I had an interesting brief chat this morning at eDemocracyCamp with Peter Corbett. We were talking about the power of hashtags. Most people don’t yet understand that hashtags are an extremely strategic, powerful and valuable way to inform targeted communities about related concepts, events and topics. For example, if I am attending eDemocracyCamp and hear […]
The “unorganization” phenomenon
Over the past few weeks I have come across a number of projects and initiatives being led by “unorganizations” — groups of people who come together for a common cause, but who are independent agents and not a formal corporation, organization or association of any sort. The first was, of course, the recent unconference that […]
I talked about Government 2.0 Camp on Federal News Radio today
I was honored to be interviewed by Chris Dorobek on Federal News Radio this afternoon. Here’s the clip: Medication errors can happen anywhere, but you can protect yourself. There are many of legal online drugstores that will offer legitimate discounts. Certainly it isn’t all. If you’re concerned about sexual disease, you perhaps already know about sofosbuvir […]
Social Media 101 Presentation
Here is the Social Media 101 presentation that I gave this morning as part of the the Advanced Learning Institute’s Social Media for Government Social Media 101 Pre-Conference Workshop. [slideshare id=1185070&doc=socialmediaforgovernment3-23-09-090323112920-phpapp01] Ken Fischer and I then co-led the workshop and he did a great presentation on Information for the Greatest Good. I am looking forward […]
A Few Valuable Social Media & Government 2.0 Resources
I just finished up at SXSX in Austin, TX. There was so much amazing content and conversation that it was truly overwhelming. A few sessions that I found particularly noteworthy were: Charlene Li’s talk about The Future of Social Media Networks (Twitter #sxswfsn) and her assertion that social networks will be like air — everywhere and all […]
The Catch-22 of Collaboration & Social Media
I Need Social Media! Clients regularly approach MiXT Media Strategies requesting social media help: Can you help me set up a Facebook page? How do I “do” Twitter? I want to “use” bloggers to broaden the reach of my marketing campaign—where do I find them? These are the wrong questions for two reasons. First, these […]
ATK: real-world AFK (away from keyboard)
AFK (away from keyboard) is “in-world” speak for the state of your SecondLife avatar when you’re not operating him/her. I’ve also heard this state referred to as “asleep” or “latent.” I sought out this terminology a week or so ago when I noticed the opposite phenomenon. I was with a group of social media cronies at a conference […]
One point for the newspapers…maybe
I just saw a TV commercial for The New York Times “Weekender” package: Friday, Saturday & Sunday delivery of the newspaper. The commercial is full of young, hip, professional Gen Xers talking about The New York Times as “the best in journalism” and how excited they were to receive it in the morning. What I found […]
Rethinking community management
I’m at TransparencyCamp today. It’s phenomenal, exciting and overwhelming. I participated in a great session this afternoon before lunch called “Drinking from the fire hose: how is a community manager to handle citizen participation in the Web 2.0 age?’ Here are some of my thoughts inspired by this session. Social media is not about joining THE conversation, it’s […]
Which is the Cause, Which the Effect?
I’m here at the WeMedia conference today and tomorrow in Miami, FL. You can check out the Twitterfeed for #wemedia. There are great discussions going on here about the future of our country and world, communications, collaboration and media. I’ll share with you some of the concepts and thoughts here. Not the most coherent blog post […]
