To be blunt, I am a straight up coward in big rooms with many people. After I got the confidence burnt out of me in college, I would walk into networking events in my chosen career path of higher education and be at a complete loss for words and a complete loss of desire to try. Everyone knew everyone else, and since I didn’t go to the “right” grad program or wasn’t in a hiring capacity, no one wanted to talk to me. Accordingly, I started avoiding networking events and conferences in my field, and labeled myself an introvert. Continue reading
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Updated 6/15/2011 morning
Wednesday night will be only the second time that a Boston pro sports team could win a championship and I won’t be responsible for putting on a viewing party involving it. And even though I haven’t been in the viewing party business since 2008, it is still odd not to be at this point in a championship series and not be all consumed with putting on an event that would do justice to the championship possibility and keep students from gathering in Kenmore Square. Continue reading
The TD Garden lit up with Bruins spirit. (Photo by me and my iPhone.)
The Boston Bruins are going to lose tonight because I am wearing pants.
Preposterous, you say. What does making a choice between a black skirt and black pants have to do with if the Bruins will tie up their Stanley Cup Finals series against the Vancouver Canucks this evening? Continue reading
I attended Monday’s Realtime conference in New York City, at which the NHL’s Director of Social Media Marketing and Strategy Michael DiLorenzo gave a case study on how the NHL approaches social media. Of course, it was easily the most entertaining moment of the day for mega sports fan me, but that aside, it was also an amazing presentation with a ton of information.
I’ll write up more about the NHL’s presentation and overall conference later (I am in charge of technical support for a new student orientation this week, so time is tight), but there was one ironic and timely point in it that I must share. DiLorenzo mentioned that one of the things they have struggled with is responding via their NHL Twitter account in the wake of disciplinary news: “No matter what the discipline department decides, we’re going to get tons of tweets that say ‘You’re wrong.”
I have decided to try out this whole “video blog” genre, even though I have a face meant for radio. So here’s my first SportsGirlKat video blog, in which I give you some quick facts (in ticket sales) about the growth of the Bruins’ popularity and a quick “independent sports writing” (my term for sports blogging) tip about writing about the Stanley Cup.