I wanted to share with you the content from a terrific and inspiring email that I (& the rest of his distro list) received from Jeff Pulver just before Thanksgiving. This is a transcription from an interview he did during the #140conf Tel Aviv on November 2nd. I am posting this because I simply could not […]
Hashtags: bridges between communities
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Peter Kim Calls it Social Business
Per my last blog post, I’ve been grappling with the contradiction between “marketing” and “social media.” Though usually viewed as a progression from old to new, the terms more often seem like opposites to me. Today I read and commented on Peter Kim’s blog post, “It’s Time to Transform.” I couldn’t agree more with his assessment […]
Becoming a Truth Organization
What we refer to as “social media” really has very little to do with media. Media –from cameras to demographics–is a set of filters. Filters obscure the truth by focus as well as by omission. Social media strips away the filters upon which content shops–news organizations, marketing consultancies, ad agencies and PR firms–have relied over the past century, and […]
