Marketing Monster

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 [...]

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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 copycat [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ve come across very few people who don’t love Commoncraft videos. This week I came across Commoncraft in Plain English, a parody, done by @ZoeDisco. In her post, Zoe explains why she did it and he video has received kudos in the comments. But, most importantly, it has attracted praise from Lee LeFever himself.

Also this [...]

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