Can Social Media Predict Sundance Film Award Winners?

Will social media buzz be any indication of who’s going to win a Sundance award tonight? If it is, here’s what we should see. [...]

High Impact Social Media

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What’s working for arts organizations now? “Once someone likes us on Facebook, what do we do with them? How can we use Twitter to raise money? Can Foursquare really enhance the audience experience? How can Tumblr help us make sense of it all?” [...]

Crowdsourced Voting: Modeling User Behavior with Math

The Nonprofit Technology Conference uses crowdsourced voting (plus a panel of experts and NTEN staff) to determine which panels to host at their annual conference. As I was perusing and voting on panels myself this afternoon, I started thinking about the value of a [...]

The Case for A New Arts Incubator Model

Next week I’ll  be speaking at Arizona State University’s p.a.v.e. program–the performing arts venture experience, one of the few arts incubators in the country. The program offers “arts entrepreneurship classes,” financial ($1-$5k), in-kind (space & materials), and other support (faculty mentors) for “student initiated [...]

SXSWi 2012: Trends & Panels

Voting for SXSW 2012 ends this Friday, and I’ve been racing to scan through all 3, 278 submissions to try to find the gems, to find friends who are also proposing, to find some clue into the future of tech. I collected a bit of data during last year’s panelpicker [...]

Games for Change ConferenceGames for Change Conference

Founded in 2004, Games for Change is the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact.  They bring together organizations and individuals from the social impact sector, government, media, academia, the gaming industry and the arts to grow the field, incubate new projects and provide an open platform for the exchange [...]

Earning Your Social Media MFA: everything we never get to talk aboutEarning Your Social Media MFA: everything we never get to talk about

I spend most of my time with clients talking about the most basic features of social media, so I was excited that the TCG conference this weekend gave me the opportunity to talk about the exciting future of social media-everything we never get to talk about. From big ideas like [...]

SXSW 2011: A Peek at My NotesSXSW 2011: A Peek at My Notes

At this year’s SXSW, I didn’t see any break out hits or major controversies. Foursquare continued to bask in the press’s glow, group-texting services battled over who could give away the most free tacos, and Chris Brogan wasn’t around to pitch a fit over douchebag marketers.  The keynote interviews were [...]

SXSW 2011: An Artists-Meet-Geeks FAQSXSW 2011: An Artists-Meet-Geeks FAQ

I’ve proposed a SXSWi 2011 panel called, “The Tools Artists Need Geeks to Create.” You should vote for it. Like, now.

But wait, you say, I don’t even know what SXSWi is, other than a bunch of silly letters. South by South [...]

The Social Media BubbleThe Social Media Bubble

Sometimes I worry that I’ve succomb to the social media bubble. When you spend a lot of time reading, thinking, writing, and talking about social media, and you’ve acquired a handful of friends and colleagues that are doing the same, it can start to seem like the [...]