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Minnesota high school student college prep activities and college-going rates
College Preparation: PSEO, AP and IB
Minnesota high school students have opportunities to prepare for college by challenging themselves with college-level courses in high school. Students may:
- Enroll in the College Board's Advanced Placement courses either at their local high school or online.
- Enroll in classes at local colleges through the Minnesota Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program.
- Enroll in "college in the schools" or other concurrent enrollment classes at their high school. These classes are part of the PSEO alternative to attending a college.
- Enroll in the International Baccalaureate curriculum at participating high schools.
During the 2010-11 school year, 63,420 high school juniors and seniors participated in the following activities:
Program | Number of juniors and seniors participating |
Postsecondary Enrollment Options* | 28,551 |
Advanced Placement** | 32,541 |
International Baccalaureate | 2,328 |
Total*** | 63,420 |
* Includes 7,281 students who enrolled on college campuses, plus 20,290 who took college-level courses in their high schools.
**Students who took Advanced Placement exams. Students may take AP courses but are not required to take the AP exam.
*** Total is not unduplicated. Some students may be participating in more than one option.
Approximately 20 percent of Minnesota high school seniors earn college credits by the time they graduate from high school, according to a report on the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program prepared by the Office of Internal Auditing at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.
Nine percent, or 3,080 students who graduated from a Minnesota high school during 2009-10 and enrolled in a Minnesota postsecondary institution in fall 2010, had earned enough college credits through one or more of the above activities to have a college class standing of sophomore or higher upon admission.
For more information on high school student participation in college prep activities, see the following:
College Entrance Exams: ACT and SAT
Most high school students who intend to enroll in a four-year college need to take a college entrance exam. About 70 percent of Minnesota high school seniors take the ACT or SAT college entrance test. Scores on these tests are an indicator of the college readiness of Minnesota's college-bound high school graduates.
More information on high school student college entrance exam scores:
College Participation Rates of Minnesota High School Graduates
College participation rates are defined as the number of high school graduates who enroll in a post-secondary education institution the fall after high school graduation. Minnesota's participation rate provides a glimpse of student behavior in the months following high school graduation.
More information on college-going rates of high school graduates:
College Remediation
The report, Getting Prepared: A 2010 Report on Recent High School Graduates Who Took Developmental/Remedial Courses is prepared by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota. Highlights of the report include:
- 40 percent of Minnesota's recent public high school graduates who enrolled in public higher education in the state have taken at least one developmental or remedial course within two years after graduation. That is up slightly from a report three years ago, when 38 percent of recent high school graduates took at least one developmental course.
- Most students take only one remedial course. Forty-five percent of the nearly 13,000 recent high school graduates taking developmental courses needed only one course. Thirty-nine percent took two or three courses, and 16 percent of the students took four or more such courses.
- Math is the weakest area. Of all the development credits taken by the class of 2008, 50 percent were in mathematics, 23 percent were in writing courses and the rest were in other subjects, such as reading or study skills. Developmental mathematics ranges from basic arithmetic to the equivalent of high school intermediate algebra.
- Students who take developmental courses are increasingly concentrated in the two-year colleges. Of the 2008 graduates who took developmental courses, 87 percent attended a two-year college, 12 percent went to a state university, and 1 percent attended the University of Minnesota.
About the High School Class of 2010
College readiness and participation data on the high school graduating class of 2010
High School Graduates | Minnesota | Nation |
Number of graduates | 63,781 | 3,321,380 |
ACT Tests | Minnesota | Nation |
Number and percent of ACT test-takers for this class | 44,323 70% | 1,568,835 42% |
Mean ACT scores for this class: | ||
English | 22.3 | 20.2 |
Reading | 23.2 | 21.3 |
Mathematics | 22.9 | 21.0 |
Science | 22.8 | 20.9 |
Composite | 22.9 | 21.0 |
Advanced Placement Exams* | Minnesota | Nation |
Number and percent of exam-takers for this class | 32,541 50% | 1,845,006 55% |
Number of exams taken (students can take more than one exam) | 53,239 | 3,213,225 |
Number and percent of AP exams with scores of 3 or higher (the minimum necessary to receive college credit) | 34,145 64% | 1,861,669 58% |
College Participation Percent of 2010 high school graduates enrolled in a college in fall 2010 | Minnesota | Nation |
Number and percent enrolled in Minnesota** | 32,454 51% | |
Number and percent enrolled out of state | 12,756 20% | |
Number and percent enrolled anywhere | 45,210 71% | 70% |
Within Minnesota Only: | ||
University of Minnesota | 6,067 19% | |
State University | 6,553 20% | |
Community or Technical College | 12,316 38% | |
Private College | 6,240 19% | |
Private Career School | 1,278 4% | |
Total enrolled in Minnesota** | 32,454 100% |
*While AP tests may be taken by high school students who are other than seniors; test-takers percentages will be benchmarked against the graduating class.
