Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
How much is that Nazi in the window?
Yesterday we began our "seasonal shopping" -- the process of buying Chanukah gifts for our daughter, and Christmas gifts for her cousins. As we left Vancouver's fabulous Kidsbooks with our two-year-old and her new dreidel book, we wandered to the windows next door....
10 ways to keep online dialogue on topic
I've spent the past two days at a Ohio State for a conference on Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation, which has been a terrifically productive gathering. One session consisted of an interesting conversation about how to structure online deliberation...
Blogs and Dogs
For those of you who suspect that I'm having too much fun at work these days, let me note my upcoming participation in the Banff Centre's Blogs and Dogs workshop. This is a great chance to learn the basics of blogging, or push your blogging skills in new directions....
Mmm, RSS.
All I want for tagsgiving is a del.icio.us turkey.
Make your nonprofit more effective with RSS aggregation
TechSoup invited me to be part of their online event on Web 2.0 this week. Since I was on call for a discussion about social bookmarking and aggregation, I put together a short overview of how aggregation can help nonprofits, and another on how social bookmarking can...
Hats off to the BCTF
The BC Teachers' strike hit home today, with CUPE picketing in support of the teachers even as some prospect for reconciliation has emerged. Our daughter's daycare was closed so that staff could respect CUPE's picket lines. But I have to admit that despite the...
Everything I needed to know about community engagement I learned from Flying Meat
Flying Meat is the software company behind VooDooPad, my latest favorite application ever. VooDooPad is one of those transformational technologies that do one small but crucial thing so incredibly way that they change the whole way you work. In this case, what...
Wanted: Office & Web Manager for community-minded web company
For more details visit http://www.socialsignal.com/hiring If you're organized, enjoy working with technology, and want your work to have social value, you could be the newest member of Social Signal (http://www.socialsignal.com). We're a Vancouver web company that...
Aggregation as an endless loop
Here's a challenge for wiser RSS-wranglers than I: as aggregation becomes a more widely used tool for populating web sites, how do we prevent RSS feeds from being cluttered with multiple identical posts? I was just looking at the Technorati tag page for net2, where a...
Community goes corporate
Boyd Neil of Hill & Knowlton has written a very kind and thought-provoking post in response to the launch of Social Signal. Boyd's observation is that corporate communicators have a lot to learn from social movements and community activists about how to use the...
The Harvard Business Review
How much is that Nazi in the window?
Yesterday we began our "seasonal shopping" -- the process of buying Chanukah gifts for our daughter, and Christmas gifts for her cousins. As we left Vancouver's fabulous Kidsbooks with our two-year-old and her new dreidel book, we wandered to the windows next door....
10 ways to keep online dialogue on topic
I've spent the past two days at a Ohio State for a conference on Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation, which has been a terrifically productive gathering. One session consisted of an interesting conversation about how to structure online deliberation...
Blogs and Dogs
For those of you who suspect that I'm having too much fun at work these days, let me note my upcoming participation in the Banff Centre's Blogs and Dogs workshop. This is a great chance to learn the basics of blogging, or push your blogging skills in new directions....
Mmm, RSS.
All I want for tagsgiving is a del.icio.us turkey.
Make your nonprofit more effective with RSS aggregation
TechSoup invited me to be part of their online event on Web 2.0 this week. Since I was on call for a discussion about social bookmarking and aggregation, I put together a short overview of how aggregation can help nonprofits, and another on how social bookmarking can...
Hats off to the BCTF
The BC Teachers' strike hit home today, with CUPE picketing in support of the teachers even as some prospect for reconciliation has emerged. Our daughter's daycare was closed so that staff could respect CUPE's picket lines. But I have to admit that despite the...
Everything I needed to know about community engagement I learned from Flying Meat
Flying Meat is the software company behind VooDooPad, my latest favorite application ever. VooDooPad is one of those transformational technologies that do one small but crucial thing so incredibly way that they change the whole way you work. In this case, what...
Wanted: Office & Web Manager for community-minded web company
For more details visit http://www.socialsignal.com/hiring If you're organized, enjoy working with technology, and want your work to have social value, you could be the newest member of Social Signal (http://www.socialsignal.com). We're a Vancouver web company that...
Aggregation as an endless loop
Here's a challenge for wiser RSS-wranglers than I: as aggregation becomes a more widely used tool for populating web sites, how do we prevent RSS feeds from being cluttered with multiple identical posts? I was just looking at the Technorati tag page for net2, where a...
Community goes corporate
Boyd Neil of Hill & Knowlton has written a very kind and thought-provoking post in response to the launch of Social Signal. Boyd's observation is that corporate communicators have a lot to learn from social movements and community activists about how to use the...
