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Social Media Club Seattle: State of the Social 2011

29 Wednesday Dec 2010

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Earlier this month I attended the Seattle Social Media Club’s monthly meeting hosted at Microsoft’s Conference Center on December 8, 2010 in Redmond, Washington. These last posts of 2010 look ahead at social media for 2011 with notes from this event…

Second in a Series

Scott Porad, CTO for Cheezburger Network — I Can Has Cheezburger?, Failblog.org and more–brought not only some great photos, but also key points for social media in 2011.

Privacy, data and the exchange of privacy rights for data access.

 

Scott Porad discussed privacy as a data commodity

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Social Media Club Seattle: State of the Social 2011

19 Sunday Dec 2010

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Earlier this month I attended the Seattle Social Media Club’s monthly meeting hosted at Microsoft’s Conference Center on December 8, 2010 in Redmond, Washington. There was a good mix of public, for profit and non-profit speakers discussing what they had experienced in 2010 and what they saw emerging for 2011 “State of the Social”. Social media shapers Eugene Cho, Jeremy Bertrand, Scott Porad, Kathy Gill, and Sean O’Driscoll showed up and gave frank and fresh insights.

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TED Women: Seattle Stream

08 Wednesday Dec 2010

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ThinkSpace played host to TED Women: Seattle Stream Dec. 7-8. I carved out a few hours from my afternoon and found a rewarding pocket of insights and perspectives streamed live to  a quiet, dimmed conference room in downtown Redmond, Washington.

The afternoon presentation Life’s Symphony included a wide range of speakers, covering cultural influences, television and global issues. Activist and author Courtney E. Martin talked about her desperation after graduating from Barnard College and finding few ways to impart change. Her book Do It Anyway chronicles 8 activists who are bringing a message of change to everyday life. At the end of the day the humanizing force of engagement may outweigh a preconceived notion of success, and it may just be that we must do it anyway, even when the outcome is far from certain.

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interview improvers

30 Monday Aug 2010

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David Spark has an interesting perspective on interviews, sometimes writing, sometimes being written about. Spark gets that relationship matters and where you go with this may make or break the story you would like to see about your cause, self, book, etc.

Often people approach me about getting things in print and my answer is mostly the same— Take time to know something about the publication and what the editor wants. It seems odd that in charging ahead to communicate, so often the simple is left behind:

learn what’s wanted and try to provide it

This is not to say write or say what people want to hear, but rather take a moment to consider things from an editor’s and reader’s prospective. Basic? Yeah. Forgotten? Often.

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No metaphor is perfect

26 Saturday Jun 2010

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Author David Helvarg  brought a wave of ocean enthusiasm to his reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz. The long-time activist and founder of the ocean dedicated organization, Blue Frontier, was in town to promote his new book,  “Saved by the Sea” but took questions concerning the Gulf Coast oil spill. This was just before Helvarg abandoned his book tour to visit the Gulf and put his focus on the crisis at hand. See his report from the  Gulf here.

Helvarg’s aerial of spill this week

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