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Infusing Personality versus Personal Branding

Posted on: July 19th, 2010 by Geoff Livingston 1 Comment

Personal-Professional Mix in Social Media with Geoff Livingston from Kivi Leroux Miller on Vimeo.

Kivi Leroux Miller, author of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide, interviewed me last week on the balance between infusing personality into your online communications and personal branding. During the conversation, we talked about how several nonprofits are handling this, including the National Wildlife Federation, the Humane Society of the United States, LIVESTRONG (Lance Armstrong Foundation), and Goodwill of Greater Washington DC, as well as corporate examples Dell and Ford’s Scott Monty.

In Kivi’s words: You have to be genuine, generous, and grateful in social media to succeed, which means you have to be a real person. But if you go too far in putting yourself out there — what some people would call building your personal brand — you can overshadow the nonprofit cause that you are representing. Finding this right personal/professional mix is challenging, especially for small nonprofits.

Thanks for having me as a guest on your blog, Kivi!

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What We Hope to Achieve – #citizengulf

Posted on: June 28th, 2010 by Geoff Livingston No Comments

Our mission has grand hopes. We don’t just want to engage in Citizen journalism. We want to provide a means for Americans across the country to act in a mindful, impactful way. The above 2 minute video details our line of thinking.

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A Sneak Preview of @kanter and @afine’s The Networked Nonprofit

Posted on: June 17th, 2010 by Geoff Livingston 1 Comment

As co-founder of the NonProfit 2.0 Conference and Beth’s business partner, I was thrilled to get a sneak preview of Beth Kanter and Allison Fine‘s The Networked Nonprofit a couple weeks ago at the Personal Democracy Forum. The following two minute movie provides a synapsis of the book’s thesis. It is a compilation of their keynote and sound bites from a phone interview they did on site.

NonProfit 2.0 attendees will get to hear Beth and Allison interviewed live next Friday, November 25 for their keynote session by co-founder Shireen Mitchell. Also, attendee or not you are invited to a virtual book launch party! Join Beth and Allison on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass.

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Social Media Rabbi Outtakes

Posted on: February 24th, 2009 by Geoff Livingston No Comments

I’m not sure if you saw the Social Media Rabbi video yet, but if you haven’t check it out. In addition to the video, I did prepare a short outtakes film of some silly moments shooting the movie.  Here they are:

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Facebook in Reality

Posted on: January 28th, 2009 by Geoff Livingston No Comments


This is too funny!

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Georgetown Video Surpasses 5K Views

Posted on: December 25th, 2008 by Geoff Livingston No Comments

Hard to believe it, but maybe I already shot my “viral video.” When I first bought my PDX-10 I shot a walking tour of Georgetown and clipped it on WIndows. I’ve learned much more since then, but have yet to deliver the viral hit I hoped for. Well maybe I did by accident.

Certainly leaves a lot to be desired, but folks seem to like it. More than 5K views on YouTube. If it surpasses ten K, well, I’ll be shockingly surprised. So there it is.

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25 Random Things You Probably Already Knew About Me

Posted on: December 25th, 2008 by Geoff Livingston 2 Comments

Jessica, my high school blogging bud, tagged me in the 25 things you probably already knew about me meme. I promised her I would write the list as soon as I got through the work year, so here we are:

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1) I’ve lost a great deal of weight recently, and damn happy about it, too!

2) I love science fiction books and movies. While I can be very eclectic in tastes, this inevitably is my sweet spot.

3) I like riding motorcycles. A lot.

4) Now Is Gone is the book I wrote, but I wanted to write a novel instead.

5) There are 101 things I’d like to do before I die.

6) People that buy into their “personal brand” or other pseudo Internet fame related stuff drive me crazy. It’s absolute utter bullshit.

7) I am teaching a class at Georgetown next spring.
8) My dog is a black pug named Junior!

9) Coffee and cigars are my two biggest vices of consumption (mmm, good idea!)

10) Baseball is my favorite sport by a long, long mile.

11) Twitter: Love/hate relationship is an understatement. Right now it’s some serious hate.

12) I love a good steak. Gibson’s in Chicago is my fav steakhouse.

13) Sneaker fetish: Yup, I love em. Kinda like Turtle on Entourage (yeah, I know that’s embarassing).

