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Just Started a Second Blog: Seattle Guanxi
Oct 22nd
I’d like to let everyone know that I’ve just started my first group blog, Seattle Guanxi, on public relations, social media and China as they relate to Seattle. I will still maintain this blog, Beijing Duck.
Three factors motivated me to ask Veronica Truong to start a group blog with me:
- I realized I knew some cool people in Seattle who, like me, were into both public relations and China.
- I noticed a lot of China-related stories in Seattle media that were obviously driven by public relations practitioners, such as the Bing/Baidu partnership and the opening of the Seattle Chinese Garden, which I could blog about.
- I remembered that during his presentation at Puget Sound PRSA’s 2011 Jumpstart event, Scott Meis recommended group blogging as a way to excel in online personal branding for a relatively low time commitment.
We’re hoping that Seattle Guanxi will be not only a blog but a resource, which is why we include suggested events and groups on our site. We are also considering including Seattle area job and volunteer postings related to the blog’s topics.
In my opinion, successful new blogs today rely heavily on community, include video and treat the blog’s site as part of a content ecosystem that also includes Twitter and Facebook. We plan on incorporating all of these into Seattle Guanxi, accomplishing the community part by interviewing and including contributed posts from people who are more influential and popular than us. You will see video through our own vlogging and hopefully video interviews, as well. We also have a @seattleguanxi Twitter handle and Seattle Guanxi Facebook page that we will use within the contexts of those two sites’ own communities.
How is Seattle Guanxi going to be different than this blog, Beijing Duck? Well, in addition to the community features listed above, the content focus is different. Beijing Duck’s content sometimes relates to Seattle because I live here, but that’s really not the point of this blog. I try to write about China, public relations and art regardless of geographic location.
Feel free to comment at http://seattleguanxi.wordpress.com/ or communicate with us on Twitter or Facebook on what you would most like to see out of Seattle Guanxi.
What Site am I on More Than Facebook?
Jan 1st
Twitter might just be the most friendly social networking site for expatriates, especially working American expatriates, as it’s most popular in the Why have I grown so attached to Twitter while working abroad? I like reading 140 characters at a time about my friends and professional contacts back home. I get a more personalized version of news (for the most part, on the U.S.’s West Coast, where I’m from and most of my Twitter friends live). For example, I read about terrible winter weather in the When I was a public relations student a little over six months ago, several forces drilled into me a rigid, “right” way to use Twitter. I learned that my tweets (Twitter posts) should always be positive, and I should make sure to frequently share links that show I read industry news online and know what I’m talking about. Therefore, it was refreshing to see Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu‘s recent blog post titled “My Twitter is Not Your Twitter.” In this post, she basically argues that Twitter is developing different subcultures, so there’s no “right” way to use it. Thanks to Kelli Matthews, who shared this post via Twitter. On occasion, I still share useful links on Twitter. However, I spend most of my time on there replying to friends’ tweets and posting tidbits about living in Apparently Chinese people think that oranges are terrible to eat when you’re sick with a cold. Quite the opposite from the “Hi Beth, Your debit card has returned to me in Conducted a 1.5-hour meeting with an artist yesterday in CHINESE! I was less than perfect, but still. 7:45 PM Nov 25th, 2008 from web I’m not losing sleep for the election! It’s 11 a.m. my time :) 7:10 PM Nov 4th, 2008 from web Saw this and thought of @kmatthews ’s class’ Chinese crisis case study:http://tinyurl.com/6jzdod 2:13 AM Oct 29th, 2008 from web New cell phone number has no 4s (unlucky number in Had my first conversation about homosexuality in @annaosgoodby You have no idea how good the food is here. Slowly learning to cook it for my eventual return to the going to the Olympics tomorrow! Booya! learned the hard way that electricity in We’re burning our exhibit today. Not typical, but this one is based on a Chinese mourning ritual. 7:40 PM Jun 28th, 2008 from web I’m unsure why I prefer Twitter over FriendFeed, which aggregates from more sources. It could be because I don’t have a desktop application like TweetDeck for FriendFeed, or that almost none of my friends are on FriendFeed. There’s no mobile Twitter in I love the people whose sole job is to make sure that people stand in line at the bus stop during rush hour. Jianwai Can’t get enough of these tweets? Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bethevans.
More Native Mandarin Speakers Than English, Spanish and Japanese Combined
Nov 8th
I’ve heard repeatedly from business gods that Mandarin Chinese is the language to know. Moving to Beijing immediately after graduation and witnessing the tremendous economic growth around me has driven the point home. For those of you who aren’t convinced, check this out: Mandarin has more native speakers in the world than English, Spanish, and Japanese combined.
By the way, Japanese and Spanish were the two other languages, along with Mandarin, that Richard Edelman recommended in the PRSSA National Conference 2006 keynote that audience members become proficient in. There’s also about 20 times as many students studying them than Mandarin at the University of Oregon. I know this because one of the biggest marketing mistakes of my life, which I made while I was U of O’s International Week and Night’s Publicity Committee Head, was to e-mail every language professor at the university targeted messages. U of O is a microcosmic example for the rest of the universities in the United States.
In addition to the sheer population numbers, native Mandarin speakers are part of the BRIC acronym that represents the world’s fastest developing economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
Long story short:
Already huge and exponentially growing demand for Mandarin-speaking workers
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Nobody studying it
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Why I’m staying here until I’m fluent enough to run a business meeting
Thanks to Jaculynn Peterson for informing me via Twitter of the stats that inspired this post.
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