This was the best Thanksgiving ever! Not only was I with my  blood family (mother and two daughters, though we also have five stepchildren and three former foster children), but I was with all my Twitter and Facebook friends all over the world.
This was the first time I Twittered the making and eating of the […]

December meeting
Begins: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 at 6:30 PM
Ends: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 at 8:00 PM
Entry fee: Free
Location:
Jobing.com, 2nd floor
22nd St. south of Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85016
USA

Link: Social Media Club Phoenix

Monthly meeting of the Phoenix Social Media Club.
Video tools for social media will be the topic, although almost anything might be discussed.

Tags: social media, […]

BarCamp Phoenix is a month away, and the organizers are trying to drum up interest to help ensure a good turnout. Social Media Club Phoenix is, of course, supporting BarCamp Phoenix, which will be held on Dec. 8th at the University of Advancing Technology. I think the best thing people could do right now is […]

I just read a post by Jeremiah Owyang, a man I truly admire, on today’s announcements at AdTech about Facebook and Myspace’s new social ads, and I think he is wrong. In fact, I think he’s so wrong about whether this will be successful for Facebook that I not only commented on his blog […]

As part of a contract with SLHI, I decided to try offering a workshop for nonprofits this morning. Jon Ford, with whom I work most closely at the Foundation, has been engaged in an effort to build community through web tools. This was one of the ideas we came up with to preach the gospel.
We […]

I was thinking about “The Cult of the Amateur” and Andrew Keen when I made this video about gatekeepers. I read Milton’s essay many years ago in graduate school, but I realized he was really talking (in 1644) about the same issues — censorship by editing and licensing. For social media as well as […]

We had a very productive meeting about Twitter, Linked In and Yahoo Pipes last month, even though it was July in Phoenix.  I’m going to hold off on an August meeting, however, and then hold the next one in September when everyone’s back in the saddle.  The topic for that meeting will be Facebook, and […]

I’ve been hanging around in Second Life lately. My avatar, Chauncey Barkkorn, is an omnivore. He’s a 28-year-old male. But I am not, and I am finding the interface daunting, although friends in both SL and RL are helping. It took me a long time just to dress Chauncey and choose his appearance, and […]

Social Media Club Phoenix had a meeting tonight devoted to discussing the influence of social media on politics. Among the major themes that emerged:
1)MySpace is going to vote candidates “off the island” between now and the primaries.  We figured out (roughly) that MySpace has 150,000,000 users, most of whom are in the US.  If that’s […]

Chris asked on a Twitter when social media would cross over into the mainstream.  I think this will not happen until there is either a compelling business case or a compelling social case. From my own work, I think the social case will come first.  I am working with two not-for-profits who want to use […]

The 3000 people who have registered for O’Reilly’s Web2.0 Expo 2007 are a sign that social media is more than just a “narcissystem,” as Chris Pirillo calls it. The precious few hours I spent there have convinced me that this is a trend that will reach the mainstream, even if the jury’s out on how […]

At tonight’s Social Media Club meeting we saw a really great preview of a new use of social media, the iMemories online site. iMemories is founded by one of the former founders of Knowledgenet. Its mssion is to help people who have old film and videos digitize and edit them online, and then share them […]

Has anyone seen what is happening to Kathy Sierra? (http://www.headrush.typepad.com)   It turns my stomach not only for her, but for the entire social media movement. How can we spawn a citizen journalism society, or, indeed, any kind of civilized society, if people continue to threaten bloggers with death?
This is not “social,” nor is it […]

Last night’s meeting was at a new venue, a wonderful room donated by Jobing.com, with screens and projectors, and everything a presenter needs, and although we have had overflow crowds in the past, only twenty people showed up. I guess we didn’t do a good enough job of getting the word out about the change […]

Last night’s meeting of Social Media Club Phoenix veered off into a very interesting direction. During the introductions around the room, one of the attendees said that he wondered if social media were actually dehumanizing, filtering communication and removing it from the realm of face-to-face. The facilitator allowed the discussion to come back to […]