**This percentage is adjusted for missing data. The total percentages at the various types of postsecondary institutions will not add up to the state total due to missing data.
Data are displayed for the class of 2010 since this is the most complete data available from all the various data sources. More recent data on ACT and Advanced Placement test-takers may be found in their topic specific sections.
Source: ACT, College Board, Minnesota Department of Education, Minnesota Office of Higher Education
More Information:
Related Pages
Related Links
- College Board
- International Baccalaureate Organization
- Stretching Minds and Resources: 20 years of post secondary enrollment options in Minnesota (.pdf)
- College in the Schools at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Progress and Possibilities: Trends in Public High School Student Participation with Minnesotas Dual Credit Programs 2006-2011
- Minnesota Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships

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McAfee Recruits Mother of Three as Industry's First Chief Cyber Security Mom Key Findings: 58% of moms think the government is not doing enough to keep kids safe online 32% of teens clear the browser history to hide what they do online from their parents 34% of teen girls have given out photos or physical descriptions of themselves to strangers
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About two-thirds of mothers of teens in the United States are just as, or more, concerned about their teenagers' online safety, such as from threatening emails or solicitation by online sexual predators, as they are about drunk driving (62 per cent) and experimenting with drugs (65 per cent), according to new research released today by Internet security company McAfee, Inc.
This fear is supported by the McAfee study, which revealed that 52 per cent of teens have given out personal information to someone online they don't know offline, with 34 per cent of online teen girls having given out a photograph or a physical description of themselves to someone they don't know. The biggest hurdle mothers face is keeping track of what their kids do online, as 32 per cent of teens said they have cleared the browser history when they have finished using the computer, and 16 per cent have created private e-mail addresses or social networking profiles to hide what they do online from their parents.
"As a father of three I certainly worry about what my kids may do and encounter online," said Dave DeWalt, McAfee president and chief executive officer. "While progress has been made over the past decade to combat online dangers, they remain very real for our kids. Education is a key part of the McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, which we announced yesterday, because we know that informed parents will mean safer kids online."
The research conducted by Harris Interactive(R) for McAfee among more than 1,000 U.S. moms of online teens aged 13-17 and online teens aged 13-17, offers numerous insights into moms' fears and teenagers' behaviors on the Internet. Fifty-eight per cent of mothers do not believe the government is doing enough to keep children safe online. And moms no longer view their children's bedrooms as a safe place either - 44 per cent said they worry about their teens' safety when they are online in their bedroom unsupervised, and about one in four (24 per cent) are more concerned about what their children do online than what they do when they are out of the house. When it comes to their teens' online behavior, sharing too much personal information is a primary worry of 58 per cent of mothers.
Are Mothers Deluding Themselves About What Their Kids Do Online?
According to the study, the answer is a resounding "yes." McAfee's research found that 72 per cent of mothers have a verbal agreement with their teen - that is, a discussion of what is and is not allowed online - and 48 per cent admitted they don't always know what their kids do online. Through polling teens, McAfee discovered that the reality is that many teenagers are spinning a web of evasive operations to avoid their parents' supervision, while potentially exposing themselves and others to cyber dangers.
