Global Morning News – August 21, 2009
Here are some links to information Bradley Shende spoke about on Global Morning News August 21, 2009. Some great items for back-to-school that come in under $100 include (From BestBuy):Sony wireless headphone for the transit rider ($99.00)Sony’s Walkman Wearable MP3 player fuses headphones with a 2GB MP3 player into one sleek device that’s perfect for cruisin’ on the bus or skytrain or riding the new Canada Line. Its lightweight... [Read More...]
Bradley on Global Morning News
Global July 31 Summer is often about fixing things around the apartment, house, or cottage. Here are some great sites to help you learn how to do just about anything. http://www.wikihow.com/Cool-Yourself-Without-Air-Conditioning You can participate and actually edit the Wiki entries “One tried and true method is to wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water, and then keep those spots cool by holding an ice cube wrapped in a face... [Read More...]
Google’s Wave – Microsoft’s Bing – big players, big changes
We’ve started doing a lot more in-house Voice-Over work at Media2o Productions (M2O). It’s really fun stuff. It’s also interesting that just as my recorded voice never sounds the same to me as it does to others – this seems to hold true for others doing VO work too. But, on to the big news – Google announced their latest innovation – Wave – today. Techcrunch has a great write up on it. If it’s half as... [Read More...]
Chief Social Media Officer? Sounds as good as a Chief Blogging Officer
One of the first signs that a new online activity is becoming accepted within business circles is when people start wondering about a “Chief [online medium du jour] Officer”. I’m not terribly surprised that now there is talk of the Chief Social Media Officer (CSMO)–Yes, It’s Time for a Chief Social Media Officer | Mark Evans – Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer? | Social Business | ZDNet.com. I’m going... [Read More...]
Live Blog: Profit from Social Media Marketing Roundtable
The panel will get going about 6:30 (watch for my tweet)… Profit from Social Media Marketing Tweet This Post Read More →
When someone throws the baby out with the bathwater, catch the baby–the birth of M2O
Bradley “aka Fearless Leader, Grand Poobah, Ye who signs the cheques” Shende was profiled in the current issue of Business in Vancouver on how Media2o Productions (aka M2O) came to be. As you all know I joined M2O list past november, well into M2O’s first year. I’ve heard this story several times, but you know I really like telling it. Why? Because it shows both what kind of man Bradley is and his vision of the online world... [Read More...]
Smart journalists tweet while newspapers wrap fish
It’s no secret that I’m into Twitter. It’s also no secret that I strive to think unconventionally about journalism, publishing, and new media. So I had to smile about this post from the editor in chief of Reuters on scooping “himself” (Reuters the wire service) on Twitter:While it is vital to read the five as a whole, I take the fifth (”That no effort shall be spared to expand, develop and adapt the news and other... [Read More...]
Joey DeVilla on Microsoft’s Evangelism and Innovation
I’ve known Joey DeVilla almost as long as I’ve been blogging. Back then it was at Tucows, but we finally had a chance to work together at b5media where I always knew Joey as a Mac-Linux guy. Yeah he did Windows, but it always seemed begrudgingly. I don’t think I was the only one who was surprised when Joey took a job at Microsoft after b5. I finally had a chance to catch up with Joey at the Vancouver Bloggers Meetup.and chat about... [Read More...]
BCIT and Media2o Launch the Virtual Business Hub this morning
In about an hour something really cool is going to happen here at the Media2o studios. No, it’s not that we’ll all be into work at 7:30, it’s the launch of BCIT’s Virtual Business Hub learning program. What BCIT and Media2o–we’re the technology partners with BCIT–are aiming to do is to bring the energy of breakfast meetings, lunch and learns, and other business-technology seminars to all of BC, not just Victoria... [Read More...]
DiSO Dashboard: Marc Canter’s challenge to us to pull it together
Love him or hate him, when Marc Canter says something you should listen. Granted sometimes he’s saying his piece with such volume you can’t help but to hear him, but I mean you need to listen to him. This is one of those times. Marshall wrote up on RWW about Marc’s new big idea a centralized social media-web 2.0 dashboard called DiSO. Marshall goes into more depth than Marc does in his own post on DiSO, but Marc’s slides do... [Read More...]