Archive for August, 2008

Can we live forever?

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Rather coincidentally I’ve run into a couple of indicators in the past week that the meme (i.e., the idea) that life might be extended indefinitely is gaining some traction. The first was an article in Wired titled “The Fight to End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding.” That leads to a series of interesting videos from the [...]

Selling My House The Social Media Way – Mix and Match

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

The beauty of Social Media is the not just making things transparent, not just letting people express themselves, it’s not just that almost everything is free (From Flickr to Twitter) it’s that Social Media begs you to experiment. Not only do a video for your product (like the video for my house) but also take [...]

Mash Ups For All

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Are you in Austin? Do you work at a non-profit?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Then you should check out the event below. I will be on a panel with some other great speakers talking about Social Media and Beating Cancer:
7th Annual Crossroads Conference
The Next Giant Leap Toward Nonprofit Excellence
Significant change for nonprofits is happening now, and more is coming around the corner. Are you ready?
Spend the day investing in [...]

Hunger Bytes – Blog to Make a Difference

Monday, August 25th, 2008

So alot of people talk about “Social Media for Social Good” but let’s actualy make something happen. Much like we did for the Central Texas Blood and Tissue Center we are having a Tweetup Food Drive for the Capital Area Food Bank. We have been lucky enough to have Tyson get into the mix. Tyson [...]

Link To Top 50 Social Media Blogs

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Courtesy of Mike Sansome over at Converstations, here’s a link to the Top 50 Social Media Blogs.

The argument continues

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

In 2.0 Attitude my theme was the clash between traditional standards for authority and “expertise” and the much broader, populaist standards for knowledge that have emerged with web 2.0 and social media.  So an article in this week’s Technology Review titled “It’s not a revolution if nobody loses” that covers some of the same ground [...]

No Country for Old Media – 5 ways newspapers botched the Web

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

This is something I talk about in a lot of my presentations. I am a firm believer in the slogan of “Be Your Own Media”. In fact I presented on this to 400+ college students just two weeks ago. This great article from Valleywag has me nodding my head in total agreement. They aren’t dead [...]

Two software programs to get : Cha Cha and Twitterberry

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

So we just lost our Social Media/Web Dev Intern Nik but before he went he shared a cool app called Cha Cha. This lets you ask questions to a real person through cell phone txting.  Simply ask a question in English and send to 242242. Then a real human being will google it and answer [...]

Social Media/Web Development Intern Needed

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Hey All,
We are looking for a new Intern for the American Cancer Society’s Austin Corporate Office. The intern will be working on a variety cutting edge projects in the online space. Everything from raising donations on Facebook to building web pages on cancer.org to helping us with our Code Against Cancer event in December.  Help [...]