-- 63 per cent of teens said they know how to hide what they do online from their parents. 43 per cent have closed or minimized the browser at the sound of a parental step, 32 per cent have cleared the browser history when they have finished using the computer, 16 per cent have created private e-mail addresses or social networking profiles and 11 per cent have unlocked/disabled/ parental/filtering controls
-- 52 per cent of teens have given out personal information online to someone they don't know offline including personal photos and/or physical descriptions of themselves (24 per cent). Double the number of teen girls have shared photos or physical descriptions of themselves online as boys (34 per cent girls vs. 15 per cent boys)
-- 20 per cent of teens have engaged in cyberbullying behaviors, including posting mean or hurtful information or embarrassing pictures, spreading rumors, publicizing private communications, sending anonymous e-mails or cyberpranking someone
-- 9 per cent of teens have used the Internet to cheat at school
So how far will mothers go to keep a protective eye on their teen's activities online? In order to keep track of what their teen does online, a quarter (26 per cent) of moms said they have joined and "friended" their child on a social networking site, but many moms are going undercover to monitor their children. Fifty nine per cent said they check their child's browser history when they are done using the Internet and 15 per cent use a software program to monitor what their kids do online.
Many adolescents would be shocked by such underhand tactics. A quarter would be shocked (24 per cent), one in five would feel hurt (19 per cent) and 34 per cent would feel offended if they found out their mother, like Lynette, a mom on the television show, "Desperate Housewives," was keeping track of what they do online without their knowledge or permission.
The study marks a new education initiative by McAfee to help moms keep up with the latest online dangers and teach their kids to stay safe online with its appointments of Tracy Mooney as its first Chief Cyber Security Mom and online safety expert, lawyer and author Parry Aftab as its first Family Internet Safety Advisor.
First Cyber Security Mom
Recognizing that education is at least as important as technology, McAfee today announced the appointment of Tracy Mooney, a Chicago mother of three, as the industry's first Chief Cyber Security Mom.
"There are times I've felt overwhelmed trying to keep up with all the new things my kids are doing online," said Mooney. "There's a lot of information out there, parents just need to know where to go to find it. Kids will always want to break the rules and stretch boundaries and you have to give them their space and privacy. What works for me is acting before it happens and teaching them how to behave responsibly and safely online, as you would teach them to behave in the real world."
Writing as a parent for parents, Ms. Mooney, who recently participated in McAfee's "S.P.A.M. Experiment," will provide easy to understand information and advice to concerned mothers via her Web page at www.mcafee.com/mom. She will also be meeting with other moms and leading government and industry bodies on the subject of online safety in schools and communities.
"Through my own experience as the mother of three children, ages 17, 12 and 4 1/2 who are incredibly active online, I know how easy it is for your kids to get into danger online," said Mooney. "Last year, I found out my son was receiving threatening messages. That experience started me on a path to learn more about all the things I need to do as a parent to keep my kids safe from harm."
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To learn how to create a dialogue between parents and children about online safety, parents are invited to download "McAfee's 10 Step Internet Safety Plan" e-book at www.mcafee.com/advice.
About the Survey
Harris Interactive conducted this online survey within the United States on behalf of McAfee, Inc. between September 26 and October 8, 2008, among 529 teens ages 13-17 who access the Internet and between September 30 and October 10, 2008, among 598 women ages 18+ who are mothers/legal guardians of teens ages 13-17 who access the Internet. Data were weighted to be representative of each population respectively. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact Stuart Yeardsley (415) 618-8814.
About Harris Interactive(R)
Harris Interactive is a global leader in custom market research. With a long and rich history in multimodal research, powered by our science and technology, we assist clients in achieving business results. Harris Interactive serves clients globally through our North American, European and Asian offices and a network of independent market research firms. For more information, please visit www.harrisinteractive.com.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. It delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to browse and shop the Web securely. With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee empowers home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com.
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The Hunger Games book trilogy and movie focuses on a post-apocalyptic society where starvation plagues the nation. While those storylines are fiction, experts say thousands here in Central New York battle hunger issues every day. Now, local college students are using the popularity of the series to help feed their neighbors. Our Candace Hopkins has more from SUNY Oswego.
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- The Hunger Games series has taken the nation by storm and Saturday, SUNY Oswego students entered their own arena to battle for an important cause.
"It was two parts. One part campus event, one part charity." Dozens gathered to cheer on the 24 student tributes as they went head to head, using foam weapons to take out their opponents, all in an effort to spread awareness about the real life hunger issues plaguing Oswego County.
