Here’s the next in our regular assignment listing on jeffcutler.com.
This is assignment 11 and it’s another fun one. This week, please choose a proverb or quote (and tell us where it comes from) and then use this quote or proverb as the first line in a conversation or expository paragraph.
You’re limited to a couple paragraphs. Please put the assignment in the comments section below. Mine will appear there shortly.
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Speaker, Session Presenter • Journalism Interactive Conference • College Park, MD • October 28-29, 2011
Session Leader, Guest Speaker • Tech Day Camp • Quincy, MA • October 22, 2011
New Media Trainer, Social Media Tools and Techniques • Boston Globe Training Session with Kara Sassone • Boston, MA • October 20, 2011
Keynoter, Moderator, Panelist • Association of Cable Communicators Forum 2011 • New York, NY • October 5-6, 2011
Session Presenter • Excellence in Journalism Conference 2011 • New Orleans, LA • September 24-28, 2011
Guest • Tonya Hall Radio • September 2011
Guest Speaker • Social Media Integration Conference 2011 • Atlanta, GA • September 16-17, 2011
Moderator • The Business of Social Media Online Chat • September 13, 2011
Social Media Trainer • The Tools Journalists Use • NLGJA National Meeting • Philadelphia, PA • August 27, 2011
Guest Speaker • South Shore CPA Group • Where to Go, What to Know on the Web • Braintree, MA • July 28, 2011
Social Media Trainer • Summer Session at SPJ HQ • Indianapolis, IN • July 12, 2011
Guest Speaker • Alliance of Area Business Publications Summer Conference • Providence, RI • June 23, 2011
Panelist • New England XPO for Business • Social Media 101 - Get Your Business Noticed • May 25, 2011
On-Air Guest • Follow Friday with Maggie Rulli on The Pulse Network • Friday, May 6, 2011
Panelist • American Bar Association • Fad or Future? Social Media's Place in Today's Legal Profession • April 16, 2011
BeanCast Guest • MARCH MADNESS • March 20, 2011
Guest Host • HubSpot TV • Social Media Techniques and Missteps • March 11, 2011
Guest Speaker • Parenting Publications of America Annual Conference • Arlington, VA • March 4-5, 2011
BeanCast Guest • SUPER BOWL SATURDAY • February 5, 2011
Consumer Electronics Show • CES 2011 • Las Vegas • January 6-9, 2011
NomX3 Taping • Kel & Partners • South Boston, MA
BeanCast Guest • Sunday, December 5
Speaker/Trainer North Shore Technology Council at the Peabody Marriott • December 1
SEMA Show • Las Vegas • November 1-4
Social Media Training • Multiple Sessions - SPJ Annual Conference in Las Vegas • October 3-5
BeanCast Guest • Sunday, September 26
Speaker at the 140Conf Boston • September 14
Speaker, Downtown Boston Rotary Club • September 7 • Cohosts David Cutler and Mike Langford
Social Media Club Oil Spill Event Speaker • August 25 • see the videos of the event at YouTube
Digital Dads Guest with CC Chapman • Monday, August 9
Spent two weeks in New Orleans reporting on the BP Oil Spill
BeanCast Guest • Sunday, May 16
Edit.me Webinar Guest • Monday, May 17
Eat, Drink and Be Social pre-party • Sunday, May 23
Eat, Drink and Be Social event • Monday, May 24
Swiss Consulate, Boston, Panel Moderator • Tuesday, May 25
Social Media Training • Columbus Dispatch - May 1
TBD Session(s) • SPJ Region 1 Conference, NY, NY - April 9-10
Social Media Training • RTDNA in Las Vegas - April 12-13
Social Media Training • Bloomington Herald - February 25
Social Media Training • Wichita Eagle/Others - March 4
Social Media Training • Chicago Community Media Workshop - March 9
NomX3.com Tapings • South by Southwest - Various locations - March 13-16
Social Media Training • Community Newspapers, Saratoga - March 24-25
Guest Speaker at LaunchCamp Boston and Social Media Breakfast 16 in Boston. Event was held at NERD and topic was Content Creation.
