Circle Up People, the future of Google Plus depends on itCircle Up People, the future of Google Plus depends on it

Forget the debate for a moment on what Google Plus is right now. Let’s assume Google+ has the capacity to do anything, the question is what will it do, and how will users adapt it for their own purposes. Remember when Facebook first launched? No newsfeed. No [...]

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 [...]

Location Based Social Networks and the ArtsLocation Based Social Networks and the Arts

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I’ll be teaching a workshop in a few weeks on Location Based Social Networks and the Arts in San Francisco. We’ll be chatting about Google Places, Yelp, Facebook Places, and Foursquare. I know there will be total novices in the crowd who’ve never used (or maybe [...]

The Science of Social MediaThe Science of Social Media

Just wrapped up a weekend in DC with the Cultural Development Corporation of DC, teaching two workshops, and fourteen 1-on-1 strategy sessions with individual artists and DC arts organizations. I first met Executive Director Anne Corbett at the Americans for the Arts conference this past [...]

A Digital Media Audit for Dad’s Garage

Dad’s Garage Digital Media Audit

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Of all the awesome people I met at the TCG conference, only Kevin Gillese actually asked me what I thought of his theatre’s social [...]

Branding Yourself Through Technology and Social Media

Branding Yourself Through Technology & Social Media

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On Sunday, I’m leading 3 back to back forty-minute roundtable discussions on personal branding for Career 360 [...]

Theatre & Social Media: TCG 2010

The Theatre Communications Group 2010 National Conference wrapped up last night. I heard word it was the largest in the conference’s history, clocking in at just under 1,000 attendees. A sizable chunk of those folks live tweeted several breakout sessions, mostly under the #TCG2010 moniker.  My presentation, [...]

Revisiting Vocalo's Social Media StrategyRevisiting Vocalo’s Social Media Strategy

The final presentation of our social media strategy for Vocalo.org happened on Thursday. It went really well, barring the fact that we went wayyyy over our allotted time. In the four days between the first draft of this that I posted online and [...]

Vocalo.org: A Social Media Strategy for Public MediaVocalo.org: A Social Media Strategy for Public Media

My social media class is finally wrapping up, and our final presentation is on Wednesday. As you might remember, I’ve been working to develop a social media strategy for public media streaming radio station Vocalo. Along the way, I hoped to be able to [...]

Social Media Strategy PresentationSocial Media Strategy Presentation

I updated the social media strategy presentation for my Artistic Director/Managing Director/senior staff, incorporating more of the research findings, and corrected a few formatting issues. The meeting date’s been set: Jan 25! Of course, the marketing office has already been moving forward: finally launched the