"We have a lot of people from different areas coming up here and I think it's great to have them mix in and to understand what kind of community do you live in, you live on campus and dorm life and you don't really realize that there's a whole entire town around you that almost depends on you, so it's almost like time to give back," said Hunger Games organizer Garrett Wilson.
Wilson says he came up with the idea to hold an Oswego Hunger Games after finishing reading the book series and says he thought it was an ideal way to bring the campus community and the City of Oswego closer together.
Wilson said, "We feel like Oswego really needs that, we need to tie ourselves in with the community more often. The campus is kinda like separated and we really have to bond ourselves with them."
For the tributes themselves, many jumped at the unique chance to give back and to encourage their friends to do the same.
"I'm really big into community service. I did it all through high school. I was in service club and stuff, so I definitely wanted my friends to donate money not only to sponsor me, but to give money to the food shelf," said Hunger Games winner Devin Storment.
And while one student is walking away with the crown, the real winner is the Central New York Food Bank, receiving over $800 in donations from the games.


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I've long maintained that benefits associated with these tools are mostly how they change us. Netflix + Roku is changing my "watching behavior" in a way that is consistent with the rest of my interactions.
Netflix teaches a valuable lesson about our personal brand too. We think of our presentation as timeline linear. Why? Shouldn't we create building blocks with tags? If I'm looking at a resume why doesn't it know that I'm an Internet marketer and so arrange the relevant blocks I want to see at the top?
Surely this "predictive analytics" resume is more valuable than static information. LinkedIn take note. I have at least six ways into my experience:
* Brand Marketing.
* Internet Marketing.
* Email Marketing.
* Ecommerce.
* Content Marketing.
* Social Media Marketing.
Why can't we create blocks for each of these and present based on the relevance to the viewer? If that sounds like email marketing it is because predictive analytics infused web design (or resume design) looks and feels like email marketing.
K, commercial break is over better get back to watching whatever the heck some programming genius wants me to watch right along with the goofystupid ads for stuff I will never buy or care about.
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For some reason Wayne Thielbold's paintings like these cupcakes remind me of this Zen parable:
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We've identified 7 "Hero Archetype" Including:
* Enlightened.
* Vicarious.
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* Rescue.
* Stranger.
* Like Us.
* Togehter.
Websites and personal brands should be able to speak language consistent with all 7 hero "archetypes" depending on context. Find examples of each in Google Docs here: http://bit.ly/14LcUpg
Tell us what kind of hero you are most likley to create in your personal brand here: http://bit.ly/15JLOi2
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Want to create the perfect professional LinkedIn profile? Here's a checklist of 17 must-have items, including keyword advice, endorsements and more!
Great personal branding tips for LI here.
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The Appification of Ecommerce
About a year ago I purchased a new MacBook Air. Seeing how my new laptop related to the world much like an iPad with apps and an app store was a revelation. Apps will rule the world.
This trend is why we are all app builders now and these tutorials are a must view. The trend toward apps is more than you think. A few days ago I shared a Haiku Deck about the future of web design 3.0 (http://sco.lt/7r6zkf).
I missed the appification of everything. Apps, the widget-like shrinking of code to Lego blocks, form the core of mobile programming. Since mobile is taking over the smart move is to "appify" everything.
This means thinking of websites as interconnected blocks responding to each other and our visitors in real time (as described in the deck). Best demonstration or analogy for this fluid app future is MIT's David Merrill explaining Siftable at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html .
The way Siftables related to one another (they are aware other Siftables are present and have a desire to connect if code expressed as a toy can have desires) and link in order to create a sum is greater than the whole universe is a great way to think about the New Ecommerce.
The new ecom is location agnostic (capable of converting anywhere at anytime and with the merest snippet of Siftable-like code), socially self aware (capable of pulling friends and their influencers into the equation) and appified (small Lego-like blocks snapped together to meet specific needs).
Sometimes we will snap in the predictive analytics block sometimes we might now. Other times we will want the social share block other times not. Design, in this Siftables-like future, becomes a series of WHAT IF conditions and testing, always testing.
Going to be fun and why it is a GOOD idea to become an app builder.
