A busy, busy week. Tonight I’m heading to the chichi Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco for the Aspen Institute‘s roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. Leaders from the technology and Internet industries, advocacy groups and academia will be exploring examples of socially productive uses of mobile technologies and their potential for strengthening future communities. […]
Web/Tech
Track down anyone online, anywhere
Lifehacker: Track Down Anyone Online, Anywhere. A guide to locating people through search tools. In short: ZabaSearch – to find names, phone numbers, addresses. Pipl – to bring up information that Google might miss. Pipl indexes pages that the Googlebots have decided are not worth visiting. Wink – to search several social networking websites at […]
Top 100 Social Media Sites: Guess who’s #1?
I’m not into bragging, but thanks to VirtualHosting for naming this blog the #1 Social Media/Web 2.0 blog in all the land. Here’s their Top 100 list. There are a few on here I hadn’t heard of and will be checking out (I often leave the marketing/PR social media angle to others). Tom Pick runs […]
10 ways to protect your online reputation
RISMedia: 10 Ways to Protect Your Online Reputation. Here are 3 of the great tips there: 4. Use sub-domains. If you really do not want to budget for buying individual domains, try sub-domains on your primary domain. Most hosting services allow you to have multiple free sub-domains such as www.careers.yourbusiness.com. Sub-domains are treated as individual […]
3rd European Futurists Conference
I was invited to attend the 3rd European Futurists Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Nov. 19-21. Alas, can’t make it, but looks like a great lineup.