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09/06/2019

“Every person is their own media company these days. Messages from friends and family cut through the noise. Create a participatory approach for your marketing / messaging to encourage people to adopt, adapt, and amplify your biz messages as their own.”

One of the tips Lauren shared at the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC Marketing for Small Business panel on Tuesday.

📷: Jenny DeVries

08/16/2019

"Interactions on social media force us to look beyond simple labels and view people as complex beings. When we see someone’s vacation photos, wedding photos, birthday celebrations, expressions of grief at losing someone they loved — their gender, race, religion, nationality, profession, or age doesn’t really matter. Those feelings of love and joy and loss and pain are universal. When we can feel along with someone else, we can start to see the world differently....

"Seeing people via social media prevents us from vilifying those who are different from us. It reminds us that people are multi-faceted with multiple and conflicting characteristics, interests, and, yes, prejudices.

"It’s possible — even likely — for a person to say vile and hateful things in one breath and helpful, healing things in another. The person who disagrees with us most loudly on politics may be the only person who brings soup when we’re sick. In a world that seems to be becoming more and more polarized, it’s important to recognize an enemy on one issue may be a strong ally on another. Just because we can’t see eye to eye on one topic doesn’t mean we’re on opposing sides of all topics … or that we can’t find some common ground somewhere." --Lauren Hug, Digital Kindness: Being Human in a Hyper-Connected World

08/14/2019

Last week Lauren spoke at the Garden of the Gods Rotary Club about her new book Digital Kindness: Being Human in a Hyper-Connected World.

Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Kindness-Being-Human-Hyper-Connected-ebook/dp/B07T6BX376/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

08/13/2019

In a world of countless channels and tons of noise, advocates and ambassadors need to be equipped to share messages in a variety of ways.

Yesterday Lauren facilitated advocacy training for the leadership of Colorado PTA. This organization has been advocating for children for over a century! It was an honor to share "new" advocacy techniques for our hybrid physical/digital world as well as provide "traditional" public speaking and presentation skills training.

08/08/2019

Our world needs kindness right now. Social media is flooded with anger, frustration, fear, despair, and negativity. Technology allows us to interact instantly, but people feel ignored, unheard, misunderstood, discouraged, alone. What if we choose to change that? What if we use digital media to connect, build relationships, and better understand our fellow human beings? What if we use it to build a better world? This book presents a proactive approach to digital kindness, guiding the reader on a personalized journey toward purposeful digital engagement in a hyper-connected world.

Our world needs kindness right now. Social media is flooded with anger, frustration, fear, despair, and negativity. Technology allows us to interact instantly, but people feel ignored, unheard, misunderstood, discouraged, alone. What if we choose to change that? What if we use digital media to co...

04/27/2017

It's about time! Now your business or organization can let anyone "go live" on behalf of your business page!

How will you use this new Facebook feature?

Pages can now designate individuals as a Live Contributor

03/13/2017

So many amazing things happening in Colorado Springs!

For nearly 17 years, there’s been only a trickle of venture capital in Colorado Springs. Despite efforts by groups like High Altitude Investors, advice from the Rockies Venture Club in Denver and help from individual investors like Bill Miller — the city’s businesses haven’t realized much in the way...

03/02/2017

Interesting thoughts on the (potential) demise of Snapchat. Are you still using it, or is Instagram Stories more your jam?

Snapchat is the darling of technology: for years, we’ve fawned over the company for being innovative, using daring interfaces and out of the ordinary