August 2010
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Coworking for the Bio-Curious by Emergent Research...
The criteria for the co-workign study by my friend Steve King of Emergent Research is :
1. the facility self-identifies as providing coworking space or language very close to this;
2. it offers a range of membership options (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) and facilities consistent with traditional coworking spaces;
3. it offers some form of community space and/or activities that encourage...
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I tweet therefore I Am in @nyt by @PEGGYORENSTEIN
Peggy Ornestein ‘s book “Cinderella Ate My Daughter” is coming out this year and she is on Twitter hoping to create conversations on her book. In this article in the New York Times she talks about how your Twitter expecations may change the way you behave and there is definitely some truth in that. sort out the line between person and persona, the public and private self. Do...
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Shoppers do not buy from unknown online merchants...
Before I give any online merchant my money I want to make sure they exist. My friends at kikscore.com have a solution for new merchants - get a kikscore rating and proudly display it on your site and validate yourself.
Disclaimer : This is a company started by my friends so I trust themAmplify’d from kikscore.comMore than 63 percent of shoppers do not complete an online purchase because of...
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What the new .co domain name means for your...
I wrote a gues tpost for smallbizdaily.com. One of the best things that happened to me ere because of connecting both online and offline. @rieva editor of smallbizdaily.com is a awesome contact that I was fortunate to meet through @kenyancey of SCORE.
Take 3 to 4 days a month to have lunch or even breakfast with people you admire and you will come back learning more than you can ever give them....
July 2010
40 posts
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Crowd Sourcing the Presidential Motorcade...
The Washington Post article was interesting and showed a side of the current admin that is continuing the volunteering/ crowdsourcing tradition.. As the president was in NYC the motorcade was looking for volunteer drivers and one of them blogged about the volunteer assignment. See blog post http://bit.ly/9OO8G7 .Of course no sensitive info and also the assignment was to drive one of the vans in...
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5 Social Media Topics to Watch @ambercadabra...
I wanted to let you know about this post on the Radian 6 blog where Amber has laid out the 5 topics to watch. In the order of my preference i would rank 1) Social media integration 2) Social CRM 3) measurement 4) location 5) privacy and participation.
What do you think ? head over to the Radian 6 blog and read thw whole article Amplify’d from www.radian6.comLocation, Location,...
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@DaveMcClure Files For $30 Million Venture Fund:...
I know Dave Mcclure wears many hats in fact 500. He has been involved with may forward thinking initiatives. Among other things the Startup Visa . I missed out many times on the Geeks on a plane ( love the concept and want to try foodies on a plane) . DAve is also the Dave is the co-founder of Startup2Startup & Finance4Founders, monthly dinner meetings for Silicon Valley.
Wish him the best...
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Who wants to be the Next Food Network Star ?
According to my buddy @stevenfisher I should apply. They want :
Strong culinary skills
Personality that pops
Passion for cooking
Extensive food knowledge
Lots of energy and enthusiasm
Do you have them ? Looking forward to seeing you on TV Amplify’d from www.carryoncurry.comThe Next Food Network Star is now casting Season 7! Check out www.nfns7casting.com for more information,...
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Social Media Site For Fitness from @techcocktail
Interesting site and you should also check out fitfeud.com for another type of fitness and social exchange. Amplify’d from techcocktail.comIf you thought the gym or yoga studio was your safe-haven from the connected world, think twice. Devices and sites are keeping us connected and trying to keep us on plan and in shape more than ever. The great news is that new sites like FiVi.com are moving...
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Social Media Site For Fitness from @techcocktail
Interesting site and you should also check out fitfeud.com for another type of fitness and social exchange. Amplify’d from techcocktail.comIf you thought the gym or yoga studio was your safe-haven from the connected world, think twice. Devices and sites are keeping us connected and trying to keep us on plan and in shape more than ever. The great news is that new sites like FiVi.com are moving...
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Code for America Chooses DC : Connecting city...
I think this is a great initiative and may help city and local government’s get the power of Web 2.0 Glad to see Peter Corbett on the Board of Advisors http://codeforamerica.org/who-we-are/ Amplify’d from codeforamerica.orgSince our May announcement of the five Code for America cites, we have been working to better define the projects that our teams (made up of Fellows and city staff)...
Amplify Introduces Post by Email
Got a exciting email from Eric Goldstein CEO of Amplify that I wanted to share with you and also at the same time test the new feature that Amplify ahs introduced. If you are reading this, then I did something right. Cheers ! I like Amplify and came across it from another user in my network just by following their link. Do you use Amplify?
