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Mansion of Terror – Halloween Social Media Style

In the continued blurring of the lines between content creators serving as “new media”, public relations professionals, mainstream media and the combination of all of the above, I was given press credentials and a media kit for an excellent haunted house here in Austin. In keeping with the interactive nature of social media, I was [...]

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Poverty and Personal Crisis

Early this morning I stood in the shower, letting the water–as hot as I could stand it–cascade over my aching neck and shoulders.”This will probably be the most peaceful moment I have today,” I thought, lingering much longer than usual. After only a couple of hours of sleep, I’d been awakened by a text message from [...]

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Social media prepares for Hurricane Gustav

The Web 2.0 world right now is doing what it does best; sharing information, passing links and exchanging ideas as we prepare for Hurricane Gustav to hit the US Gulf Coast. A sample of some pertinent social media activity (please add other good ones in the comments below:) Tweets from NOLA.com, the online arm of the New [...]

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Hunger Is Unacceptable: Let’s do something about it!

Meet David Neff of the American Cancer Society, Austin Social Media Club, 501 Tech Club of Austin, and social media true believer. This is David Neff demonstrating how social media and social networking are becoming increasingly effective in actually accomplishing social goodness in a busy and fast paced world. The picture you see of David is [...]

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Spammers and Scammers on Social Networks

It’s ironic that a few days before speaking on Using Social Media for Social Good I would wind up filing a complaint with the FTC about a possible fraud being committed on social networks. That same day we held a plurkshop on Internet security issues and microblogging. Hence the title of this post: spammers and [...]

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