Monday, June 11, 2012
Fatal shooting at pool party stuns the Auburn community – USATODAY.com - Among the dead are two members of the university's 2010 national championship football team. Police were searching for Desmonte Leonard, 22, of Montgomery. Police Chief Tommy Dawson said Leonard shot six people, three fatally, during a fight at a pool party Saturday. He faces three counts of capital murder. Killed were former Auburn football players Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips, and Auburn resident Demario Pitts.
The Modern Executives Essential Social Media Toolkit Plus [INFOGRAPHIC] - JeffBullas.com - Hate it or love it, you are an online brand whether you like it or not. Sometimes those results on page one of a Google search will produce what other people are saying about you on their blogs or Facebook pages. In other words if you are not actively participating in your own on-line PR then you have handed over your public relations to other people by default. Social media provides the means to take control of your own brand and ensure people see you how you want them to see you. So what are the essential social media tools that a 21st century executive and professional should have in his toolkit. - There is no excuse not to have your own professional blog whether it is branded with your own name or a name that is relevant to your industry. Easy to use blogging platforms such as Blogger.com or Tumblr.com can have you up and running in minutes.
Bubba Watson Deals With His Sudden Fame - NYTimes.com - Karen Crouse - On a PGA Tour overrun by perfect swings and political correctness, Bubba Watson stands out like a cowboy on Wall Street. He is outspoken, with an unconventional swing and an imagination with no out-of-bounds markers.
Poppy Chic - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - I FLEW down to Houston last year to have lunch with George Herbert Walker Bush. “Did you come because you think I’m going to die?” he asked me with a wry smile. Not at all, I replied, adding that I wanted to join him on his planned sky-diving excursion when he turned 90. (It sends the world a message, as he puts it, that “old guys can still do exciting things.”)
Manhunt Launched for Auburn Shooter - The Daily Beast - Three people, including two former Auburn University football players, died after a shooting in an Auburn, Ala., apartment complex late Saturday. Law enforcement put the complex in lockdown after the shooting. Sources familiar with the case told a local paper that Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips died in the shooting, and that current Auburn player Eric Mack was sent to the hospital. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted a witness who claimed to be at the party where the shooting took place and said it started as a scuffle over a girl.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Inside the $90,000-a-year gentleman's club where members 'golf naked, expose themselves and pass out on the barbeque': Top lawyer's fury at outrageous behaviour of Atlanta's most prominent citizens | Mail Online - A secretive high society gentleman's club frequented by Atlanta's most wealthy and prominent people has been thrust into the spotlight after allegations emerged of its elite members golfing naked, urinating in public and committing a host of lewd, drunken behaviors. John C. Weitnauer, a top-flight bankruptcy lawyer, wrote a scathing letter detailing the fraternity-boy antics to the president of the Piedmont Driving Club -- the invitation-only organization that has brought together Georgia's most powerful people since the Gilded Age. Dues are said to be $90,000 a year. Mr Weitnauer, who worked on both the Enron and Lehman Brothers bankruptcies, intended for his letter to be a private correspondence, demanding the club take action against the members guilty of the bad behavior.
The Modern Executives Essential Social Media Toolkit Plus [INFOGRAPHIC] - JeffBullas.com - Hate it or love it, you are an online brand whether you like it or not. Sometimes those results on page one of a Google search will produce what other people are saying about you on their blogs or Facebook pages. In other words if you are not actively participating in your own on-line PR then you have handed over your public relations to other people by default. Social media provides the means to take control of your own brand and ensure people see you how you want them to see you. So what are the essential social media tools that a 21st century executive and professional should have in his toolkit. - There is no excuse not to have your own professional blog whether it is branded with your own name or a name that is relevant to your industry. Easy to use blogging platforms such as Blogger.com or Tumblr.com can have you up and running in minutes.
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