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In 5 New Ecommerce Lessons on ScentTrail Marketing I explained why everyone should have a store. This post goes further insisting everyone should have a sto
Crowdfunding You
This link is to a post about how crowdfunding and ecommerce are stronger together than apart. Can crowdfunding and ecommerce help your personal brand too? Yes and here's how.
How To Crowdfund & Ecom Yourself
Crowdfunding is a fancy way of saying, "Create a marketplace platform". Anything can become a platform including your ideas. The addition of a crowdfunding platform is about to be SaaS easy (one of the things we are working on at AtlanticBT.com is creating an inexpensive SaaS to add crowdfunding to anything).
Anytime you ask for the sentient mob to weigh in you are crowdfunding. When you use 99Designs.com to create a logo you are crowdsourcing and they are crowdfunding (since you pay them). Here are a few ideas for personal crowdfunding / crowdsourcing:
* Polls and Surveys.
* Contests and Games.
* Ideas.
* Content marketing.
* Network building.
* Link shares.
Transform your thinking about your personal brand in three ways:
1. Lose the "Personal".
2. Become a rich PLATFORM not a website.
3. Think Brand US not YOU.
When you shift your thinking about how you present yourself from a closed loop "all about me" to an open and social "all about us" your Internet marketing power goes up tenfold.
Ecom Yourself
When I say, "Go Ecom Yourself," it is not an insult. When you create a store you experience Internet marketing at a different level. We can TALK about taxonomy, visual organization and other web design concepts all day, but creating a single store will teach you faster.
These days creating a store is cheap and fast. I created the Story of Cancer Store (https://storyofcancer.gostorego.com/) in a matter of days. Become an Amazon and Apple affiliate and sell books, music and cool tech. The process of creating the store, writing the copy and learning the ropes will be invaluable if you never make a dime.
The next time you interview make sure your store URL is on your resume. Hiring managers want people who can create things and your store is sure to create a more robust and viable brand no matter what job you apply for.
so go Ecom Yourself and use your crowdfunding platform to tell you what to sell :). M
PS. BTW, Scoopit is an amazing crowdfunding tool. Scoopit provides the fastest content marketing feedabck loop on the web. I am determined to figure out how to hang a store off it too (stay tuned). Marty
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Personal Branding & SEO
It is easy to make personal banding SEO mistakes. Avoid these 5 common personal branding SEO mistakes and you will get that new job, increase your network and finally be fully appreciated :).
5 Common Personal Branding Mistakes
1. No Google Plus Profile (BIG Mistake).
2. Not using your Google Profile page to support your brand.
3. Not thinking of you as a "Brand" needing curation and SEO.
4. Only use ONE social net (got to use em all...sorry).
5. Not using keywords.
I could go on and on here since it is easy for all of us to ignore our brands until we want to change jobs or take some action. Waiting until you want to make a change is a BAD idea. Personal brands are best tended daily and not in an emergency situation.
Google Plus is the most disruptive social net. When author tags become common, and they will, your G+ presence will be beyond important. Get active on Google Plus today if you aren't already.
Everything you do either builds or destroys your personal brand. There is no neutral, so swimming in place, in online marketing. You WILL do things that hurt your personal brand since that is unavoidable. Don't obsess.
Instead of insisting on a false perfection work on winning more "personal brand" battles than you are losing. Be sure to be active on AT LEAST 5 social nets: Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and one other of your choosing (such as @Scoopit).
Be sure to use KEYWORDS such as "Internet marketing" or "email marketing" when discussing your experience. Keywords are your friends :).
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This originally appeared on LinkedIn. You can follow Adam Grant here. One of the highlights of becoming an author is getting to read some exciting books in advance, and hearing early buzz about others.
Wow, social media has killed my book reading. Rare a year would go by and a list like this published with NOT A SINGLE book read but that is what just happened. TIme to do some reading.
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Carne Ross TheLeaderlessRevolution.com is great video content presented well. I like the minimal approach. Man in a white shirt and black suit speaking directly into the camera. By strippig the environment clean attention is focused on the talking head. Well done.