14) Video is an exciting not so new medium for me that seems to be intriguing, yet not enough to take the full-on dive. Satisfied with being an amateur.

15) I used to be a wireless reporter.

16) In college, my nickname was stovetop (God help me).

17) I went to Georgetown grad, but AU was the home of most of my undergradutate education.

18) I started out at Syracuse University. It was too damn cold up there ;)

19) My personal vision is not to remain a marketer for the rest of my life. Yeah, not at all.

20) I spent my childhood summers alternating between Provence, France and the Jersey Shore.

21) My great, great grand uncle started the Jewish Anti Defamation League.

22) Geek? Did you say geek? Yeah, that’s me. Give me a new tech toy every week, please!

23) My idea of a good time is quiet time.

24) I hate the iPhone, but like the iTouch.

25) I prefer mountains over oceans…

And to pass this fine meme along, I’m tagging Amber Naslund (heh, payback!), Xiobhan (beware of what you ask for), and Christopher.

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Dear Personal Branders: Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously!

Posted on: December 24th, 2008 by Geoff Livingston No Comments

LOL, this was fun to make. Merry Christmas!

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What’s It Like to Ride

Posted on: September 10th, 2008 by Geoff Livingston 2 Comments

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There’s something deeply primitive and physically fulfilling about riding a motorcycle. Whether its the shots of adrenaline racing up your spine as you corner, the shudder the bike makes — shaking through your thighs as you open the throttle — followed by the exhilarating thrill as she leaps forward screaming down the road, or the firm pressure of the wind on your chest and shoulders as you race down the road at 70 mph, it just gets me.

There’s an excitement, a freedom, a thrill to life that I can only get on a motorcycle. I’ve won tense games, have had incredible moments of intimacy, felt the tired physical exhaustion from a thorough methodical work-out. Nothing delivers every time like a great motorcycle on the open road.

After a three year absence, it feels like I got my mojo back. But this time, it’s a little different. Why? Well I opted for a Ducati (full photo set here), the Italian motorcycle company, known for its racing bikes. While my GT1000 is not a true road bike, instead more of a retro standard, it’s all Ducati.

Here’s a description of what it’s like to ride (yeah, I really am wearing my motorcycle glasses):

Compared to my prior motorcycles – Honda Shadow, Harley Road King, and Yamaha V-Star Classic – the Ducati is just a superior machine. It’s a muscle bike, yet precision tuned, so that when you shift your hips to hit a steep curve, the bike just naturally swings, dropping you 30 degrees. There’s no fear. The machine clearly acts as it was designed to.

At the same time the gutural roar the engine makes is just sick. You really do feel it shutter, and leap forward, and the roar is amazing. Just a totally exhilarating experience.

The GT1000 is not unattractive either. Quite frankly, I get more head turns on this bike than even the Harley. The Ducati’s muscular, she’s fast, she’s nimble, and yeah, she’s red hot Italian. I highly recommend it, not for the new rider, but for someone who can appreciate a truly great motorcycle.

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Gerry Connolly Should Not Hold Office

Posted on: September 9th, 2008 by Geoff Livingston 2 Comments

Fairfax County Chairman Gerald Connolly should not be elected to Congress. He is the Democratic Candidate for VA- District 11. That’s coming from a fellow Democrat.

His handling of the Huntington Flood situation disgusts me. My once-gentrifying neighborhood has suffered because government bodies moved Cameron Run and never maintained it. After the cataclysmic flood of 2006, the neighborhood has never been the same. Now we are plagued with wave after wave of evacuations and possible floods with every major storm.

Government’s answer? It’s not my fault. I don’t pretend to know the legal aspects of this case, and who or why some organization is to blame. That’s why we the residents have a legal team behind us.

And thank God we do. Because it’s obvious that Fairfax County Chairman Connolly won’t act on our behalf, instead trying to weasel blame on other parties. Regardless of who is actually to blame legally, Connolly needs to act like a real leader and stand up for this district. Instead he backs down like an atypical political scum bag.

This is not Congressional material. And it’s not the first time Connolly’s shady character has come to the fore. He has a questionable job at SAIC, which makes his current political position seem like a conflict of interest to me.

No thank you. I am voting for Keith Fimian.

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