Today we are excited to introduce post-by-email on...
#dmv events : IABC DC 's Annual Networking and...
Annual Networking and Resume Review/Career Counseling Night What : One of IABC/DC Metro’s signature events, the Annual Networking Night is a sweat-free tradition in the DC Metro area’s public relations and business community. Not only is it an opportunity to meet and mingle with communicators from all over the area, it is also a chance for free resume review and career counseling...
8th Annual Moving Your Business Forward Conference...
I am in Atlanta on 27th and 28th and I am looking forward to being part of July 27th Atlanta tweet-up Happy Hour Brent Leary and the Swami at Tavern 99 and the 8th Annual Moving Your Business Forward Conference | “Technology & Diversity in Social Media” on July 28th 1) If you can come to the meetup please RSVP here : http://julyatl.eventbrite.com/ | Tavern 99 128 East Andrews...
@egoldstein I need a way to call a number and post to my Amplify the podcast http://bit.ly/bSo3Lj
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The North Dakota Farm Bureau Social Media success
Interesting article on farmers and social media with a nice quote : “Consumers are seeking out where their food comes from and farmers can capture simple stories of their farming and ranching practices through blogging,” Pinke said
Have you heard of http://www.localharvest.org/ and http://cropmob.org/Amplify’d from www.grandforksherald.comDICKINSON, N.D. — Farmers far and wide are turning...
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Graphene as the magic material for the next...
This is a cool look at some future materials that will make our electronics faster and make the term “nanribbons” more commonplace even though the article from MIT says ‘“It’s a first step in a long chain of steps that will lead to graphene electronics.”“Amplify’d from www.technologyreview.comThe new method, which involves building from the molecular...
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Great cartoon - WallSt and the Financial reform
Economist is a great magazine.Amplify’d from www.economist.comSee more at www.economist.com See this Amp at http://bit.ly/bGlvzX
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India Reveals Linux-Based $35 Tablet
This FastCompany article is a bit snarky. In retrospect I should have amplified a more thorough analysis from the Wall Street Journal (http://bit.ly/dqsizU ).
Seems like the project was spearheaded by the “National Mission for Education” most likely similar to the STEM program. The device cost will be as much as a common cell phone.
I think taking a potshot at OLPC ( who ever did...
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No yelp for hospital reviews ?
Good article and thought provoking question from Anne Zieger @nextHealthMedia What are we doing to leave patients so untouched, unconnected and unimpressed (maybe not disappointed, but not impressed) by their hospital stay that they do nothing to communicate about it on their own?Amplify’d from nexthospitalmanifesto.wordpress.com Seems like a good time to consider the following data, drawn from...
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Does Your Job Title Get the Job Done? @hbr
Must read article on the Harvard Business Review blog by Bill Taylor. Great quote from the article - “Would you rather be director of process improvement at a fast-growing software company, or, in the words of one job title of the future, Minster of Progress?”
I agree I would rather remain a Social Media Swami for Network Solutions :)Amplify’d from blogs.hbr.orgNobody does a better...
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US paid search spending continued to regain...
Interesting read from emarketer that consolidates stats from several reports to show that Bing is growing. Even thought the results of Q2 were less than Q1 the spend is growing year over year. Read the article and subscribe to the daily newsletter. You will not be disappointedAmplify’d from www.emarketer.comSee more at www.emarketer.com See this Amp at http://bit.ly/9LW7us
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50 feared killed as train rams another in Indian...
The Indian Railways is a large employer in India and keeps the country moving seems to have a issue in the recent years with multiple disasters. Sad to see loss of life.Amplify’d from www.ndtv.comFifty people are feared dead in a train collision in West Bengal, near the Jharkhand border. Over 170 people have been taken to hospital, some are said to be in critical condition. At around 2 am on...
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Why The "Old Spice Guy" Might Be The Perfect...
Read the article by Rohit Bhargava here http://www.rohitbhargava.com/2010/07/why-the-old-spice-guy-might-be-the-perfect-branding-campaign.html .
Top 3 points according to me:
-The real time nature of these videos
- advertising agency team behind this is clearly personally invested in the campaign
-the level of integration between television, online and social media in this campaign stands...
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The truth is that Social media marketing for small...
From my own experience it is really important for small business to be focused and use the social media tools to cater to their customers and acquire customers. many success stories but be cautious about your time.Amplify’d from www.usatoday.comYou’ve got 3,560 people following you on Twitter and 1,450 fans on your Facebook page. That’s great for your ego, but what’s it doing...
