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Entries from September 30th, 2008

Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter Test

September 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Community, Social Media

Crowdsourcing is one of the best uses of Twitter. Sure, it’s easy enough to poll people with questions or to ask for information, directions and recommendatons, but it’s another thing entirely when you’re in a pickle and need someone local to physically come to your aid. Last night at about 10:30 pm, as I watched [...]

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Putting Your Passion to Work

September 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Communication, Social Media

I wrote this as a guest post for Valeria Maltoni’s excellent blog, The Conversation Agent. It appeared there on September 11, 2008. Marie* leaned in close and whispered, “I have a secret. I’m leading a double life.” I was on the train, on my way to PodCamp Toronto and early into the trip, the young [...]

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Twittering Milestones and Couche-Tard

September 23rd, 2008 · 20 Comments · Community, Event, Social Media

Today I reached a personal Twitter milestone with my 10,000th tweet. It seemed appropriate that it should come after my most intense week of social media mayhem since SXSWi last March. Like many who attended PodCamp Montreal this past weekend, I am experiencing a bit of a social media hangover. For me, it’s not alcohol-induced. [...]

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PodCamp Montreal Extravaganza!

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Event, Social Media, Technology

Immediately after speaking to about 30 people about video microblogging at the Montreal Girl Geek Dinner last  night (thanks to everyone for coming out!), I kicked off the start of my PodCamp Montreal Weekend Extravaganza a day early. It’s hard to resist when out-of-towners and fellow PodCamp Montreal presenters Dana (@wankergirl) and Nicole (@misssomething) (Relationships [...]

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Founders of PodCamp See a Bright Future

September 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Event, Social Media

(This post originally appeared on One Degree, a leading Canadian online publication about digital marketing, online communications and social media.) I don’t think when Chris Brogan and Christopher S. Penn started PodCamp Boston in September 2006 that they knew they were starting a movement. But a mere two years later, PodCamp is a worldwide phenomenon [...]

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