Take charge of social & mobile media for your cause or campaign At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York on June 2, Katrin Verclas — founder of MobileActive and a partner in Socialbrite — and I will be presenting the first Mobilize Your Cause Bootcamp. I’ve been giving social media bootcamps for some time, […]
Archives for May 2010
The untapped power of APIs
The power of APIs from JD Lasica on Vimeo. How you can let outsiders mine your data for gold In tech circles, the importance of APIs are a given. Flickr, Twitter, Google Maps and Facebook all became dominant in their sectors partly through the genius of releasing open APIs to outside developers. I’ll let our […]
OpenCalais: Serving up context on the fly
Why sharing your content is a smart business move You may have heard about the threat by online publishers to cordon off their sites’ content and put a No Trespassing sign on their lawns to ward off crawls and indexing by the search engine. That chest-thumping strategy is a dead end.* Consider the exact opposite […]
Social media, tech & marketing events: May
Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of May. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. It’s a busy month, and I’ll be kicking it off by heading to Web 2.0 Expo today. Even if you can’t attend, you […]