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Washington DC at the tip of the Burger #dmv
Interesting article on how Washington Dc area based companies are doing extremely well in the Burger arena. OT=ther chains that cater to this local market Cheeburger Cheeburger, Z burger any others?Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com
The Washington area has emerged as fertile ground for ground chuck. Five Guys, the earliest success story, is based in Lorton, Elevation Burger in Arlington,...
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Take the Leap - great job @rajmalikdc →
Very business savvy and the legal background adds to an amazing strength of talents and skills.
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This Montgomery County Blogger needs your support
The lack of consideration for pedestrian safety in the DC area amazes me. Very often local governments try to change pedestrian behavior instead of making it easy for walkers to cross roads safely. This article “Legally blind blogger working to improve pedestrian safety in Montgomery” is a must read. before you pick up your phone and try to text whiel driving remember there are others...
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Mobile Devices Continue To Take Market Share... →
Smartphones are now owned by 49.1 million people in the U.S. as of the three month ending in May — up 8.1% compared with the prior three months,
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US Broadband Users Settle for Less @emarketer
Hope we fix this soon. “According to a 2009 report from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, the US does not even make the top 10 list of broadband leaders when measuring household penetration and quality of connection.”Amplify’d from www.emarketer.comThe term “information superhighway” is rarely heard these days to describe the internet, most likely because it has...
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Confidence and conviction are the key to many...
Great post from Olivier Blanchard. Read the original post specially look for the sentence “Community managers don’t necessarily need to be experts in R.O.I”Amplify’d from thebrandbuilder.wordpress.comThis got me thinking. This is a pretty important topic, especially given Ben’s “dangerous” comment thrown in. It may not seem like it, but confidence and conviction are two of the most...
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Microsoft Instaload technology lets you stuff the...
One of nw ways Microsoft is making life easy . WIRED says that the licensing issues will prevent the technology from making a difference to us. Also read the Consumerist article http://bit.ly/9VjjJJAmplify’d from www.wired.comMicrosoft has come up with an amazingly obvious tweak to battery tech that should save us some headaches, as well as several trillion hours of head-scratching and peering...
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On vacation but plugged in from the beach
At the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the school-aged play Xbox Live in rental houses with friends hundreds of miles away. From Delaware beach towns, they post Facebook photos and messages. At state parks, iPods and Nintendo DS consoles are packed into minivans along with marshmallows and fishing rods. Everywhere are parents who could not make the trip without a computer or BlackBerry.Amplify’d...
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Local-Food Movement Plus Social Networking
NICHE MOBS
Riverbend Farm in Delano, Minn., has been hosting crop mobs before the term existed. Tracy Singleton, owner of Birchwood Cafe in Minneapolis, said monthly trips to the farm started a couple years ago as a way to help the local farmer, build community and educate restaurant staff about the origins of the food they were preparing. This year, her restaurant, along with Common Roots and...
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Nature's call in Montgomery Parks will have a...
It seems like $65 a month for sponsoring a toilet seems reasonable. Wonder why Proctor and Gamble, Colgate are not using this opp. IF no one sponsors the portale toilets then they may soon disappear and then nature’s call may have be answered in natural surroundingsAmplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com
There will be a place to answer the call of nature in Montgomery County’s parks...
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Russian mathematician wins $1 million prize, but...
Salute this genius who was so modest even after solving a problem that was unanswered for over 100 years. It took 3 years for other mathematicians to validte his findings and yet he chose to ingore money over modestyAmplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com
Three months ago, a famously impoverished Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman was awarded the prestigious $1 million Clay Mathematics...
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Introducing The Social Customer Engagement Index...
You should go to the article and pre-register for the whitepaper nowAmplify’d from thesocialcustomer.comA few weeks ago we invited members of TheSocialCustomer.com community to participate in a short survey to help us better understand how your companies were using social technologies to support their customers. We also partnered with The Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals (SOCAP) to...
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Money, it turns out, really can buy you happiness...
A new survey — the first large international study to differentiate between overall life satisfaction and day-to-day emotions — makes that crucial distinction, allowing researchers to explore the elusive concept of happiness in much greater nuance.
“It’s sort of a new era for the study of well-being,” said Daniel Kahneman, a professor emeritus of psychology and...
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advertisers with social media presence are...
Great read from the New York Times on how food brands are using social media to engage with community. We eat everyday and this makes sense to engage where we may be talking about food anywayAmplify’d from mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.comNow, two familiar brands of baked goods sold by Kraft Foods are stepping up their marketing efforts in social media.One brand, Oreo cookies, is going to be giving...
