Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
I had the pleasure today of attending Jeff Pulver's Social Media Jungle in Boston (ok, Waltham, MA) today. First, the format worked out really well-- a number of speakers, many volunteers, had a mere twenty minutes each to present. While that sounds like a short time to many veteran conference-goers, ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Maybe This is More Important Than Having a Blogging President: President Obama responding directly to New York Times columnist David Brooks' criticisms, in a direct, thoughtful and - most importantly- winning way. That's open two-way communications. Is the administration still at arms-length with the blogging world? Yes (see the last ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
There has been plenty of back-and-forth on both sides of opinion about the new www.skittles.com. In short, they replaced the home page with redirects to live social media sites optimized for Skittles. I don't care if they broke any unwritten social media "rules;" there are none, and the Mars company ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
As February has come to a close, I would like to update on my progress in training and fundraising for the Pan-Mass Challenge.
As for fundraising, thanks to an increasing number of you, I reached a total of $585 towards my $4,200 goal, or 14%. That's quite a ways ahead ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
A Newspaper Goes Dark, with Dignity (?): The Rocky Mountain News produced its last edition Friday, after the sudden announcement that it would do so after the Scripps company was unable to find a buyer. Is this the beginning of the real end for print newspapers? I'll defer to true ...
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