Blinded by the White: Social Media and Diversity

social media and diversity

Over the past couple weeks, two events got me thinking. At South by Southwest in Austin, I was at several events attended by the “social media mafia” – the 300 or so folks that create much of the content around social media nationally. Bloggers, consultants, community managers, et al. There are of course many excellent

Please Help Me Support Make-A-Wish Foundation

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I need your help please. For every vote you cast for the keynote at South by Southwest featuring me and Amber Naslund, we’ll donate $1 of our book advance to Make-A-Wish Foundation®. Go to http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ If you don’t have an account, please make one. It will take just a few seconds Click the link that

13 Observations From South by Southwest (SXSW)

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As usual, this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference was a blur. Between the people, the parties, and purveyors of all things bacon, it was a twenty ring circus of the sublime and bizarre. There was no shatteringly impactful takeaway from SXSW 2010, as it seems we’ve entered a (sure to be brief) innovation lull.

Interactive SXSW Business Card

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In honor of South by Southwest, home of ironic T-shirts, and cool business cards, I had a special edition of my Convince & Convert cards made. Why should business cards just sit there? Why can’t they serve a higher purpose? In this case, that purpose is to open bottles. Ideally, you won’t associate Convince &