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Social Broadcasting: Where You Are vs. Where You Aren’t

I’d like to revisit the implications of socially-broadcasting your location and status. Previously, I looked at social broadcasting from a security perspective — namely, the notion that by telling people where you are, you’re also telling people where you aren’t, which could open you up to shenanigans by ne’er-do-wells, or even crime (as in the [...]

Barcamp Baltimore Recap

This past Saturday at University of Baltimore, Dave Troy and the Barcamp Organizers put together Barcamp Baltimore 2009. For a warm and rainy Saturday it was well-attended and I wore my Barcamp Austin 2009 badge which generated alot of conversation.
For those of you not familiar with this type of event, BarCamp is an international network [...]

Upcoming SEO Event on 6/24 - SEO for Realtors in Atlanta, Georgia

Sure, you can learn my secrets to SEO in three minutes (man that sounded like an infomercial) but you can get it straight from the source and from the experts in the business. Coming up on Wed, June 24 in Atlanta, GA, Network Solutions is hosting an event where you will get an in-depth look [...]

Zombies and Pinto Beans: A CrisisCamp Event Review

This past weekend, I attended CrisisCamp, an unconference (where the attendees structure the event and agenda) with the goal of applying technology and technological principles to humanitarian and disaster relief and crisis preparation.

Map to CrisisCamp session rooms, which were named after various calamities.
The attendees came from a diverse range of public, private, and NGO entities, [...]

Baltimore Barcamp - Saturday June 20

As you all know I am a big fan of Barcamp events.
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
On Saturday, June 20, BarCamp is coming back [...]

Event Review: BlogPotomac 2

Friday was the second BlogPotomac conference, held at the State Theatre in Falls Church, VA. Since it was exhaustively tweeted (organizer Geoff Livingston notes that Friday saw about 3,300 posts that used the hashtag #blogpotomac), photographed, liveblogged, recapped, folded, spindled and mutilated, I will just share a few thoughts:
* I think this is the first [...]

Social Media in Crisis Situations: Where the Rubber Hits the Road

Coming up this weekend is CrisisCamp, an unconference event focusing on how social and communication technologies can be used (to help, of course) during crises (see more info on the CrisisCamp wiki).
I will again be interloping, not simply because it’s a free unconference about social media and social communication, or because we’re still dealing with [...]

Event Review: SocStardom3 with Jay Berkowitz

On Monday, we kicked off June with another edition of the SocStardom series of events (SocStardom3, for those keeping track), organized by Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, Robin Ferrier of Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, and our own Shashi Bellamkonda.
The featured speaker was Jay Berkowitz, CEO of Ten Golden Rules. You can see him below, next to [...]

The State of the Word: WordCamp SF 2009

Last Saturday was the latest installation of WordCamp in San Francisco and it was majorly packed. Over 700 people were rumored to be in attendance and if you were there, it was pretty obvious that that number was well within the ballpark of what was expected.This had been my first time attending a WordCamp event [...]

Memorial Day Holiday

In the United States, today is Memorial Day. According to Wikipedia, “Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 25 in 2009). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of [...]