Positioning and Personality: How Nonprofits Build Strategic Brands

Columbia's Strategic Communications program invites you to an upcoming workshop, "Positioning and Personality: How Nonprofits Build Strategic Brands" on Friday, November 13. Sarah Durham, the principal and founder of Big Duck, a communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits, will be the guest speaker. The workshop will explore how nonprofits leverage best practices from the for-profit marketing world to build relationships with key audiences.

Positioning and Personality: How Nonprofits Build Strategic Brands
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Master of Science in Strategic Communications
School of Continuing Education
Columbia University
www.ce.columbia.edu/stratcomm

BT's Ribbit releasing Google Voice competitor

by Rafe Needleman

Sure, Google Voice is cool, but it's not necessarily the best Web-meets-phone service one can imagine, is it? The field is still open, and switchboard-in-the-cloud company Ribbit (a division of BT) will stir things up when users get their hands on Ribbit Mobile, a new telephony service for consumers.

Like Google Voice as of last week, Ribbit Mobile adds services to your existing mobile phone number, using a standard telephone company service called Conditional Call Forwarding. You set up your phone service to route to the service when you don't pick up the phone, and it gives you all its features on the calls it then grabs: voicemail, forwarding, routing, and so on.

SATURDAY, NOV 7-BIGGEST NYC College Fair--$300K in scholarships

SPREAD the WORD to YOUR YOUTH!

Urban Word NYC & NY Knicks Annual College Fair and Open Poetry Audition
November 7th, 10AM-3PM
Hammerstein Ballroom (34th Street @ 8th Ave)
 

Featuring 60+ colleges and universities, 10am-2pm
All Day Entertainment (spoken word, hip-hop, dance)
Open Poetry Audition (Spit a 1-minute poem to enter the Spoken Word Competition for cash scholarships), 10am-3pm
All Day Workshops (financial aid, essay writing)
Register for full-ride scholarships to University of Wisconsin and Mercy College for Seniors in the "Why I Write" written contest

This is the college fair event of the year!

The Knicks Poetry Slam Program is broken up into two contests, Spoken Word and Written.  

1. Spoken Word Competition — A Poetry Slam competition where students progress through an Open Audition, Poetry Workshops, Preliminary Slams, Semi-final Slams, all to compete at the Knicks Poetry Slam Finals at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.

Spoken Word Prizes

• 1st place - $10,000 laptop and printer
• 2nd place - $7,500 laptop and printer
• 3rd place - $5,000 laptop and printer
• 4th — 10th place - $1,000

To be eligible for this competition, participants must prepare a 1-minute poem audition and perform before a panel of judges at the College Fair on November 7th between 10am-3pm. Top scorers will be placed in a 5-week writing workshop series taking place at sites across the city. Open to teens ages 13-19 years old.

2. Written Competition — students must submit a portfolio of original work including: an essay "The Reason I Write", poetry samples, community service and a resume. The portfolio will be reviewed by a panel of judges to determine the winners.

Written contest Prizes

• 2 full scholarships (4 years) to the University of Wisconsin
• 1 full tuition scholarship (4 year) to Mercy College

To be eligible for this competition, participants must register here. No audition is necessary. Open to High School Seniors. 

3.The New York Knicks College Fair
(YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ENTER A COMPETITION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COLLEGE FAIR)

The New York Knicks College Fair will be held on November 7, 2009 from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M in the Hammerstein Ballroom in the Manhattan Center.

This College Fair is one of the most unique annual college fairs around the tri-state area. High school students are encouraged to come out and meet with over 60 colleges and universities from around the country. While exploring the fair, you will be able to watch master poets and dance groups perform, listen to music and live bands, and interact with over 2,000 students. In addition to all of these festivities, there are two dynamic Poetry competitions going on at the same time.

College application workshops will be conducted throughout the day and financial aid advisors will be on hand to answer any questions.

Special guests, including Knicks Alumni, will make periodic appearances throughout the day and sign autographs.

***Remember that each person attending the College Fair must register.***

Register at http://www.nba.com/knicks/community/poetryslam.html

Black Enterprise $10,000 Home Ownership Contest

Black Enterprise $10,000 Home Ownership Contest deadline extended to Nov. 18th. Apply today!

Thanks to Monique for the information. 

Solar Power: Increasingly in Reach

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Solar Power: Increasingly in Reach

The cost of generating electricity from solar panels has dropped steadily over the past three decades, from nearly $100 per watt in 1975 to less than $7 per watt today. Rising demand for materials has raised prices in recent years, but costs are expected to resume their downward trend as technology improves and production ramps up to meet demand.

Source: Evaluating the potential of solar technologies

Copyright © 2009 McKinsey & Company. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission

HARLEM ARTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

HARLEM ARTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Tuesday, November 10, 4PM Miller Theatre 2960 Broadway

4:00 - 5:30pm: Master Class with The Dance Theatre of Harlem's Founder and Artistic Director, Arthur Mitchell

6:00 - 7:00pm: Conversation with The Studio Museum of Harlem's Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden

Reception to follow

FREE

TheCareerProject.org Celebrates Helping their 1 millionth Job Seeker and Student

TheCareerProject.org is an interactive career profile database that allows job seekers to learn the intimate details of thousands of jobs directly from the people who work them. In today's job market, The Career Project has become an essential and unique career resource for job seekers and students to research thousands of professions.

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 22, 2009 -- http://www.TheCareerProject.org celebrates helping one million job seekers and students since it's launch in 2007. With over 2500 mentors and career profiles in 30 career fields, TheCareerProject.org provides the new starting point for job seekers researching different career paths. The Career Project's fresh perspective has garnered praise from educational and career organizations for providing users the unique ability to learn about thousands of careers directly from the people who work them. In their first year over 60 colleges registered including New York University (http://www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment/students/careerproject.php), Williams, Bates, University of Texas and University of Colorado.

If you would like more information on TheCareerProject.org or to participate, please contact Alicia Schwartz at 212-624-5868. The 13th Grade, LLC

The Grio: Top 25 trailblazers who define the modern black woman

Top 25 trailblazers who define the modern black woman by Ronda Racha Penrice

How do we define what it means to be a black woman in today's America? Is she smart? Is she beautiful? Healthy? Capable? What readily comes to mind and why? Who is the quintessential black woman and how did she get here?

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Top 10 Job Search Do's and Don'ts

Top 10 Job Search Do's and Don'ts By Alison Doyle
What should you do when you're job searching? And what shouldn't you do? There's a laundry list of things that can help your job search and things that can hinder it.