Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
How to deliver a social media strategy workshop that builds capacity and finds opportunities
The Concept Jam is a workshop-based methodology for identifying an organization’s most promising social media opportunities. It’s the part of our work that we love the most, and that we think gives the greatest value to our clients. It’s also the one part of our current service line-up that we hope to do even more of in the months and years to come. So we figured we’d put our money where our mouth is by giving that away first.
How to enable sleep on your HP Mini hackintosh netbook
Because your hackintosh won’t bring you much joy if closing the lid makes your computer freeze.
12 things you don’t know about Rob Cottingham
In a few hours I’ll be thankful for a plate of turkey, stuffing and gravy. Meanwhile, there’s nothing like jamming chunks of bread into the cavity of a formerly living creature to make you appreciate what really matters in life. As I stood elbow-deep in turkey, I found myself reflecting on the person who is at the heart of most of what I have to be thankful for this year
Part 6: A checklist of steps to take before installing the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Think carefully before you hacktintosh your netbook, and make sure to do your homework.
Part 5: How to decide if you should install the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Evaluating the trade-offs involved in a hacktintosh: it’s not all about saving a few bucks on the cost of a Mac.
Remembering Michael Griesdorf
What I learned from my dear friend Michael: about love, about the world, and about having a damn good time.
Part 4: My $400 MacBook Air Light
Living with a hacktintosh: the pros and cons of my newly Macified HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, Part 3: How to migrate your current Mac setup to your new Mac netbook
You can get up and running with your hacktintosh a lot more quickly if you make smart use of Apple’s migration manager to copy data, applications and settings from your existing Mac.
Making a Mac netbook, part 2: How to install the Mac OS on a Windows or Unix netbook
A summary of the steps I followed to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on an HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, part 1: Why I Mac-ified
Why I turned my HP Mini 1000 netbook into a Mac — after months running it in Ubuntu and Windows.
The Harvard Business Review
How to deliver a social media strategy workshop that builds capacity and finds opportunities
The Concept Jam is a workshop-based methodology for identifying an organization’s most promising social media opportunities. It’s the part of our work that we love the most, and that we think gives the greatest value to our clients. It’s also the one part of our current service line-up that we hope to do even more of in the months and years to come. So we figured we’d put our money where our mouth is by giving that away first.
How to enable sleep on your HP Mini hackintosh netbook
Because your hackintosh won’t bring you much joy if closing the lid makes your computer freeze.
12 things you don’t know about Rob Cottingham
In a few hours I’ll be thankful for a plate of turkey, stuffing and gravy. Meanwhile, there’s nothing like jamming chunks of bread into the cavity of a formerly living creature to make you appreciate what really matters in life. As I stood elbow-deep in turkey, I found myself reflecting on the person who is at the heart of most of what I have to be thankful for this year
Part 6: A checklist of steps to take before installing the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Think carefully before you hacktintosh your netbook, and make sure to do your homework.
Part 5: How to decide if you should install the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Evaluating the trade-offs involved in a hacktintosh: it’s not all about saving a few bucks on the cost of a Mac.
Remembering Michael Griesdorf
What I learned from my dear friend Michael: about love, about the world, and about having a damn good time.
Part 4: My $400 MacBook Air Light
Living with a hacktintosh: the pros and cons of my newly Macified HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, Part 3: How to migrate your current Mac setup to your new Mac netbook
You can get up and running with your hacktintosh a lot more quickly if you make smart use of Apple’s migration manager to copy data, applications and settings from your existing Mac.
Making a Mac netbook, part 2: How to install the Mac OS on a Windows or Unix netbook
A summary of the steps I followed to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on an HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, part 1: Why I Mac-ified
Why I turned my HP Mini 1000 netbook into a Mac — after months running it in Ubuntu and Windows.
OneZero
Keep your Facebook friends from revealing your secrets
The T-List has a very readable, useful and detailed post, Are Your Facebook Friends Revealing Secrets? The post points out that when you leave a post on a friend's Facebook wall, their privacy settings (whether they allow their wall posts to be viewed only by friends,...
Another voice for your real life online
Suzanne Moore at the Mail Online has written my favorite recent social media polemic, Why my friends on Facebook and Twitter matter as much as those in the real world. As a journalist, I am a fan of both Facebook and Twitter and am rather bored of people telling me...
Bathroom graffiti, meet social media
The back-to-school rhythm of September has stayed with me in the years since I graduated myself, but it has fresh resonance this September as I'm back in an academic environment. Here at Emily Carr the pace has quickened, the cafeteria is jammed and the anxious faces...
The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts
Last year it was the staycation. This year it’s the digital fast. "How I unplugged" — from Twitter, from a…
Alone online
When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an...
Talking about talking about social media
Daniel Greene has an interesting post about the need for offline conversations that can help us make sense of our lives online. As he puts it: I need a forum for discussion– a structured, moderated, real life, real time conversation about social media. I need to...
The size of social media
No one is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. That's the core of Mashable's advice in a piece running today, How to...
6 social web sites where you want multiple accounts
If you're trying to develop a consistent voice, brand or set of relationships across the social web, it's very useful to choose a username that is available on all the major social networks and use that as your consistent handle online. (I'm awsamuel, everywhere.) But...
JSTOR DAILY
Keep your Facebook friends from revealing your secrets
The T-List has a very readable, useful and detailed post, Are Your Facebook Friends Revealing Secrets? The post points out that when you leave a post on a friend's Facebook wall, their privacy settings (whether they allow their wall posts to be viewed only by friends,...
Another voice for your real life online
Suzanne Moore at the Mail Online has written my favorite recent social media polemic, Why my friends on Facebook and Twitter matter as much as those in the real world. As a journalist, I am a fan of both Facebook and Twitter and am rather bored of people telling me...
Bathroom graffiti, meet social media
The back-to-school rhythm of September has stayed with me in the years since I graduated myself, but it has fresh resonance this September as I'm back in an academic environment. Here at Emily Carr the pace has quickened, the cafeteria is jammed and the anxious faces...
The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts
Last year it was the staycation. This year it’s the digital fast. "How I unplugged" — from Twitter, from a…
Alone online
When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an...
Talking about talking about social media
Daniel Greene has an interesting post about the need for offline conversations that can help us make sense of our lives online. As he puts it: I need a forum for discussion– a structured, moderated, real life, real time conversation about social media. I need to...
The size of social media
No one is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. That's the core of Mashable's advice in a piece running today, How to...
6 social web sites where you want multiple accounts
If you're trying to develop a consistent voice, brand or set of relationships across the social web, it's very useful to choose a username that is available on all the major social networks and use that as your consistent handle online. (I'm awsamuel, everywhere.) But...
THE VERGE
My 11 most popular blog posts of 2011
29 free or cheap online collaboration software tools for you and your team
Under "fire, pants on", please file my blog post of not two weeks ago, claiming to have seen the light on how to choose online collaboration tools so that you accommodate the least-geeky member of your team. As a philosophy, that lasted for 10 whole days, but as a...
Writing about Motherhood Online
[O]n the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, which liberates you to be a bitch. Not a bitch to others -- ...online mothers' groups are quick to sanction hostility -- but the impatient, imperfect bitch of a mom uses jarred babyfood, disposable diapers and a TV-as...
6 crucial police guidelines for stopping social media vigilantes
Yesterday, Vancouver was treated to the first court appearances by alleged participants in the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots. It was a snapshot of one of the most profound and valuable institutions in our society: a system of justice to which we have collectively delegated...