Post in Social Media Blog

http://charlottesocialnetworking49.blogspot.com/2011/10/when-twitter-accounts-are-hacked.html

2012 UNC Charlotte Homecoming

Everyone reading this blog probably understands by now that I am a very school spirited person. I try to advocate for UNC Charlotte as much as possible. I love my Niners to death and attend as many sporting events as my schedule allows. I try my best to bring this institution to its fullest potential (which it is not at yet). 




Just this past week I helped to start a student organization called Niner Traditions. Niner Traditions ultimate aim is create new traditions and revitalize old ones through the cooperation of a wide variety of other student orgs. We have plenty of ideas in NT, and can create lasting partnerships. If you are interested, please contact me at mmurrow1@gmail.com.




Because I want to be a better advocate for this institution, I am announcing that I will be running for Homecoming King in February of 2012. 




Thanks and Go Niners! 
-Matt

Life Happens. Get a Twitter.

Here is a post I made in a group project blog.

http://charlottesocialnetworking49.blogspot.com/2011/10/life-happens-get-twitter.html

Community Day

Today our SIFE team participated in Community Day at the new Uptown Center City Building that will house the MBA and Urban Design programs at UNC Charlotte. We had an excellent turnout on our end with 18 people that showed up. We actually had more people at some times than things to do.

Overall, the day was pretty fun. I'm not very good at face painting or putting fake tattoos on children so I basically took pictures all day. Getting to know a lot of our newer members was pretty cool today. The future of our team is really bright and they motivate me with their enthusiasm.

I might be mentioned in the Niner Times on Tuesday as I was interviewed briefly by Ciera from the paper.

Here are some of the more interesting photos from earlier today:

Tie Tuesdays Press Release

In the light of recent demand, Matt Murrow will be participating in Tie Tuesdays beginning August 23rd. This will push his personal brand by wearing all black with brightly colored ties. Green, white and Gold will have special emphasis. 


There are two main reasons for participating in Tie Tuesdays:
1.) Matt teaches his peer mentoring class on Tuesdays.
2.) Matt has weekly SIFE meetings on Tuesdays at 5:00pm. 



Matt Murrow is a Junior at UNC Charlotte double majoring in Marketing and Management. He is the VP Marketing for the Students in Free Enterprise and is actively involved in a number of other student organizations. He currently holds a position as a UCOL Peer Mentor for the 2011 Fall semester in which he will teach a class along with a fellow Niner, Sekona Washington. He also holds a position as a work study student at the UNC Charlotte Graduate School. In Matt's free time he likes to (edit: there isn't much free time).    



































Yes, this was meant to be comical. 




Be sure to like the UNC Charlotte SIFE page on Facebook!

Update

Its been a while since I wrote in this so I thought I would just jot some things down.

The SIFE table at SOAR ended up getting 205 signups, which is far more than I expected. I'm hoping for a 20-30% conversion ratio which would place our freshmen recruits just from SOAR at about 40-60. These numbers might be a little overly optimistic, but we'll see.

We have a SIFE EB meeting this week. I'm excited to see what we all have been up to.

I'm taking two summer classes this session. Both are history classes. One is on Germany after Hitler and the other is on Euro history since 1660. The Germany class is much more interesting, even though both classes have the same teacher. I made As in both of my classes last semester.

I've been going to the gym and shooting hoops with Dallas a good bit. I'm getting better, although I'm no where near where most kids are my age. My shot is falling better... sometimes.. and my ball handling is slowly improving. I still look really bad in competition though.

I have a massive reading list backed up. I am way behind.

I've started watching the Jimmy Falon show and its pretty funny.

It seems like sometime over the past few months my overall attitude towards life has changed. I'm amazingly inspired and see the forecast as very bright. I love my life more than ever before.

I move into my new apartment in like the second week of August. I'm really excited and can't wait to put some IdeaPaint on my walls. For those of you who don't know what that is, it basically turns your wall into a whiteboard.

I'm really excited about next school year as well. Aside from all the SIFE stuff, I'm a peer mentor for a group of freshmen and I get to teach a class. I want to apply for the tour guides still but I am uncertain because of a scheduling conflict. I dropped one of my classes to try and have an easier semester. Hopefully the adjustment isn't too much, but I'm preparing for it.

Summer Reading List

In Progress:
The Social Animal by David Brooks

Yet to Start:
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Marketing War-Fare by Al Reis and Jack Trout
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman 
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
The First Billion is the Hardest by T. Boone Pickens

Completed:

The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss 

The Truth about Search Engine Optimization by Rebecca Lieb
Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell