by Gradon on July 28, 2009 · 0 comments
Over four days, the recent TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, England “explored and made visible the Substance of Things Not Seen.” At the end of the first day, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed how images — from Kim Phúc during the Vietnam War to Neda Agha-Soltan during the recent Iranian protests — unlock our collective [...]
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by Gradon on July 27, 2009 · 8 comments
in life,social media
(This post actually comes from me, Meg Fowler. You can find everything else I yammer about here and here.) “Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.” — Paul Chatfield It’s no secret that social media runs on the twin engines of boredom and scandal… and [...]
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by Gradon on July 25, 2009 · 0 comments
City Harvest, the New York-based food rescue organization — and beneficiary of the Social Media for Social Change NYC fund raiser this past spring– has a Facebook Cause. With just over 1,000 members and $1,669 raised, it’s not the worst-performing Cause around, nor is it the best. When Facebook recently made changes to the Fan [...]
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by Gradon on July 24, 2009 · 6 comments
I’m sitting at JFK airport. My flight from Richmond was delayed for some mechanical reason, so we departed just late enough for me to miss my connecting flight. While I wait for the next flight to Boston, I’m taking advantage of the free wifi JetBlue offers throughout the terminal. I spent the last day and [...]
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by Gradon on July 14, 2009 · 27 comments
Quiet Company – “It’s Better To Spend Money Like There’s No Tomorrow Than Spend Tonight Like There’s No Money” I recently became aware of TheSixtyOne, an online music community where “artists upload their work for review, but, rather than allow a stuffy suit in a boardroom to decide what’s good, thousands of listeners do.” Since [...]
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Gradon Tripp is a Boston-based social media, technology and design aficionado that fully immerses himself in the world of social media. He is the founder of DesignBoston.org, the largest Boston-based architecture and design blog, and co-founder of Social Media for Social Change, an organization that helps non-profits use the tools of social media to further their causes.
Gradon works as a freelance social media and content strategist. He blogs here about social media and marketing for a variety of industries, and the thoughts here are his (not those of his employers, clients, friends or family).
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