by Mark | Apr 17, 2008 | Community, Connecting, Social Media
I donated blood this morning for the first time in years. For the purpose of this post, let’s suppose that today was the first time I donated blood. I was amazed to learn that a single donation by a single person will save three lives in five days. That’s...
by Mark | Apr 16, 2008 | Community, Connecting, Events and Conferences, Social Media
With the nudge of Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation) being in town, