#PCPGH4 Appetizer: See How I Did That – The @CynthiaCloskey’s Birthday Edition. October 8, 2009
Posted by Anthony Closkey in Boxes.Tags: Big Big Design, Cindy, pcpgh, pcpgh4, pgh bloggers
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This is part of a short series of posts introducing Podcamp Pittsburgh 4.
Let’s explain it one last time. My sister Cindy is also Cynthia, but apparently people think you have to be one or the other. I don’t get it. I call her Cindy most of the time, but often I refer to her as Cynthia, particularly whenever I state her full name.
Today is Cindy Closkey’s birthday. This Podcamp Pittsburgh she would like to tell you about professional use of social media, and personal blogging. She’ll also be helping my out by representing Joomla and WordPress on the Content Management System panel I’ve yet to find a sucker to moderate.
Re-Discovering the Voice of Your Blog
If blogging has stopped being fun and turned into a chore;
If you haven’t posted in weeks (or months);
If again and again you start posts but never finish them;
If you want to make a fresh start on your blog, then this session is for
you.Cynthia Closkey, co-founder of Pittsburgh Bloggers, has a plan to
reinvigorate your blog. In this session, she’ll help you define your focus,
create a strategy, and streamline your posting. She’ll also discuss how to
get past writing blocks and give you tools to get the words flowing again.
Your blog and your readers are waiting for you.
When I mentioned these sessions for the first draft of the schedule, each got an “Ooh.” See, she’s totally relevant, even at this age.
Selling Social Media to Your Boss: A 7 Step Plan
You know social media is a great tool for marketing, customer feedback, and
developing valuable communities. Your boss thinks it’s a waste of resources
– or even a danger to the organization. How can you make your case?In this session, Cynthia Closkey of Big Big Design will discuss what
managers and top-level executives need to know about social media and online
networking, highlights resources for finding examples and statistics that
carry weight, and shows you a simple plan for helping your organization move
ahead.
What is he building in there? November 9, 2008
Posted by Anthony Closkey in Boxes.Tags: art, Big Big Design, blogging, Cindy, Facebook, jumping in, Plurk, Twitter
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I work for Big Big Design. We, my sister Cindy and I, are a two people firm providing web stuff. Recently I’ve made the jump to get more involved so as to be a better resource to clients.
So far this includes Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Plurk. Each has it’s use, and I’m not convinced I’ll use any applications to automatically cross-post to them. Facebook is for friends and family, and sharing things I don’t necessarily want to share professionally. LinkedIn is a more professioanal profile and network. Twitter is a conversation to keep an ear to lastest happenings and tools in both arenas. And finally Plurk is a lounge with for a very small circle of friends. (Growing that circle will be too much chatter for me to follow.) So far so good.
But I want a more public home base for “Anthony Closkey, the dude from Big Big Design.” The me you meet at happy hour where I tell you about new ways to more substantially connect with customers and peers, and about the really cool things I heard in a podcast on the walk over. Here I’m publicly branding myself as a product offered by Big Big Design.
And so here we are, a web presence complete with a blog where I’ll post some ideas born of friends and findings and some other stuff I like.
This brings us to Bricks & Boxes, the domain I bought a little while back. (I reserve the right to suddenly change to Brick Sandboxes.) At the time I was looking to build digital gizmos to post. Collage and html gadgets, all really silly and trivial but hopefully cool. Little web sketches, if you will, in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. I still hope to do these, but we won’t post them exclusively.
Soap Bubble Set - from WebMuseum
