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Social Media and the Future of Business

By on April 7, 2009 in Social Media

Join us on Tuesday, April 21st at the Samsung Experience, Time Warner Center, NY for a panel disciussion on The Future of Business: Is Social Media the Answer? produced by our friend Bill Sobel for NYC Entrepreneur Week (NYC ENT). Click here for event details and registration information. We’ve got a great panel moderated by [...]

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Twitter in Your Pocket

Twitter in Your Pocket

By on April 1, 2009 in Social Media

Wired’s Danny Dumas and Steven Leckart stopped by Twitter headquarters the other day to probe the company’s new moneymaking brainchild. Or did they…? If you like this Twitter gadget I’ve got a nice bridge you’ll also be interested in…

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Still Not Getting Twitter?

Still Not Getting Twitter?

By on March 5, 2009 in Social Media

Are you still mystified by Twitter? In this video from TED, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes Twitter’s roots and reveals many of the ideas driving its growth have come from Twitter users themselves. Though Evan’s presentation isn’t the most scintillating if you listen carefully you’ll find a lot of insight into what makes a successful [...]

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Brand You According to Google

Brand You According to Google

By on February 8, 2009 in Business & Marketing, Games & Simulations, Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

Let’s face it, the ability to manage and control our personal and professional identities has taken a big hit thanks to web services like Google, MySpace, Facebook, social bookmarking and now challenges like “25 Random Things About Me” that’s been making the rounds. Depending on how you play it out it’s either the underside or [...]

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Best Twitter Mashup Yet

Best Twitter Mashup Yet

By on January 23, 2009 in Business & Marketing, Next Tech, Social Media

As Julien Sharp noted recently, “Getting followers on Twitter is relatively easy, but what is really important in making Twitter a worthwhile experience is the type of followers you get – and the type of “Twitterers” you yourself follow.” Sage advice but easier said than done… until now. WhoShouldIFollow is a Twitter mash-up that looks [...]

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Global Game Jam 2009

Global Game Jam 2009

By on January 18, 2009 in Games & Simulations, Next Tech, Social Media

Join the Global Game Jam, an intense 48-hour journey of creativity, innovation, collaboration, and experimentation. Maximize your creativity by designing games within specified constraints, in a limited period of time, and build your game dev network in the process. The event takes place simultaneously at 44 different locations in 15 countries around the world. In [...]

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My TV, My PC

By on January 12, 2009 in Business & Marketing, Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

For years I’ve been my own best Guinea pig for testing new tools, technologies, techniques… anything I could use to tell a story or that might impact my customers and audience. And because of my first career as  producer and director, web video has held special interest that way. Years ago when a defense industry [...]

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Building Your Twitter Following

Building Your Twitter Following

By on January 11, 2009 in Business & Marketing, Social Media

Julien Sharp of Stylo Creative – who is also the newest member of our professional association here at RC/A Digital Media – offers clear, step-by-step instructions for how to build your Twitter following in her post: Building Your Twitter Following: It’s All About Planning. Here’s an excerpt: Getting followers on Twitter is relatively easy, but [...]

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Reality Check

By on December 12, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Excellent interview: Guy Kawasaki tells Robert Scobel why Twitter is more important than his cell phone, rants about bailing out banks and the auto industry, differentiates the good and bad kind of asshole bosses, talks about making the competition crazy and remembers what it was like working at Apple back in the day. Oh yeah, [...]

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Christmas Comes Early for WordPress

By on December 11, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Next Tech, Social Media

While waiting for the coffee to brew this morning I glanced at Twitter and the first post on my screen read “WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” released…” (props to ijafri for being first on my radar with the news). As the song playing in an endless loop in nearly every store in New York says, “It’s starting [...]

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Wordcamp NY 2008

By on October 13, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

The inspiration for my post Burning Down the TV came from Jen Simmons presentation at Wordcamp New York last Sunday. The other speakers that day included Matt Mullenweg, co-developer of WordPress and a partner in Automatic, bloggers Aaron Brazell and Shay David, Jeremy Clarke on running a blog network, and Jen on WordPress and video. [...]

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私は日本人になっている

By on October 8, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

I’m not really turning Japanese as this post’s title* suggests, but as a blogger and a Blogfather I was fascinated to learn that according to reports last year in Technorati and The Washington Post, Japanese has become the dominant language of the blogosphere. Why Japanese? With a vast middle-class nearly everyone can afford an internet [...]

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