Advocacy and You: LinkedIn & Google+
We have looked at how to build your advocacy efforts into your facebook and twitter accounts. This week we will look at how to amp up your LinkedIn profile and Google+ account. For LinkedIn: Connect: Build your network and make sure it includes people outside of the music therapy or creative arts therapies. People who do what you do, know the importance of it. In order to be an effective advocate, you need to teach as many people as you can. Let your profile speak: Put as much information as you can on your...
Read MoreAdvocacy and You: Facebook
So how do you become an effective advocate? There are so many ways you can fight for the things you believe in and with the power of social media you can expand your efforts. In honor of #MTADVOCACY month, we want to show you how you can expand your advocacy efforts with your social media profiles to achieve your goals. Facebook is a great tool for advocacy. With over 800 million active users, you have an attentive audience to preach to. Here are some ways you can expand your advocacy efforts with...
Read MoreNetworking 101: Everything I wish I knew before I got my degree
One question I never thought to ask myself when I was going through my undergraduate degree was “Should I network outside of “_Fill_in_your_location_here”". Now that I am merely days away from putting my stuff into a volkswagen beetle and driving from Buffalo, NY to San Diego, Ca I am really wishing I would have networked a little more on a national level. So I urge all of those individuals out there to get involved with your professional organization not only on a local level but on the national...
Read MoreThe Last Five Years
The other day I got home from the office and opened my mail to find a letter from my high school. My life has been in fast forward mode lately, and I haven’t spent much time thinking about the past, so when I received a letter telling me that my 5-year reunion is coming up in June I couldn’t believe it. I started to think that in five years I started college, helped start an IMC Firm, graduated college, and have been working for two years, among the other events in my life. That wasn’t what...
Read MoreTechnology and Music: Part 2: Social Media and You
Now that you have your brand figured out, it is time to start putting your brand to work for you. You have to live into your brand. Every time you meet with a new client or a potential employer, make sure you take some time to reflect on that meeting after it happens. Did your Brand Essence come into play during that meeting? Do you think that Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So walked out of there thinking you were “fill in the blanks?”. When you are giving your therapy session, did you keep your brand promise to...
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