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digital future

Grab your digicam and video your voting experience

by Susan Cato on October 16, 2008 · 0 comments

YouTube and PBS are asking us to video and post our voting experience. Read the announcement here. The videos will be collected on YouTube. It will be interesting to see what folks come up with – collectively this will become a great social documentary and testament to the power of social media. I’m excited, are [...]

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Working for a large trade organization, I am challenged by the typical mix of technology early-adopters, agnostics, and, of course, those who just don’t understand what the big deal is when it comes to Social Media – so they would rather not. Trying to explain why this is important critical is often difficult and frustrating – [...]

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The Blurry Line of Social Media

by scato on October 7, 2008 · 1 comment

As many of you – I spend a lot of time online both personally and professionally. In the age of Social Media, I use a variety of community outlets such as facebook, flickr, youtube, linkedin, twitter, stumbleupon, de.licio.us for both aspects of my life (personal and professional) – and the line between the two is [...]

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David Weinberger is one of the few voices in the web world who makes sense. He is an inspired, dynamic speaker, and has the unique ability to take complex concepts and turn them into easy-to-understand examples. A few years ago, he did a presentation for the Library of Congress Series: Managing Knowledge and Creativity in [...]

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Revisiting the Cluetrain Manifesto

by scato on March 14, 2008 · 4 comments

John Cass, on his PR Communications Blog, recently wrote an excellent critique of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Now that the book is 10 years old, and we are living in the midst of this messy web of connections and conversation, John refers to some of the “95 theses” in the book and discusses them in the [...]

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Technology and a day in real life

by scato on February 27, 2008 · 0 comments

There is something very un-Zen about all of this. No wonder why I want to move to the mountains and live like a hobbit. It is probably questionable whether the spiffy electronic coffee pot can be considered technology. Or the microwave. Or the high-performance dishwasher. Either way, these are just one example of a day [...]

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Why can’t life be like Zappos.com?

by scato on January 15, 2008 · 0 comments

I am a Zappos.com junkie – I spend hours on that site browsing shoes, adding things to my favorites, sharing with friends – who knew that there could be a ‘social media’ outlet for the shoe-obsessed? Don’t get me wrong – you will not get the best bargain on shoes here, what you will get [...]

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The web IS changing us

by scato on January 10, 2008 · 0 comments

I never get tired of this – it’s a very thoughtful perspective on how the Internet is changing our lives, our culture and our sense of community…and to think that 5 years ago, we all thought that the Internet would cause people to stop talking to each other. Now people are connecting with each other [...]

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