for my career!

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