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Social Change, Me, and My Mustache

Nov. 19, 2009

What started as a few days last week opting not to shave led me to remember Gradon Tripp’s desire to fight prostate and testicular cancer and Mike Schneider’s video of shaving as part of a 10-year-old global movement every November “to change the face of men’s health” called Movember.
Purposefully choosing not to grow a mustache [...]

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Will Social Media Pay Off?

Nov. 3, 2009

I’ve lived a double online life since June 2009.
Over the past four months, I’ve maintained two blogs–this place where you read my strategies and tips on social media marketing–and another site where I write more sporadic but no less prolific about my campaign for city council.
In cahoots with my campaign blog, I built campaign outposts [...]

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Further Proof Social Media Ain’t Scary

Oct. 28, 2009

I wrote last week about a social media workshop I planned to illustrate why and how social media is not scary.
While I skipped over some slides, here’s the presentation I led at the First Parish Church of Newbury last night to an attendance of about 40 people:
Scary Presentation
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After my talk [...]

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Is the Future Here?

Oct. 24, 2009

Beginning at Ignite Boston 6 and continuing at Pecha Kucha Boston 13 — two different event organizers, two different venues, and two different segmented crowds that each watch a series of timed presentations that automatically advance slides every 30 seconds — I talked about the future.
As the latest edition of my Saturday roundup, I embed [...]

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Can You Help Me?

Sep. 23, 2009

“Human beings have a tendency to want to help one another,” confesses Mitch Joel in the opening sentence of his plea to ask you to buy Six Pixels of Separation, his book that argues we’re no longer connected by six degrees, but far fewer links. It’s on my list of books to read.
Seth Simonds shares [...]

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Social Media for Government: Coming to Chicago

Jul. 29, 2009

In response to the positive feedback from my March 2009 workshop in Washington, D.C. on the importance of government agencies to run measurement benchmarks and analytics before launching social media campaigns, Andrew Krzmarzick and I are tag teaming again this fall for two more 3-hour workshops–in Chicago on September 14 and back in DC on [...]

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Intersecting Social Media and Government

Jul. 25, 2009

Synchronizing my candidacy as Newburyport City Councillor-at-Large, I’d like to share a video interview conducted earlier this month with Permission TV’s Matthew Mamet in their Waltham office. I spoke about my background and the rising trend of Government 2.0, provided some case studies, and shared my thoughts where government in the digital age is going.

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