OneZero
Twitter quickstart: Your first 21 tweets
If you need to stake a claim to your Twitter identity, but you don’t know what to tweet about, here’s an easy way to get your Tweeting underway. You don’t need to look like the world’s most longstanding Twitterer (after all, Oprah just started tweeting last week!), but an empty Twitter feed is just, well, a little forlorn.So I’ve taken the liberty of writing your first 21 tweets for you.
Social media strategy and tech tips, now available through Firefox search
Grab the Social Signal Firefox search tool and get access to all of our great social media resources from your browser’s search bar.
3 great options for Twitter and delicious integration
Tweeting web links is one of the simplest and most effective ways to offer regular, useful info of value to your followers. While you’re tweeting those links, you can also bookmark them in delicious.
Using social media to drive business innovation: insights from Guy Kawasaki and Target’s Michael Axelin
Hearing Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation reminded me of a blog post I wrote last year after attending a talk by Michael Axelin, V.P. of Softlines Design and Product Development at Target (and fellow Oberlin alum). Both talks helped me refine my own thinking on how social media can support business innovation — a key benefit of social media that is neglected in favor of a pure focus on marketing.
3 steps to jumpstart your corporate Twitter account by moving friends and followers from other accounts
If you’re using multiple Twitter accounts, you don’t have to start each one from scratch.
14 tips for Twitter contests that build followers and brand visibility
Inspired by a successful Twitter contest, we ran on our — and created this set of tips on what it takes to run an effective contest.
3 tips to make better use of the Firefox browser
It turns out that a great source of insight on how to make effective use of Firefox is….Firefox.
New resources to help entrepreneurs get started with social media
The SHOP Symposium that CRAVE put on today was bursting with fantastic women entrepreneurs whom I’ve long admired as a customer, member, or as a drooling window shopper. I offered some suggestions on the tools and tactics that can help their companies make the most of social media.
JSTOR DAILY
Twitter quickstart: Your first 21 tweets
If you need to stake a claim to your Twitter identity, but you don’t know what to tweet about, here’s an easy way to get your Tweeting underway. You don’t need to look like the world’s most longstanding Twitterer (after all, Oprah just started tweeting last week!), but an empty Twitter feed is just, well, a little forlorn.So I’ve taken the liberty of writing your first 21 tweets for you.
Social media strategy and tech tips, now available through Firefox search
Grab the Social Signal Firefox search tool and get access to all of our great social media resources from your browser’s search bar.
3 great options for Twitter and delicious integration
Tweeting web links is one of the simplest and most effective ways to offer regular, useful info of value to your followers. While you’re tweeting those links, you can also bookmark them in delicious.
Using social media to drive business innovation: insights from Guy Kawasaki and Target’s Michael Axelin
Hearing Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation reminded me of a blog post I wrote last year after attending a talk by Michael Axelin, V.P. of Softlines Design and Product Development at Target (and fellow Oberlin alum). Both talks helped me refine my own thinking on how social media can support business innovation — a key benefit of social media that is neglected in favor of a pure focus on marketing.
3 steps to jumpstart your corporate Twitter account by moving friends and followers from other accounts
If you’re using multiple Twitter accounts, you don’t have to start each one from scratch.
14 tips for Twitter contests that build followers and brand visibility
Inspired by a successful Twitter contest, we ran on our — and created this set of tips on what it takes to run an effective contest.
3 tips to make better use of the Firefox browser
It turns out that a great source of insight on how to make effective use of Firefox is….Firefox.
New resources to help entrepreneurs get started with social media
The SHOP Symposium that CRAVE put on today was bursting with fantastic women entrepreneurs whom I’ve long admired as a customer, member, or as a drooling window shopper. I offered some suggestions on the tools and tactics that can help their companies make the most of social media.
THE VERGE
Klexi is the cheap and easy way to transfer video to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
If you're heading out of town or to the gym with your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, and you want to load it with videos for the road, you've got a couple of options for filling it up with those yummy, legitimately downloaded .avi and .mkv files (which I'm absolutely,...
Creating a family social media policy
The ongoing conversation in our home about how to use social media — and in particular, how to do so in a way that is both safe and enjoyable for our kids — has helped us evolve a de facto social media policy governing how we engage with social media as a family. I decided it was time to go from de facto to actual, recorded policy. Use our policy as a jumping-off point for your own.
10 ways academics can use Twitter
M.H. Beals has a terrific overview of Social Media for Researchers and Academics, based on a one-way workshop held at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services in Edinburgh. Her post provides a great roadmap of the different ways academics can use...
The social media obituary
His real break came as a stuntman in the Hollywood movie “On the Beach,” about survivors of a nuclear war, which was filmed in Melbourne, his hometown, in 1959. It starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. “He watched Gregory Peck do 27 takes and thought, ‘A...