Archive for the ‘ social media ’ Category
by Walt Carvalho Your online presence is becoming an issue that is now determining your employment opportunities. It is one of the many ways in which things are changing around us. Human Resource personnel are now searching online to discover talent from such places as Linkedin, Razume, VisualCV, Emurse and Xing to name a few. If you [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho I had the opportunity to participate in a wonderful experience last Thursday night. There were eight of us that got together as the inaugural group of the first meeting of Reaching Full Potential. While being the speaker at our first meeting I decided to touch on a few previous articles, which I had written [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho We started a meet-up group on June 25th, 2010 called “Reaching Full Potential”. It is a continuation of our website; theCarvalhoGroup.com, where we discuss the impact social media is having in our lives, as well as the potential it provides. There are many social media sites which talk strictly about social media tools. I [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho Graeme McDowell won the 2010 US Open, while wearing Callaway Golf’s latest headwear design. Brand placement is powerful and many times it happens without the viewer even realizing its existence. It’s quite simple. Callaway Golf decides on an identifier, such as Graeme McDowell, who they pay to wear their apparel and headwear as well [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho As things evolve so quickly, our daily habits are transforming new technologies and rearranging the potential that each of those technologies hold. Our increased mobility as social media users have extended way beyond SMS (phone texting). We now leave wall posts and images on facebook as well as tweets from visits to the park. [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho Graduation ceremonies seem to all share common traits. There are a lot of people in the audience that may say that graduation ceremonies almost always take way too long. Well, I guess if you spent three or four hours sitting on a hard seat while staring into the sun on a hot June day [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho I’ve been noticing some recent movement in television writing and direction. There appears to be a move in the works to minimize the relevance of social media in our lives. Fear has been a guaranteed trigger point for the networks to build strategies around. Producing fear in the viewer is obviously an attention [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho Excitement usually grows as summer nears. We’ve been sharing ideas dealing with social media, positive mindsets, creativity and inspiration with you. Now, we are introducing something new on theCarvalhoGroup.com. website leading into the summer. We are very enthusiastic about our plans to bring some real life stories to you. It’s about people, who even in rough [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho Impressions made in the early life of a piece of video content, such as apple’s depiction of the 1984 commercial takeoff, having a girl rush the audience in defiance throwing a hammer at a hypnotic dictatorial speaker within a black and white screen image. The impact left by such depictions has had [ READ MORE ]
by Walt Carvalho It appears that commercials, television spots and movie trailers are finding tremendous growth, not only on television and movie screens but instead as their views drastically multiply through its positioning on the Internet. [ READ MORE ]