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- @JoeyMcAllister Something bigger indeed. *WINK WINK* in reply to JoeyMcAllister 2 hrs ago
- Really dude? I saw you stare at the cart corral before you left your cart in the lot. It was only another 40 feet. Really? 4 hrs ago
- Took the Droid X to Verizon to gery checked out. We wiped it to be sure. Still waiting for backup assistant. Ugh. 5 hrs ago
- @megatronzinski Hey. Thanks. America. in reply to megatronzinski 19 hrs ago
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Living “off” the web – The Incursion Lifestyle
Posted on July 20, 2010 | View Comments
- I fully expect this to happen.
My Droid X is in the mail. It’s a phone that happens to do internet things in a groovy way. It can also spawn multiple copies of itself that morph into common household appliances. I made up that last part. Having a smartphone (in the Droid’s case, a superphone) will change the way that I use the internet. Here’s how I think this will happen.
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Digital Social Contract, Part 1
Posted on July 16, 2010 | View Comments
- The Internet King
A lot of writers talk the web’s effect on how we communicate and collaborate and all kinds of other things. I’m more concerned with how the web is changing society and what it means for our future togetherness and apartness. Let’s drag up the old term “social contract” and stick the word “digital” in front of it.
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7 job interview tips inspired by Twitter
Posted on July 13, 2010 | View Comments
- So…how many followers do you have?
Mark Mann over at Denvelopers asked me to construct an interesting list. At the time, I was deep inside a job search. Inspired by that process and the ways in which I’ve seen Twitter rise to prominence, this is what I came up with.
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Book review: Quick Bites by Rick Bakas
Posted on July 7, 2010 | View Comments
- This is a real picture of my face and Rick’s book
We have all seen blog posts like these:
10 Strategies to be a Better Blogger
9 Social Media Power Tips
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Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding
Posted on June 24, 2010 | View CommentsMy friends over at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs have put together a sweet project called Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding.
I got hooked up with the project at the Interfaith Youth Core‘s conference last October. I was presenting a workshop on social web tools and the interfaith movement. I met Melody Fox Ahmed, Director of Programs and Operations at the Berkley Center, and we’ve kept up correspondence since then. The report is really cool, quite in-depth, and very useful for looking at the ways in which dialogue and action will happen online.It’s also totally dope because they quoted me a few times in the report. :) Here’s a video with the undergraduate researchers talking about the highlights. I recommend checking out Bridging Babel – it’s worth the read.Read more on Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding…
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The problem with “The Problem With Generation Y and Millennials” – A response to Jason Calacanis
Posted on April 17, 2010 | View CommentsI told myself a while ago that I would pay close attention to what Jason Calacanis said; the guy’s as close to tech as you can get and he’s got his brain in lots of different pies. Now, unfortunately, he occasionally offers opinion in some of the pies that he has no business talking about. By “occasionally”, of course, I mean “always”. That’s not a reason to stop reading him, mind you. The last major example, and there are many, was his rant (read: hissy fit) about the “Middle East” and other geopolitical realities that he understands merely by dint of being the Tesla Roadster’s most high-profile cheerleader.
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Playing with the big dogs, on Twitter and otherwise
Posted on December 18, 2009 | View Comments
- Mark and I kicking it in Kibera with some friends
There is no end to blog posts from experts declaring the need to “separate noise from signal” and “engage your community” while getting out there in social web promotion. As nonprofits, we understand this. No joke. We get it.
I spent 13 months with The 1010 Project in Denver, coordinating fundraising and our social web life. In July of 2009, I left The 1010 Project for a job with the Interfaith Youth Core and Tony Blair Faith Foundation. I now do a bit of consulting for The 1010 Project along with the former Director of Communication Mark Mann (now heading up Denvelopers), who handled all the coding and web design and SEO stuff. Since leaving, and with the benefit of distance (physical and otherwise), I have realized what we were really aiming for and accomplishing with our forays into the social web. Three milestones (we’ll use that word for now) have enabled me to take a look back and understand how we made things happen.
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What can Millennials really bring to the table?
Posted on November 9, 2009 | View Comments
emo millennial on beach
What are Millennials good for? How can we (you) use them (me)? Christina Smith from YourMembership.com, Inc. recently posted on the Nonprofit Technology Network’s blog to look into that question. It’s called “Tapping into the Strengths of a Generation – The Millennials“, and it’s a good place to start. What follows are my comments on the post, with a few tiny changes (items in bold are Christina’s quick descriptions):
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Getting your voice heard: Interfaith and social media
Posted on November 1, 2009 | View CommentsThis is the Prezi for a workshop that I presented at the 6th Interfaith Youth Core Conference “Leadership for a Religiously-Diverse World”. It went well, I think. Folks seemed genuinely interested in seeing how we can apply social media outreach and tactics to the interfaith “field”, and I had a great time presenting it, too. I have audio and video that I hope to cobble together with this Prezi at a later date. But for now:
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From: Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site
Posted on July 13, 2009 | View CommentsI especially liked #4, which is one of the things that I’m proud to have helped The 1010 Project with:
4) Make Yourself Easy to Find on the Social Web
Sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (know about the new nonprofit call to action), LinkedIn and Flickr are becoming exceedingly important to any nonprofits online presence. It’s likely your organization is already using one or more of these social networks to engage with supporters, spread your message or raise money. Chris Brogan likes to call these places “outposts”. Your main website should highlight your presence on these sites so that your readers can connect with you in social ways online – they want to get to know you and they want to see that you are doing creative things in fundraising.