Podcamp Western Massachusetts presenter - two sessions. Time management using social media tools; and How to create online video.
Also filmed an episode of NomX3 at Podcamp Western Massachusetts. This was #PCWM2.
Consumer Electronics Show - Las Vegas. Covering the event for MobileMag.com among other outlets.
NomX3 filming at Boloco, Fajitas and Ritas, Tastings Wine Bar and Bistro, and other venues.
Training sessions at NERD and also for the Society of Professional Journalists at newsrooms across the country.
Podcamp New Hampshire presenter. Also filmed an episode of NomX3 at the first NH Podcamp.
Arlington, MA Chamber of Commerce
Social Media Panel
University of Massachusetts - "How to Communicate with the Media -- Using Social Media"
"60 Sites in 60 Minutes: Site Stampede, a Journalist's Guide to New Media" at the SPJ Annual Conference, Sat. Aug. 29
AIM Mutual
Where to Go and What to Know: The Web
HRM DIet, Boston
Twitter for Business private session
MetroWest Chamber of Commerce
LinkedIn for Business
Nat'l Assoc. of Women Bus. Owners
Social Media for Business
Podcamp Boston '09 presenter
The Future of Work
Podcamp Boston '07 presenter
Freelancing
Salty Legs Career Club
Social Media for Job Hunters
Word on the Tweet radio show guest
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new,” said Albert.
“That’s no reason to jump off this building,” I countered. “You’re not Newton or superman and I’ve a feeling that something you discover later in life could prove very timely.”
“Very well,” he said. “One theory I could never understand is how a nephew might actually be able to talk me out of a scientific endeavor.”
“I guess that’s some sort of theory of relativity, Uncle Albert.”
It was a silent 4:00PM in Mountianview, the artificial city of the Silicon Peninsula/
“When a true genius enters the world, you may know him by this sign: the Dunces are all aligned in confederacy against him.”
So I quoted with a smile at the VC meeting where my baby, ThruDispatch, was pitched.
One of the Senior Partners hurled a stentorian barb in my direction.”You are calling yourself a genius and we are the Dunces? ”
“All I am saying is that the valley equity investors seem to be throwing capital at so many duplicate social media and video sharing plans”, I said, ready to kill all there suits if it wasn’t for the consequences.
One of the Juniors looked at me with withering scorn and vomited his invective in my general direction, “Everyone in this room makes seven figures, we are placing the next sub-round in Facebook Apps…good day Mr. Wilensky and, good luck with your….plan”.
As I left, I passed one of the ‘famous’ Silicon Valley’ undertakers of capital walking confidently into the conference room. He had a track record of raising capital and burning down (so to speak) a number of here and gone startups, few of which ever became profitable. Indeed, he seemed more notorious for NOT making equity pay. What was his secret?
“How do you so it?”. I hissed, “how, how?” He barely glanced backwards at me as his Patek Minute Repeating watch chimed the quarter hour.
“I hire friends, I am hired by friends, I make sure that the first order of business when receiving a placement of equity is to find a way to compensate the VC partners.
Clammy and faint, I staggered towards the elevator – Ping….Bing…bong..softer as the conference room door clicked closed….fainter voices from behind…”hey guys…good to see you again….(Ping!)
It was 4:30PM in Mountainview.
THat quote should be attributed to Jonathan swift, sorry Jeff.
No problem. My only gripe is that I have yet to post anything as eloquent or moving as the stuff you guys are coming up with. Alas, the students have so quickly become the teachers.
Jeff
“You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. I heard momma say that one time on the phone. I think she was talking to Aunt Verniece.” Etta cocked her head to one side. “But it’s not working.” She looked plaintively at her brother. Squinting his eyes skeptically, James surveyed the thick pools of honey slowly seeping into the hard earth. The kids were behind the barn where Etta had found her beloved cat, Whitey. He was swarming with what looked like a million flies, obviously dead a while. His younger sister was trying to lure the flies away from the cat, so she could give it a proper burial. “Maybe if I mixed the honey with the vinegar? Do you think that would work?”