Ever notice that the more interested you are in a subject and the busier you are, the faster time flies? Well, that would explain how I arrived at March 3rd while feeling like it should be January 15th. Here’s a brief recap of all the great things that happened, in addition to client work (which [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Community'
Zoom! There Goes February
March 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments · Community, Event, Non-Profit, Personal, Social Media, Video
Tags: 12seconds·Amber Nasland·Angela Misri·charity: water·Chris Brogan·Colin Carmichael·Dave Delaney·Dave Fleet·Jeremy Wright·Laura Fitton·Mark Goren·Merlene Paynter·Montrealers·pistachio·Planting Seeds·PodCamp Toronto·Randy Matheson·Seesmic·social media conference·Tracy Apps·Twestival·Twestival Montreal·Twitter
Twestival Tonight!
February 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Community, Event, Non-Profit, Uncategorized
For the last several weeks, I’ve been working with a stellar team of volunteers to pull together Twestival Montreal. Twestival was started by fellow Canadian (now living in London) Amanda Rose as a global effort to raise money for charity: water. The cause is simple, raise money to fund clean water projects around the world. [...]
HoHoTO: “The Party That Twitter Built” Raises $25,000 for Food Bank
January 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Community, Event, Non-Profit, Social Media
(Originally published on TouchBase, January 7, 2009.) Working from inspiration for a shared tech holiday party in Montreal, the Toronto technology, marketing and PR community used Twitter to build momentum for their landmark HoHoTO event. From the first tweets on November 27th to the event on December 15th, Twitter was used to build consensus, assemble [...]
Tags: charity·food bank·fundraising·hohoto·pistachio·Toronto·touchbase·Twitter
Community Divas Podcast
October 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Community, Video
Earlier this month, after the Toronto Tweetup, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby for their Community Divas podcast. They asked me about video conversation networks and how they can be used to build community. We talked about Seesmic, 12seconds, Phreadz, Utterli and YouTube and some of the features [...]
Tags: 12seconds·Community Divas·Phreadz·podcast·Seesmic·Utterli·YouTube
The Humanity of YouTube
October 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Community, Video
In anthropology, the study of humanity has come to rest on YouTube. Dr. Michael Wesch of Kansas State University and his Digital Ethnography working group have been studying the YouTube phenomenom and it’s impact. They’ve reached some profound conclusions. After introducing the first viral video, Numa Numa, Dr. Wesch commented on the more than 58,000 [...]
Tags: anthropology·identity·viral·YouTube
