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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, 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, social media, work

  Two weeks late: Generation Gap and Technology

  09.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yeah, I’m two weeks late on this, but I wanted to let you know that I joined Leslie Poston, Jonathan Yarmis, and several others for the “Topics on Fire: Generation Gap and Technology” podcast. In it we discussed, well technology and how different generations are dealing with it, and each other. Have a listen, and [...]

• Sarah Lacy, social media

  Sarah Lacy UGBT: Boston

  08.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s official: Sarah Lacy’s User Generated Book Tour is happening on Monday, September 15.
  At the event, Sarah will be signing copies of her new book, “Once You’re Lucky; Twice You’re Good”. The event will be held in the downstairs lounge of the Good Life Bar at 28 Kingston St from 6:00 pm on.
  The event is [...]

• Sarah Lacy, social media

  Coming to Boston: Sarah Lacy

  08.17.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Sarah Lacy, Silcon Valley tech journalist, biweekly columnist for Businessweek, host of Yahoo!’s Tech Ticker, and now author of “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0″, is coming to Boston to give the keynote at the Taleo Worldwide Conference.
  I have teamed up with Rebecca Corliss [...]

• 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.

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