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  If Social Media Were a Sports Team, What Would the Lineup be?

  11.17.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  A few weeks ago I wrote about Aaron Strout moving from Boston to Auston (or #bostontoaustin, as Bryan Person tagged on Twitter).
  In that post, I compared Boston’s social media scene to a sports team, with superstars, utility players, and rookies. One thing I didn’t do was tell you where I see myself within with these [...]

• blogging

  Food Bloggers Wanted at Eat Boutique

  11.03.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Maggie Battista travels a lot. Her position as Director of Global Community Management for TripAdvisor keeps her flying to and from Europe regularly.
  Maggie likes food. She regularly tweets what she is cooking, or ordering out. Let me say, my two weeks of at-home cooking can’t compare to what Maggie prepares.

  A little over a year ago, [...]

• blogging, social media

  Are Social Networks the New Home Base for Spam?

  10.29.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you have a blog, you surely get comment spam. I get nearly as many spam comments as regular ones. Thankfully, Akismet catches them and sends me an email to decide whether they are allowed or trashed.
  The emails that come in show the URLs of the links in the comments. In a few emails this [...]

• Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media

  Help The Race to 20k

  10.28.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  Remember playing telephone as a kid? Social media can be kind of like that.
  Thomas Keown started One Home Many Hopes, a nonprofit organization that is working to improve the lives of girls in Kenya.
  “One Home Many Hopes” is a loving home for orphaned girls in Mtwapa, Kenya. It provides former street children with a nurturing [...]

• Twitter, blogging, social media, work

  On the Continuing Loss of Social Media Leadership in Boston

  10.26.08 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Last Thursday night, a bunch of us from the Boston-area social media scene got together to welcome Ken Burbary to town. That was the original plan, at least.
  A few days before the Tweetup, Aaron Strout let us know that he’s leaving Mzinga, and Boston, for a position at Powered in Austin, TX.
  So we had a [...]

• Twitter, blogging, life, social media

  Twitter Helped Me Steal Canada’s Greatest Natural Resource

  10.16.08 | Permalink | 43 Comments

  Say hi to Meg
  Meg and I should have never met.
  Meg lives in Vancouver; the farthest west I’ve ever been is Tennessee. She’s a freelance writer; I schlep to work at a pharmaceutical publishing company every day - no chance we’d ever meet at an industry conference or something like that. The likelihood we’d ever be [...]

• Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media

  Social Media Fund Raiser - Where and When!

  07.23.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  It’s been twelve days since I’ve brought up the idea of a Social Media Fund Raiser. That time’s been spent trying to figure out things like how many people will come, how long the event should be, and what is going to be served. Oh, and when it will all take place.
  I have some answers. [...]

• Twitter, blogging, social media

  There Are No Experts in Social Media

  07.23.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  This past weekend, I attended PodCamp Boston 3. This was my first PodCamp (read my guest post on MediaBullseye for a wrap up of “PodCamp Boston - The Newbie Perspective“), so there was a lot to take in.

• Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media

  Let’s Have a Social Media Fund Raiser!

  07.11.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  A couple weeks ago, someone presented the idea of a Tweetup at Radius, a high-end restaurant and lounge in Boston’s Financial District (I run the valet operations there.)
  What a great idea, I figured. If there was ever a way to draw my social media friends from New York (hello, Matt?) up to Boston, a restaurant [...]

• blogging, life, social media

  Is the “Personal Brand” a myth?

  07.08.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Recently, a well known video blogger, made famous by his use of sock puppets to try and knock a couple social media stars off their pedestals, got a job producing a video blog on a major tech news site.
  Everything I know about him I know from his site and from the various tech blogs that [...]

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