Thanks, Hamilton College, for Fun Media Workshop!

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Thanks, Hamilton College, for Fun Media Workshop!

I spent a fun weekend in Clinton, NY, with the student journalists at Hamilton College (named after my favorite founding father, the great Alexander. Or as the kiddos apparently call him: Al Ham.)

My lovely and dynamic friend Eric Kuhn, a social media strategist and senior at Hamilton, asked me a couple weeks ago to trek up from Manhattan and run a workshop for the school’s various student media publications. We talked about the changing media landscape and what that means for their career paths, we cracked out on Twitter and Blog Talk Radio, we looked at the free community tools on Ning, discussed how to engage would-be writers, my 6 - 10 Theory of being compelling beyond the obvious as a storyteller, the role of independent media in the new “transparent” Obama administration, my fondness for the anthropomorphic qualities of Colonel Tribune on Facebook, time management skills and my devotion to David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” philosophy of “mind like water,” the need to preserve the integrity of investigative journalism, and how to avoid a quarterlife crisis (*not that I did). I also got a re-education in the permanent smell of beer and delicious dining hall eggs on Saturday morning, of which I thoroughly enjoyed the latter.

Photos from the day in the Flickr gallery >>.

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One comment for “Thanks, Hamilton College, for Fun Media Workshop!”

Thanks for the mention, Maegan. I haven’t had the pleasure of making it up to Hamilton College yet, but perhaps I will at some point.

Cheers!

Posted by Colonel Tribune | February 8, 2009, 9:17 am

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