AWC Des Moines

Careless Posts Can Haunt You

Kathy Towner and Cecelia Munzenmaier presented tips on using social media to build a professional identity to members of Beta Sigma Psi and Pi Beta Phi at ISU October 30.
    In keeping with the season, they stressed that the distinction between personal and online identities are becoming blurred. What's posted in fun may come back to haunt you later.
   More and more employers are checking Facebook and blogs. Pictures that suggest you'd rather party than work may mean no job offer is forthcoming. A post about plans to stay less than a year at the nonprofit that just offered you a job  can lead to a job offer being withdrawn.

A Career Builder survey identified employers' top concerns about candidates' social media content:

    For more information from the presentation, see Kayla  Schantz' article in the Iowa State Daily, "Tweet the Way You Want to Be Tweeted": http://tinyurl.com/create.php
   

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Email Errors

Is your email communication in trouble? Des Moines Alliance member Kathy Towner says there are “ten dead giveaways that tell me a company needs help with their email campaign.” In a recent blog posting she outlines each and gives readers the chance to add their own email peeves. See if your organization falls into any of these email traps at http://winblogger.typepad.com/winblogger/2007/09/best-practices-.html.

For more great email advice, you'll also want to check out member Cecelia Munzenmaier's presentation on email etiquette, “Keeping Your Foot Out of Your Virtual Mouth” at http://word-crafter.net/EmailEtiquette.ppt

-- Brenda Friedrich, Independent Communications Consultant and Des Moines Alliance Co-Webmaster

 

Announcing the Des Moines Alliance Blog

Web co-chairs Brenda Friedrich and Sandy Renshaw are in the final stages of rolling out The Association for Women in Communications (AWC) Des Moines Alliance blog.

This is your site, a place where members/communicators can share news and information.

We are currently soliciting you to contribute content for the site. This is a chance to share your areas of expertise and your thoughts with your fellow communicators.

If you are interested in contributing on an ongoing basis, contact us at awcweb@mchsi.com.

We encourage everyone's feedback in establishing topic categories.