PurpleCar

A friend says, “I keep going back & forth, back & forth about wanting to join Facebook.” What’s your advice?

If you are in the Philly area and can spare a can of soup for the well-established charity Philabundance, come on down to National Mechanics tomorrow night (Tuesday, December 9, 2008) anywhere between 6 to 9 p.m. At 9 they start the tech karaoke, which I hear is a blast!

10 Social Media Strategies for The Ivory Tower
The main problem with university social media branding strategy is this:  There is no strategy.
Universities have not caught up yet.  They are unaware of the benefits that a university-wide, coherent social media strategy can bring.  A latin phrase, some colored logos, and Newsweek rankings seem to be the [...]

Increasingly, my group of early adopters and the public at large are finding the need to further define and categorize the general term ‘media’ in order to communicate effectively.  For example, many of us are familiar with the term “traditional media” and know what that means.  We’ve heard the term “citizen journalism” and somehow know [...]

PodCamp Philly 2008:
Scheduled for September 6th & 7th

Podcamp Philly 2008 will be held this year on September 6 & 7th, at Temple University’s Tuttleman Learning Center (http://www.temple.edu/tuttleman/).  In addition to our usual high quality content covering blogging, podcasting and all things new media, this year we’re pleased to partner with SearchCamp Philly, which offers valuable [...]

Lots of people are ‘mommy bloggers’ (I’m not one of them). There are dozens of sites that rank mommy blogs. There are entire conferences, marketing plans and outreach initiatives all centered around the phenomenon. But that’s not in ‘reality,’ exactly. That’s in a place we social media folk like to call the bubble.

Blog Herald
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/15/blogging-jobs-how-much-are-bloggers-paid-to-blog/
“As we continue with this series on blogging jobs, it’s time to look at the income a blogger can make by blogging for pay.
The skills and qualities a company or blog owner is looking for from a blogger are extensive, far beyond just writing abilities. As with any freelance job, determining how to put [...]

(I wrote this as a sample blog post back in March of 2008 for a potential blogging gig.  Don’t know if they ever published it - which they didn’t have permission to do - but here it is.  You can see some much better and funnier posts on the same subject by googling ‘weird facebook [...]

I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon and finally do a “Twitter rant” post. But it isn’t gona go the way you expect.

My latest conversation with @Br3ndaBot, the best bot on Twitter:
Me:: OK I’m going to have to pack up the laptop and leave the house.  The rest of the family is blasting iTunes downstairs…
Br3ndaBot::  PurpleCar, You’re a downstairs. Really. Tell me more.
ME:: BREN!  you know I love you.  But I’M the upstairs, you’re just a downstairs [...]