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How great editing motivates great user-generated content
Jan 20, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
When a business or organization takes on its first social media project, the communications team typically worries about how to handle a deluge of negative comments or inappropriate content. Rob and I always tell people that what they should worry about is the exact...
The meaning of friendship, on- and offline
Jan 19, 2010 | SIM, SMT, Relationships
This weekend was the first time I found myself on the receiving end of Facebook's new and more nuanced privacy settings. An old friend popped up in the Facebook sidebar, which rotates an assortment of different people in your friend list. On a whim, I clicked her...
9 ways social media can support your creativity
Jan 18, 2010 | SMT, Top Self Posts, Self
Creativity often demands social connection: for support, for feedback, for collaborators. Social media can help.
Web services and software for creating family albums and scrapbooks
2008 Presentation at Oberlin Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship
Jan 15, 2010 | SMT, Social Signal
I just discovered that my presentation at Oberlin's 2008 Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship is on YouTube. I talked about how the lessons of building social networks parallel our experience as entrepreneurs.
Feature set for a social media scrapbook
On Managing Information Overload and Extremely Lame Superpowers
Jan 12, 2010 | Top Information Overload Posts, The Harvard Business Review
We all struggle with information overload. If somebody would just push a button and turn off the Internet for a…
How I’m going to go
Jan 10, 2010 | Lifestyle
This weekend has helped me identify the most likely scenarios for my own demise: Buried under mismatched wineglasses. Suffocated by a dishtowel avalanche. Arm spontaneously separates after 18 continuous hours of drilling ceramic tile. Food poisoning from leftovers...
Wanted: Social media scrapbook service
The next chapter: Emily Carr University
Dec 7, 2009 | Biographical
I’m thrilled and honoured that I have been invited to join Emily Carr as the Director of the Centre for Moving Interaction. For the next two years, I’ll work with the students and faculty of Emily Carr to develop research programs that engage BC tech companies in exploring new opportunities for — and applications of — digital creativity. And as part of that work, I’ll do research that digs deeper into the strategic and social implications of social media.