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 […]
Have you seen the Government 2.0 Camp Field Guide?
We had a great Government 2.0 Camp volunteers meeting this past Sunday. Everyone left with lots of motivation and excitement that yielded great tweets, blog posts and….the Government 2.0 Camp Field Guide! This video, recorded by my co-organizer, Peter Corbett, explains what an unconference is, how an unconference works and what you need to do to […]
Less Ironic
Per my post below entitled Government Irony, Transition 2009 reduced their ticket price today to $495… getting closer…. 😉
Government Irony
So, back in October 2008, I received a “save the date” e-mail from my alma mater, Georgetown University, about Transition 2009, a conference by The School of Continuing Studies that would be taking place soon after the inauguration of now President Barack Obama. I selected the “learn more” option and signed up to receive e-mail updates as more […]
Government 2.0 Camp is happening!
Per a conversation that started here on my blog, I am pleased to announce that I (in partnership with Mark Drapeau and Peter Corbett and in cooperation with Jeffrey Levy) have, indeed, decided to move forward and initiate a Government 2.0 Camp unconference. It will take place in DC, March 27-28, 2009. This is a 100% participant-planned, not-for-profit event […]
