Casual Coworking: Jelly In Atlanta

Jelly In Atlanta is Atlanta’s casual coworking group. WHAT’S JELLY? Jelly‘s a casual work event where everyone’s invited. It’s for anyone who’d like to work alongside other creative people in a welcome environment. Some Jellies are in people’s homes (that’s how it started) others are in coffee shops and businesses. You bring your laptop and [...]

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Twitter To Begin Charging Brands For Commercial Use

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: “We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.” Key Takeaways, according to The Daily Anchor: * The fees will only apply to companies, not individual users * It’s not yet [...]

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Social Media Week NY

Wish I could make it up to NYC this week for the inaugural Social Media Week NY! It aims to create an open and inclusive environment offering a series of free events, including workshops and panel discussions, and a platform for individuals, group and companies to organize their own activities. The week’s activities have been [...]

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SoCon09 – Social Media Unconference

This weekend I attended a social media unconference near Atlanta called SoCon, hosted at Kennesaw State University. What’s an unconference? An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The term “unconference” has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects [...]

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SoCon09 – Social Media For Social Change

Tomorrow evening kicks off SoCon09, a social media “unconference” being hosted at Kennesaw State University for it’s third year. The gathering consists of a dinner Friday night with eight tables each focused around discussion topics such as podcasting, social media in education and web publishing. It resumes early Saturday morning with a bit of breakfast [...]

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What I Herd On Twitter

My friend Bre Pettis turned me on to a new Twitter visualization tool called TwitterSheep, created by Nick Bilton and the R&D lab at the NYTimes. Using Twitter’s API, it generates a tag cloud of terms used frequently in the profiles of users that are following you. My most commonly found terms include “social” “media” [...]

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Coca-Cola Explores The Virtual World With “Avatar” Commercial

Wieden+Kennedy produced “Coca-Cola Avatar” which aired during Super Bowl XLIII. From Laughing Squid

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