December 2009
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What does it take to be a good transportation...
Love.
You have to love transportation. Care for it, be dedicated, loyal, and spend lots of time with transportation.
What I mean is that I’ve come to realize that, to be an excellent transportation writer, its really important to be passionate about transportation and have a good knowledge-base about the discussions going on out there in the industry.
I’ve had to develop an interest...
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Should we team up to spread the engineering...
The folks at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) started eGFI (Engineering, Go For It!), an engineering magazine for teens. ASEE has this to say of the 2008 launch of eGFI:
“ASEE announces new eGFI brand platform - Creative Education Publication, Web Site and E-newsletter to Inspire America’s Engineers of Tomorrow. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)...
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Social media marketing efforts
The best advice I’ve read about social media is that you don’t have to be using the current “Web 2.0” social media service to do social media marketing. The important thing is having content to share and finding a place to start a dialogue related to that content. Dialogue is key though. Social media is about developing a community through active discussion. So how is Go!...
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Career fairs at Perry and Iowa Youth Congress
Katie and I went to Perry High School on Wednesday, November 4 to participate in their annual career fair. We setup at a booth in the gymnasium and spent most of the morning and afternoon speaking with students and discussing the magazine and their career interests. We took our computers so they could look at the magazine. We also encouraged them to guess the Mystery photo for a chance to win a...