Slides from my Third Tuesday Vancouver talk: Did you get the message?

Last night was another great Third Tuesday Vancouver and I’d like to thank everyone for coming out (it was stiff competition with the Canucks playing I know). I would especially like to thank Raul for live blogging the session:[From Hummingbird604.com » Blog Archive » Third Tuesday Liveblog - Tris Hussey on the Paradox of Communications in the 21st Century]It’s a good thing that Raul takes such great live blogging notes, because... [Read More...]

How to Profit from Social Media Marketing panel tonight–I’ll be blogging it

It’s great when you see that one of your professional passions starts gaining ground in the mainstream. It is so much easier to explain what you do when most folks have heard of it. Yes, I know that people say when a technology gets popular, it’s ruined, but let’s hope this isn’t going to be the case. Social Media is really starting to come into its own now as a marketing tool. Yes, I know business blogging has been around... [Read More...]

Gathering info from the crowd in the cloud-is this collectively smart?

It seems that every couple weeks there is a new service, site, or app whose goal is to help me gather information and then share it with various groups/tribes of people I know. This has gotten me to wondering if we’re helping ourselves find info or just building stronger walls around our electronic tribes. In the past few weeks I’ve been introduced to Twine, Microplaza, the new PostRank beta, MyAlltop, and Glue all of which want me to... [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...]

It’s video that keeps them there–Bradley talks to CBC about Obamamania

Hey, was there anything interesting going on in the States this week? I’m kidding of course because the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the US was not only huge news in the States, but around the world as well. Social media played a pivotal role in Obama’s election, so it isn’t surprising that social media, and online video especially, would also figure prominently in his inauguration as well. The CBC gave... [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...]