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SXSW X SWAG
Mar 18, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
Separating my SXSW swag into “take it home” and “throw it out” piles shows what makes for good, memorable promotional materials.
Staying Immune to the Hype Virus at SXSW
Mar 11, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
I’m heading off this week to SXSW Interactive, the annual geekfest that remains the only place where I have actually…
Now on Oprah.com: Spice Up Your Dates With Technology
Mar 10, 2010 | Relationships, SMT
My first post for Oprah.com shares six ideas for how technology can make for better dates.
How to think like a social media artist
If you want to sharpen or deepen your use of social media, try going to art school. That's the big takeaway from my first months here at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. I can't say I'm "going to" art school -- my role heading up the new Social + Interactive...
A novel approach to life online
For the first time in a year, I've lost myself in a book. It's Barbara Kingsolver's latest, The Lacuna-- a marvellous historical novel that centers on a Mexican-American who becomes cook and secretary to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky. I've disappeared...
How Social Media Is Changing Olympic Coverage
Feb 26, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
Plenty of locals in Vancouver are stymied in their efforts to decipher just what the protesters want; or more precisely, what it would take to satisfy them.
—Jonathon Narvey
Game play can help grow a community, offer positive mentorship,…
Is Twitter the new delicious?
Feb 24, 2010 | Toolbox, Productivity, SIM
Delicious, a social bookmarking tool, is like the old boyfriend I rarely see but can’t get out of my heart.
The message of usability
Feb 18, 2010 | Community, SMT, Social Signal, SIM
Completing an online form that reminds me that when you're the one GIVING the money out, there's no pressure to create good user experience. I celebrated Valentine's Day the traditional way this year: filling out a really terrible online form for a funding...
The beauty of baffling
Feb 17, 2010 | SIM, Career, Relationships, SMT
It's the nature of Twitter that you baffle half the people who follow you & are baffled by half the folks you follow. I wrote this tonight in response to an old friend who was teasing me about finding half my tweets baffling. It's a comment I get a lot, often from...
An open source bedtime story
Feb 3, 2010 | Family
Tonight my daughter, a.k.a. Little Sweetie, requested a bedtime story that was "more educational". (Apparently she didn't like my version of the Three Little Pigs, in which the Big Bad Wolf helps the pigs with their unwanted facial hair.) After trying her on the...