My wife and I volunteer for FlourishConf, UIC’s annual conference on open source software and innovation. The fourth annual session wrapped up earlier this month.
Among the highlights for me were Robert Landley’s opener “The Prototype and the Fan Club”, Ross Boucher’s discussion of 280 North the Cappuccino developer environment, and
Jessi’s Friday Five about words that need to be removed from the social media lexicon had me thinking about one other term I think we need to press reset on: “social media” itself. It’s not that I’m against socially-constructed forms of communication – trust me, I love them – it’s that, in true Inigo Montoya fashion, “I do not think it means…
Earlier this month, international news agency Reuters announced new guidelines for how its reporters should behave on social networks. This sparked a great conversation about how the media, and for our value, health media, is changing its game in the digital era. This week’s edition of HDCU takes a look at a few traditional media mainstays in the health space and how they have jumped into online engagement or conversation.
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The future of newspapers may well be in Colorado, once home to the late “gonzo journalism” provocateur Hunter S. Thomson and today home to no less that 12 free dailies. All of these papers are very local, and perhaps more importantly, successful. This trend is even more interesting in light of tough times at the “real” state papers like the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post.
This isn’t a Colorado-only phenomenon. Palo Alto, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley and arguably Ground…
Last week Edelman hosted a strategy session with our clients and partners at eBay and I had the opportunity to pull two of eBay’s social media leads aside for a quick chat. Richard Brewer-Hay has been with the company just over two years and has already brought a face to many of eBay’s social initiatives through his eBay Ink blog as well as his consistent engagement with eBay users in forums…
There are many college instructors and professors who have brought social media principles and techniques into the classroom, though few have integrated it as early or as thoroughly as Robert French of Auburn University (@rdfrench on Twitter).
I spoke with him about entry-level jobs in PR, internships, and the experience of running PROpenMic, a…
A previous Quick Hits cited the slow, but steady increase in applications creating for the Android operating system. Zillow followed suit with an application that includes features not available with the iPhone version. Google Street view and voice recognition allows home seekers more tools when looking for the way a flower bed looks, to reciting the name of the neighborhood they want to search.
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About a month ago, I attended a brainstorm for a client looking for some new social media tactics to promote themselves. After some dialogue, I came to realize they were looking for “cheap” marketing ideas and saw social media tactics as a “tightwad marketer’s nirvana”. Unfortunately, the concept of Social Media = Fast & Cheap is spreading, doing harm to design and creativity on the web in general.
When your client challenges you to create an…
News within the digital space breaks in real-time — the speed of the Internet, as it were, or at least the speed of the closest broadband network. Today’s Friday Five is dedicated to five sources for the latest and greatest in news. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good start and you can find more sources as you study what these five sites read and link to in return. It’s hard to say whether a hot new smartphone app or a POV on the impact of new government regulations will be most relevant to a company at any given hour, but these five spots will make sure…
Last night I attended a birthday party for Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service that has had 2.4 million check-ins and has added 90,000 new users in the past week.
More than 100 Foursquare members gathered at Lincoln Station to sing “Happy Birthday” to the Foursquare team via Skype. Some people had RSVPed for the event on the
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