This little video (scroll down in his blog, The Swinging Gate) got a lot of hits and brought attention to his blog which got him hired by a company (sbnation) that got him press passes and a gig reporting on the Redskins in addition to other sports.
He visited me at school yesterday and is as surprised by this as anyone. He is a computer software engineer and currently going to grad school at Hopkins. He was a slacker television student in the sense that he worked on his academic classes and watched the hilarity of other's work.He remembers only making one video his senior year. He remembered enough about IMovie to make the above spoof. This tells me that even those of you who don't look busy have a great deal of latent potential. This makes my little teacher heart flutter a little bit faster with happiness. But I digress. Now Daniel is figuring out how to do audio and needs to learn Final Cut, etc.
What kind of blog would you write? Could you back it up with videos? Could you tweet six to ten times a day bringing attention and retweets (where others repost your twitter content)? Daniel says people like attitude, the use of tone that feels like a personal conversation, and above all, funny, funny, funny. His love of sports detail, his experience with never backing a winning team (he missed the two good football years here at Kennedy) , and timing all contribute to this crazy ride for him. He is going to pursue sports reporting seriously and is looking for a radio or television gig to supplement all of this.
Fun, right? Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dshif.
Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md
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