Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethemedia, bethkanter, blogging, friendfeed, twitter, utterz on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve got very little time to spare these days and for the next little while, as we are fast approaching the date of my organization’s major event on Sunday, August 3, at the same time as we are getting ready to launch our new website (about to launch in beta in about ten days - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged business practice, chrisbrogan, MBA, social media, translation on June 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever since I started writing this blog, I’ve thought about my role in social media in terms of some of my favorite metaphors, like Translator, Interpreter, and Ambassador.
As time has gone on, I have only become more convinced that this is what I’m really good at, that this is really what I have to offer.
I’m [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged learning, MBA, web2.0 on June 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m starting an MBA in the fall, and so I decided to spend some time this summer brushing up my quantitative skills in preparation for what promises to be a pretty intense first year.
I’m fine at math. It just… takes me a while. It takes me longer to grok things expressed in numbers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged branding, gardnermuseum, IMA, jakebarton, MFA, museums, TiTA on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Museums are among my favorite things ever. When I travel, that’s what I look for first: the museums.
While I’m intensively partial to the classic fine arts model, I also very much enjoy a good science museum, and am frankly plain nuts for historical homes and preserved sites.
I love museums because they are some of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brightkite, flip, MHC, plurk, reunion, twitter, utterz on June 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been experimenting with a handful of new social networking sites lately, seeing how they work for me, and exploring what they might do for my organization.
Brightkite is a location-based social network, in which you post your location when you feel like updating. You can also post photos, which is nice.
However, I am already [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged branding, chrisbrogan, icecream on June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My organization hosted an event this last weekend, with about 150 people — artists, business leaders, community leaders, etc. — in attendance. In the days leading up to the reception, several people called me to ask me what the dress code for the event was.
Now, things are pretty casual on Cape Cod, as a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charleneli, forrester, groundswell, jeremiahowyang, joshbernoff, mountholyoke, reunion, socialmedia, strategy on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been watching Beth Kanter traipsing across the globe over the last couple of weeks, as she traveled to Australia to give some workshops and a keynote on social media for nonprofits. She’s been blogging and twittering and uploading pictures to Flickr the whole time, and I’ve checked in with her updates a couple [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m leaving work a little early tomorrow afternoon and driving out to Western Massachusetts to attend my 15th year reunion at Mount Holyoke College. I’ll be giving a workshop on Web 2.0 for Nonprofits first thing Friday morning, which is really kind of a thrill for me, to teach a class at my old [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged barrier to entry, rain, technology on May 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
For a couple of years now, I have been increasingly fearful of driving my car in what I tend to refer to as “weather.” Meaning, of course, rain or snow of any sort of noticeable intensity.
So much so, in fact, that a few months back I missed a chance to have lunch with a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Len Edgerly was my featured speaker last night in the class I’m presenting at work, What’s Your Story: Personal Branding, PR and New Media for Artists. (Check out the class blog here.)
Unfortunately, we ran into some logistical problems when, minutes before the class was to begin, we noticed smoke coming out of two outlets [...]