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"Storytelling is like sex" wrote David Mamet, "everyone can do it, some of us are better at it than others." After three years of studying non-fiction storytell
Any 5 of these 50 tips can help you tell better stories. Oh, btw we are all storytellers know. The story is the Lego building block of content and content is the building block of everything.
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Marketing is social now so understanding how quickly the distinction between US and THEM is eroding by using social media marketing's magical feedback loops is beyond important.
From the archive came up the other day when I discussed how David Edelman from McKinsey was kind enough to Tweet the post and say nice things.
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Idea is simple. I'm an Internet marketer with more than 14 years of B2C and B2B online marketing experience. Tomorrow any Small to medium sized business who wants to ask a queston will have my undivided attention. I guarantee if I don't know the answer I know a friend (and fellow IMer) who will :).
Cost for this consultation is and will always be ZERO since I get as much out of these impromtu meetings as people with IM and SMM questions. Hope you cn join us after a long hiatus.
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Do you have what it takes to rank among the remarkably successful? There are people whose names are synonymous with success. These people work differe
I have several favorite LESSSONS in this infographic including EFFORT and You Are Going To Have To SELL.
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via Stuff.co.nz Making mistakes is an inevitable part of being human, but documenting our lives on social media is making them harder to forget. The Victorian state government has renewed a ...
Yes it is and forever can be a very long time. Why best to actively manage your online brand.
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From those doing manual labor to those in the C-suite, workers of all kinds are facing more pressure to embrace an entrepreneurial way of thinking.
As Seth Godin writes so well in Linchpin and Icarus the old days are gone. The "new paternalism" is take care of you because no one else will. This is not to say be selfish since altruism is an important idea for any personal brand.
To whom much is given much is expected. We lucky few Internet marketers must be devoted to three ideas:
* Lifelong learning.
* Service to something smarter, bigger and greater than ourselves.
* Listening more than we talk.
* Marketing sure we make money when we speak.
Money isn't the root of all evil nor does it make someone who has it special or cool. Money is always dead net neurtal, but hard to keep the doors open and ideas flowing without making money.
Money is also the best VOTE after rabid advocacy. Since your marketing efforts are more likely to get money votes than rabid advocacy money becomes the vox populi that teaches us what to do and what not to do.
Great post here on why everyone needs to walk the entrepreneur talk.
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I've done hundreds of radio interviews throughout my career. They seem simple. After all, you just pick up a phone or visit a studio and have a conversation with the host.
But radio interviews are nothing like normal conversations (unless your friends take listener phone calls and toss to a commercial break every few minutes!). Remember these seven rules for your next radio interview...
Great insights from Jeff and I'm doing my next radio interview on Wednesay for cure Cancer Starter so timely :). M
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New SpinSnip Content Marketing Tool Suite Content marketers don't have tools needed to curate and create. There is a large and growing confidence gap. 86% of
SpinSnipping YOU
One of the applications of our new content management tools will be the ability to "SpinSnip You". We all have content hither and yon doing who knos what. SpinSnips is a series of tools that help content marketers have control over their creations.
SpinSnip also helps know what content resonates. How valuable would knowing that everytime you blog about content marketing your shares come in 30% over their average be for your business and personal brand?
Personal brands may have different care and feeding needs. You mayneed to share more personal stories to win hearts and minds and views for your LinkedIn profile than you would ever want to share on yoru company's blog.
SpinSnip makes it possible to KNOW what content is helping you get that next great job and what conent is HURTING your chances. What is that worth?
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If your online marketing matters to you at all BLOG. If you are not blogging you are nuts and this post explains 10 reasons why. Here are my blog:
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Howard Schultz CEO, Hero
I thought of Starbucks CEO as a hero before watching this amazing Board of Trade interview about his new book Onward. Onward is about how Schultz got the right people in the right seats on the Starbucks bus turning the company around and changing the world.
Why was Schultz already a hero? I have cancer, leukemia, and during the dark days when I wasn't sure I could keep a job and so would lose my insurance the fact that Starbucks let its hourly employees have health insurance was my last line of defense.
Luckily I never had to use my last line of defense. Not "luckily" because I don't want to work for Starbucks (who knows on that front). I would walk across hot coals for Howard and I LOVE his company too. I love Starbucks for different reasons.
