If you listen to the podcast Topics on Fire or know about my proposed SXSW panel on saving the world with social media, you know that using technology and our networks for real world change is near and dear to my heart. To that end, when Adam Ostrow of Mashable and Readburner mentioned a social [...]

There are days when I wake up to the same blase stream of information filling my feed reader, and then there are days when I am genuinely excited about what’s flowing through the web of tubes known as the internet.  Yesterday was one of the latter category.   You see, along with the many various [...]

I am a relatively fresh face in social media, and I have big ideas. I’ve been writing about social media behind the scenes for years at blogs like Profy and others, but only recently did I decide to pair up with Triston McIntyre and turn the advice I’ve been giving for so long into a [...]

This is my constant refrain when asked about social media “giants” and “rival” companies online. There are no rivals in social media. The thing that makes social media work so well, and that has me so enthusiastic about its potential for creating a fully connected World 2.0 techno-utopia one day, is that it is built [...]

I attended Boston Media Makers this morning on behalf of Uptown Uncorked. It was a fantastic meeting, with lots of great discussion about filtering the noise, delivering content, reaching an audience, getting the attention of Generations X and Y, social media job hunting tactics, using Seesmic as an alternative to Twitter, and more. There were [...]

Part of what makes the Internet fun is the ability to band together with other people who share your interests in large scale group events. Since the advent of Web 2.0, that has become even easier. You may have heard of the seemingly crazy NaNoWriMo, where people sign on to write a novel in the [...]