Catch us at Personal Democracy Forum #pdf2009

If you will be in NYC Monday and Tuesday for the Personal Democracy Forum, be sure to stop by our lounge in the sponsor area and to check out our panel at 3:45 on Tuesday, “Beyond BarackObama.com: How Social Action Networks Are Changing Politics.”  If you aren’t able to attend,...

Announcing Twitterslurp for Personal Democracy Forum (#pdf09)

Anyone that has been to a tech conference the last few years knows that there is a huge amount of back channel communication that occurs on Twitter.   People provide live coverage of the talks they go to.  People organize dinner plans.  People stage revolts against panelists.  The conversation is constant,...

Fixoutlook.org is Great

I’ve been doing web work for over ten years, so I’m sort of jaded about new websites and online initiatives.  I’m not easily impressed.  It gives me great joy when I run into something truly new and novel, as I did last night.

I happened on the website www.fixoutlook.org,...

Demystifying the Social Medianess – Unselfish Communication

In my last post we talked about this thing called Social Medianess and the responsibility those of us in the digital landscape carry to help others understand how it works.

Today I’d like to dive into the essence of social media and clarify exactly what that is.

People equate technology with social media....

The Twitter+Facebook Traffic Referral Explosion

I wrote a post a few weeks back that looked at how Facebook and Twitter compare as traffic drivers.  What I didn’t mention in my post is that over the course of the last six to twelve months the amount of traffic driven by both sites has grown exponentially. 

Last week at the 140 Conference,...