For nearly a week, the world’s gaze has been trained on South Africa, where the World Cup is underway. This is the first time the tournament — the most popular sporting event in the world — has been hosted on the African continent, so different cultural experiences were expected (even joyfully anticipated!) Anticipation may have [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this week, Jeff Cutler and I met with people from the Greater Boston Food Bank and brainstormed ideas to help them better use social media. It was a great conversation, and one that I have with many nonprofits that I work with. In an effort to help more organizations, I’ve listed below five quick [...]
For more than three years now, I’ve been writing about Boston-area designers, products and events on DesignBoston. Promoting great people and their work is a great passion of mine, but I feel I can do more for them (and you) by talking about the best social media tools designers – whether architects, interior, or product [...]
When’s the last time you heard a guy give his two-week notice? Over the last several months, I’ve heard countless stories of friends getting laid off. From every industry imaginable. Both of my friends that write DesignBoston with me were let go in the last few weeks (Joyce is on vacation in Aruba, so I [...]
