SNCR Fellows’ News and Updates
The Society for New Communications Research Fellowship is a year-long, volunteer-based program. SNCR issues a call for applications once a year in December. Applicants who are selected collaborate with the other SNCR Fellows on original research and educational programs. The fellowship program is highly competitive. A maximum of 12 new Fellows are accepted each year.
The Society’s Fellows include a leading group of futurists, scholars, business leaders, professional communicators, members of the media and technologists from around the globe – all collaborating together on research initiatives, educational offerings and the establishment of best practices.
Our Fellows stay engaged not only with SNCR, but also offer their expertise to other groups in the form of speaking engagements, published articles and/or books, and a variety of other ways.
ELISA CAMAHORT PAGE
You can find SNCR Founding Fellow Elisa Camahort Page at the following upcoming speaking engagements:
09/17/09: Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, CA | Part of a series on entrepreneurship from a woman’s perspective.
09/28/09: Digital Influence Group, East Palo Alto, CA | Measuring Social Media ROI
11/12/09: The Texas Conference for Women in Houston, TX
Also, BlogHer has partnered with the Sunlight Foundation (and has engaged with the White House) in order to promote civil omni-partisan conversation around health care reform. Here is some of the latest work engaging the BlogHer community in the debate about health care reform:
How do we make “Health Care” as sexy as “Beer Summit”? Obama Administration asks BlogHer to help. Will you?
NORA GANIM BARNES, PhD
Senior Fellow Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes will be teaching Social Media in Marketing at UMass this semester. Also, Nora’s Center for Marketing Research will continue their longitudinal studies of the Inc. 500, Higher Ed and Not-for-Profits. In addition, they will take another look at the Fortune 500 and their adoption of social media. This research agenda begins in September 2009 and continues until the Spring of 2010.
KATHY KLOTZ-GUEST
Founding Fellow Kathy Klotz-Guest is working on her next book, which focuses on outstanding and fun customer experiences. If you have recent examples of unexpectedly great (beyond your expectations) customer experiences, drop Kathy a line. Tell her what stood out and why!
SHEL ISRAEL
Senior Fellow Shel Israel ’s new book Twitterville: How businesses can thrive in the new Global Neighborhoods became available September 3rd from book merchants online and off.
Shel was recently featured at SNCR’s An Evening with Shel Israel. He is also on a five-city cross-Canada tour Sept. 13-18, arranged by SNCR Fellow Joe Thornley.
Shel has been doing a few interviews a day, all related to his book. He has done about 10 podcasts and his book has been favorably reviewed in five noted blogs. Shel has been interviewed twice by MSNBC, Forbes, BusinessWeek, USA Today, CNN and others.
STEVEN L. LUBETKIN
Senior Fellow Steve Lubetkin presented a two-day workshop on Social Media at the Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State in Arlington, VA, September 3-4, 2009. About 35 foreign service officers in the Public Diplomacy and Cultural Affairs disciplines attended.
SUSANNE G. ROCKWELL
SNCR Fellow Susanne G. Rockwell spoke to the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club in August about social media and had four converts to Facebook, plus helped someone set up a group page. She will be giving a similar talk to the Rotary Club of Davis in October or November.
Representing UC Davis, Susanne and her colleague, Andy Fell, will be giving an hour presentation to communicators at Harvard University and the New England Science Writers on how to incorporate social media into their communications programs. The invitation stemmed from a presentation they made to the National Association of Science Writers last fall about how the UC Davis communications department is using social media to reach out to new audiences.
DANNY O. SNOW
Senior Fellow Danny O. Snow presented a SNCR paper at the annual conference of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association in Minneapolis on August 15.
Danny is currently working with the board of directors of the national organization to secure representation for independent publishers with the Book Rights Registry, as part of the much-publicized settlement regarding Google Book Search’s upcoming release of millions of books online.
Smashwords.com has re-released Danny’s 2002 collection titled Steal this e-Book! (an irreverent look at the ‘prehistoric’ days of e-publishing) as a free download for the Kindle, iPhone, Sony e-Reader, etc.