I love Starbucks because they are values based and walk their talk. When Schultz looks direclty at the camera in this snippet (taped with my iPhone off the TV) and says LOVE is one of the secrets to getting Starbucks back on track I want to hug the man.
I've been waxing philosophical about the need for marketing to SAVE THE WORLD (http://www.slideshare.net/martinmartysmith/save-the-world-marketing ) for about a year. Schultz is more powerful than me by an order of magnitude so his "use case" is dramatic support for something I believe in my TOES - Love is the Killer App and you must SAVE THE WORLD in some meaningful way to have any relevance now that the world is flat, connected and furiously fast :).
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My Keynote given at the Digital Communications Tour sponsored by GovDelivery April 24, 2013. Once you have a plan and a policy you can connect and converse with your customers using social media.
Slide #28 is from my Storytelling is the new SEO Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/martinmartysmith/storytelling-new-seo). The cool part is how I new that.
I'm using @Scoopit at my ORM tool. Reviewing my Scoopit recommendations I saw a slideshare that wasn't mine. I have my slideshare as one of the keywords Scoopit looks for.
I went to the Slideshare I didn't recognize (the one above) and used the Find feature to find my name. Sure enough slide #28 is from my Storytelling is the new SEO presentation.
Magical tool this Scoopit especially when you think that ORM SaaS tools can costs tens fo thousands. The use of @Scoopit for ORM can be FREE if you have 5 or less Scoops. Free sure beats $20K.
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Kramer vs Kramer was one of the first movies that made a BIG impact on me. Meryl Streep played icy beautiful to Dustin Hoffman's bumbling relatability. I could not stop looking at her. Her lovely hair, her perfect face, her effortlessly stylish ways. She was amazing. I really wanted her to stay with Dustin and be a family with their cute kid let. (Spoiler Alert : she didn't! Oh!)
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Particularly in need are warm clothing, food, school supplies and beds, as well as blankets, toiletries, cleaning supplies, shoes, etc., especially in children's sizes 2T to 16, according to Lydia Gamboa, Adopt-A-Family program coordinator. Also desired, she added, are Christmas gifts for children, including toys and games.
Adopt-A-Family is seeking financial donations, said Gamboa, and offers a variety of "sponsorship" opportunities, in which donors may finance basic needs, sponsor individual families, or underwrite a "gift box" that includes two weeks' worth of food, practical hygiene and cleaning supplies, blankets, clothing and special presents for each member of the family.
Distribution day is scheduled Dec. 17, and Gamboa said there is a need for volunteers who have large vehicles and trucks to deliver gifts to the recipient families who live in or near downtown Los Angeles. Volunteers gather for distribution at 7 a.m., starting with a prayer service at the Cathedral, led by Archbishop José Gomez, who will then join the volunteers in the delivery of the gifts.
As is customary, The Tidings will feature this week and next brief profiles of families who are among those in need. They include:
FAMILY T01: For Eduardo, Maria and their four children, life has been anything but hopeful. Eduardo's hours have been cut drastically to a mere one or two days a week. "With these kinds of hours, how do they expect me to provide for my family?" he told us. He says he has always been a hard worker but cannot work hard when there is no work at all.
As Christians, we are called to bring hope to the hopeless. We are called to shine Christ's light into the darkness. The Adopt-A-Family Program was created in response to this call.
His wife Maria echoes her husband's worry. "We cannot provide the necessities for our children --- food and clothing," she said. "I pray to God as He is our only hope." Families in such situations are one of the main reasons why the Adopt-A-Family Program provides a two-week supply of food as well as clothing.
FAMILY T02: For the past couple years, Christmas time for the Lito Family means seeing lights go up in every window in every home, except theirs. "Every year," the mother tells us, "my children ask the same thing: 'Can we put up decorations? Can we get a tree? Can we get this toy?' And every year I have to tell them the same thing: 'Not this year, but I promise next year.'"
Work has been extremely slow for these parents of four. Both work in the garment district in downtown Los Angeles and they say just about everyone is "feeling it." In their apartment, there are no signs of beds and hardly any furniture. They all eat and sleep on the floor. The father says they are two months behind in their bills.
