by Gradon on January 20, 2010 · 16 comments
If there’s any single benefit of what Chris Brogan offers to the social media world at large (and let me say, there are many), it’s that he makes you think. Recently, after prodding from Robert Scoble, Chris created a second Twitter account. The guise of @broganmedia (that’s the first tweet, above) was to share a “more pure [...]
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by Gradon on August 1, 2009 · 0 comments
For a little over a year now, Matt Knell, Meg Fowler and I — as Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) — have been using the social web to raise awareness (and funds!) for charities. In that time, we’ve noticed a sharp increase in social media being used for good causes, whether by organizations or [...]
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Summer’s typically the time when things slow down. People go on vacation. The sunshine, the heat, it all makes things go at a more relaxed pace. Not for me. At least not this year. Next month, I’ll be headed down to Richmond, VA for two events. I met Doug Meacham, the co-founder of the Richmond, [...]
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Allison Fine, social change blogger and author of “Momentum: Igniting social change in the connected age”, recently wrote a post criticizing Mashable’s Summer of Social Good (full disclosure: SM4SC is a partner in the SoSG) for its claim to be “the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power [...]
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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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