{"id":709,"date":"2010-05-25T23:33:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2010-05-26T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T10:24:55","slug":"how-to-be-a-media-maven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/how-to-be-a-media-maven\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a media maven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to accumulate influence? Here\u2019s the really, really cool thing about it: all you have to do is really pay a lot of attention to others. Boom. There you go. That\u2019s it. When that attention comes from a heart overflowing with a genuine interest and care for others, you\u2019re well on your way to becoming a media maven. To give you a solid role model to watch\/study, here\u2019s an interview with the Boston Media Maven, CC Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a long interview and it showcases my still-developing audio-editing skills (or lack thereof), so there are a couple of times where I cut out stuff I didn\u2019t mean to. Still, there\u2019s plenty of gold in CC\u2019s conversation. Love his philosophy, \u201cNow there are no boundaries on who you can help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/treypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4308185462_968ab0ba6d_b-239x300.jpg\" title=\"Professor Chapman\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Boston Media Maven, CC Chapman. He tells you how easy it is to be a media maven, too. <\/figcaption><\/figure>In the interview, Professor Chapman (he\u2019s an adjunct prof), gives us some predictions about the future (\u201clocation-based everything is going to gangbusters,\u201d and \u201ctablet computing might just come of age, and not just because of Apple\u201d), and shares stories of others who shine the spotlight on others (sadly, neither one of us could come up with a politician who was good at using social media, or ANY media, to shine the spotlight on others; maybe there\u2019s one out there).<\/p>\n<p>He also gave some beautiful advice for developing an effective online presence: \u201csay \u2018hi\u2019 to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trey Pennington<\/p>\n<p>[direct link to <a href=\"http:\/\/treypennington.com\/audio\/SMP20100217CCChampman.m4a\">podcast with CC Chapman<\/a> MP3 file in case the player gives you trouble]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to accumulate influence? Here\u2019s the really, really cool thing about it: all you have to do is really pay a lot of attention to others. Boom. There you go. That\u2019s it. When that attention comes from a heart overflowing with a genuine interest and care for others, you\u2019re well on your way to becoming &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/how-to-be-a-media-maven\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,54],"tags":[125,453,452,451,454,30],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-treypennington","tag-advice","tag-how-to","tag-maven","tag-media","tag-online-presence","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}