FAMILY #T03: Upon entering the Velasquez home, one cannot help but ask, "What happened to your eye?" Mr. Velasquez told us how one day he went out to get milk for his one-year-old son and was attacked and robbed in broad daylight. They left him to die in the street in front of his apartment building.
"My five-year-old daughter came out and found me, and she is now traumatized," the father says. "She thinks if I go outside I will lose my eye!"
Since then the father has been unable to work. The family is behind in rent and bills, with no hope or guarantee that they will ever catch up. "We have so many worries right now," said Mrs. Velasquez breaking into tears. "And with Christmas coming, it makes me so sad to know we can't give our three children anything."
"As Christians," said Gamboa, "we are called to bring hope to the hopeless. We are called to shine Christ's light into the darkness. The Adopt-A-Family Program was created in response to this call. Through the sacrifices of children and adults alike, the program has brought hope, through the Light of Christ, to families struggling to survive in our city's darkest streets."
For information on how to assist, call (213) 637-7501 or visit www.olacathedral.org and click on the Adopt-A-Family link. Donations can be sent to: Adopt-A-Family, 3424 Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90010; please make checks payable to Adopt-A-Family.
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WGR Sports Radio 550 has learned from a league source that Syracuse University head coach Doug Marrone is expected to be the next head coach of the Bills. The source said although nothing is done, the college coach would be the next man in charge in Buffalo barring any last minute breakdowns.
Marrone to the Bills was initially reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter, who reported the two sides have reached an agreement. NFL.com and CBSSports.com have also confirmed Schefter's intiial report.
Marrone spent four seasons with the Syracuse Orange as their head coach and is noted for building their program back up from being one of the worst programs in a BCS conference. Over that span, he amassed a 25-25 record, culminating with an 8-5 record in 2012.
The Bronx, NY native took over that post from Greg Robinson, who went a combined 10-37 over the course of his four seasons as head coach. Marrone is an alumnus of Syracuse, having played offensive line for the school.
Before being named the Orange's head coach, Marrone spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints, where he did not call the plays for Sean Payton's squad.
Marrone was one of five men that the Bills interviewed by the end of Friday. The team also spoke with former Arizona head coach Ken Whisenhunt, Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton, Oregon head coach Chip Kelly and former Chicago head coach Lovie Smith.
Of the seven teams to fire their head coach, the Bills are the second to fill their vacancy. The Kansas City Chiefs and former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid reached an agreement on Friday.
Marrone is the first college coach to reportedly bolt for the NFL, despite much speculation that Oregon's Chip Kelly would be the head coach of an NFL team next season. Marrone also had an interview with the Cleveland Browns, and reportedly had an interview scheduled with both the Eagles and San Diego Chargers.
The Bills have yet to officially announce the hire.
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Pistachio cookies with dark chocolate shell
Prep: 30 minutes
Cook: 46 minutes
Makes: about 24 cookies
Note: From Liza Antelo, of Chicago.
2 cups shelled pistachios, about 12 ounces
2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon water
Granulated sugar, for rolling
4 ounces dark chocolate
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1. Heat oven to 300 degrees. Toast pistachios in the oven on a baking sheet until fragrant, 6-7 minutes. Allow to cool. Process nuts (in a food processor) until finely ground but not yet a paste.
2. Use an electric mixer at high speed to beat the butter with the confectioners' sugar and salt. Beat until light and fluffy. Lower the speed; gradually add flour until just blended. Do not overbeat. Add vanilla, almond extract and water. Gently mix in pistachios. Form into a ball.
3. Roll tablespoons of dough into balls. Pour about 1/2 cup granulated sugar into a shallow dish; roll and coat the balls in the sugar. Place the balls about 2 inches apart on greased or parchment-lined cookie sheets. Press down lightly on each cookie with the bottom of a glass to flatten slightly.
4. Bake on the top and middle shelves of the oven, about 20 minutes. Switch the sheets around; bake until cookies are slightly browned, 20 minutes. Cool cookies on baking sheet, 10 minutes.
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Per serving: 204 calories, 14 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 21 mg cholesterol, 16 g carbohydrates, 3 g protein, 50 mg sodium, 2 g fiber.
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