{"id":359,"date":"2016-04-04T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:25:20","slug":"newcomers-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2016\/04\/04\/newcomers-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomers Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be aggressive!”…Maybe easier said than done, especially for someone who’s never been in a locker room or asked a coach how they gave up six goals or had more followers than just family and friends…But to listen to Jared Carrabis<\/a>\u00a0tell it, what do you have to lose?….Carrabis and Joon Lee<\/a> have resumes that 30 something(s) would die for… And yet Lee hasn’t finished college yet and Carrabis is just two years out!….<\/p>\n

But being a “newcomer” doesn’t start after<\/em> school anymore…There’s no reason to wait, your website is your signature nowadays and it should be just as distinct…….As should your Twitter account, your Linkedin page and according to Carrabis, even your MySpace page!<\/p>\n

Colleges are supposed to be the places where students learn a craft, acquire the tools…I’m not sure it works that way anymore, not entirely…You already have a “voice”…It’s time to use it…I don’t think it’s any secret that i fell on the side of face to face reporting (as opposed to couch sitting)…I learned my craft in the locker rooms and editing rooms and always felt in order to be legitimate, i had to be there…But social media has changed everything and the public will eventually decide who succeeds and who fails…Even the athletes(and the teams) have taken to starting their own sites<\/a>…One of these days the players will start critiquing the reporters!…”Can you believe the question that clown asked?” or “”Yeah, but did you see those shoes?”<\/p>\n

I guess the point I’m trying to make is you’re already a newcomer (to world of being a digital native)…Is there any among you who hasn’t blogged or posted or commented or written for a site?…Well then, you’re a newcomer…Money isn’t going to be the deciding factor anymore…<\/p>\n

I left it up to Lee to pass along some words of wisdom to the group, some of which are older than he is; “Sometimes you can feel in over your head, not necessarily knowing which way to turn. \u00a0If you need something, ask for it.”<\/p>\n

One of the best parts of this seminar series for me, as I’ve said before, is meeting new people (with new ideas)…Chad Finn included Carrabis and Lee on his 75 Best Twitter follows in Boston Sports<\/a> and we’re lucky he did….We got interesting guests and \u00a0I, to an extent, became a “newcomer” myself….Maybe just in attitude but I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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