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 the [...]
Entries from September 2008
Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter Test
September 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Community · Social Media
Putting Your Passion to Work
September 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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 woman [...]
Tags: Communication · Social Media
Twittering Milestones and Couche-Tard
September 23rd, 2008 · 18 Comments
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. Instead, [...]
Tags: Community · Event · Social Media
PodCamp Montreal Extravaganza!
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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 2.1), [...]
Tags: Event · Social Media · Technology
Founders of PodCamp See a Bright Future
September 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
(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 for [...]
Tags: Event · Social Media
PodCamp Comes to Montreal
September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This post originally appeared on One Degree, a leading Canadian online publication about digital marketing, online communications and social media.
This weekend, new media comes to town with the first PodCamp Montreal. For the uninitiated, PodCamp is an “unconference” where people come together to share knowledge and engage in open discussion about video and audio podcasting, [...]
Tags: Event · Social Media
Yammer Wins TechCrunch 50 with Twitter-like Enterprise Service
September 11th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Winning $50,000 at TechCrunch 50 last night, Yammer did what Twitter hasn’t been able to: create a simple solution for enterprise with a pre-defined business model.
Founded by David Sacks, former COO of PayPal and currently CEO of Geni.com, the management team is filled from the ranks of PayPal, eBay, eGroups and Tribe. Sacks wanted an [...]
Tags: Business · Technology
Talking About Video Microblogging
September 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s been almost a year since I first started testing video conversation networks, a.k.a. video microblogging platforms, beginning with an invite to the much-hyped Seesmic alpha, a mere 3 weeks into it’s existence. In the last 11 months I’ve been exploring the field of newcomers, including Phreadz, Utterz and 12seconds. Over the coming weeks I [...]
Tags: Event · Social Media · Video
Shhhh! Sworn to Secrecy
September 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I recently told you a little about an innovative start-up named Akoha, that founder Austin Hill described in an interview with Tara Hunt as:
“…based off Aboriginal gift economies and it’s a pay it forward giving game whereby you earn points based off how well you give to other people. So aside from the functional, this [...]
Tags: Social Media · Video
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