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May be others are or at least feel they are ...

May be my generation ("Generation X" or "Generation Golf") doesn't care about anything except themselves and doesn't even know they are ...

May be the next generation ("Generation Y") thinks they are ...

[ Direct link YouTube, via Interessante Zeiten ]

But I'm not lost!

I even think that after the next generation there will be a next generation may be like The Next Generation.

Because I think positive!

And because I think positive and others think positive there is hope.

Without hope there would be ... nothing. Are you lost? Are you ... nothing?

Or do you think? Do you think positive?

Do you think positive like Teno with its "Think Positive Charity"?

THINK! Think positive!

[ via Job & Joy ]

Im Januar fand in das Pengcamp in Mainz statt (Rückblick mit Bildern). Eine meiner drei Sessions drehte sich um Public Relations (PR) in Form eines unvorbereiteten Vortrages, der schnell in Diskussion überging. Zur Thematik "Wer macht PR?" fällt mir ein Punkt im Nachhinein besonders auf:

Eigentlich macht jeder Mitarbeiter eines Unternehmens PR. Das Mindeste ist mit seiner Frau / ihrem Mann, oder am Stammtisch oder beim Geburtstag mit der Verwandtschaft erzählt man ja über das Unternehmen. Das heißt, man bildet das Unternehmen nach außen hin ab und nimmt Impulse ins Unternehmen mit rein, die man vielleicht im Kollegenkreis dann weiterbespricht. 

Durch die ganzen Onlinemedien ist sowas natürlich viel ... hat sowas viel höhere Reichweiten und auf der anderen Seite verwischen auch die Grenzen zwischen Intern und Extern.

Alexander Boerger hat das Video auf Vimeo hochgeladen. Ich bin richtig überrascht, dass die Session so lange (fast 50 Minuten) war :-)

Pengcamp - Frank Hamm - Entwicklung der PR from pengland mainz on Vimeo.

[ Direktlink Vimeo ]

Zum Abschluss gibt es von der Fachtagung "Zukunft Online-PR" am 29.01.2009 noch das Foto-Album auf Flickr:

[ Direktlink Flickr Foto-Album (Diashow)]

On last Thursday I participated in the German conference "Zukunft Online-PR" (the future of online PR). There were PR people, Digital Natives, students, teachers from Germany and even from Austria. So there also was a lot of live twittering and blogging from the conference - all in German. I also twittered in German because of the German character of the conference and the audience (local and in the web).

But on late Thursday afternoon (CET) Roxanne asked me:

@fwhamm would it be possible 4 efficiency to let English be universal language w/o others felling dissed or English-spkrs feeling superior?

Meanwhile I have some English speaking followers and from time to time I try to twitter and not to "zwitschern" (the German expression for "to twitter") so they don't feel disturbed and they understand what I'm telling. But my English is quite rusty and this might have been a reason to zwitschern in German and not to twitter in English most of the time. Roxanne's tweet made it absolutely clear to me that I have to find a resolution for my English speaking followers. Twitter wasn't made for monologue but for dialogue and I like to communicate (even in English ). I thought about this whole language thing that is a loaded topic for many:

@fwhamm I was just thinking about the whole language thing. A loaded topic for many!

Yes, Roxanne, you're absolutely right! Especially because a lot of subjects (like a conference dealing with Public Relations) are of common interest to German and to English speaking followers as well. I thought about separate accounts for tweets in German and for tweets in English but this might confuse my followers and me as well. I suppose almost all of my followers understand English so this is it:

• I generally will twitter in English from now on even from German conferences (although the latter will be a great challenge for me).
• I will reply to German tweets in German. Don't hesitate to contact me via @fwhamm or direct message in German if you like to (Zögere nicht, mich via @fwhamm oder Direktnachricht in deutsch zu kontaktieren).
• I will left German tweets untranslated when retweeting (quoting). 

I apologize and I hope that my English speaking followers will forgive my humble English

P.S.: I will continue to blog in German except for seldom occasions like this. I guess it will be a greater challenge for my readers to read an English blog post from me than for me to write it in English ...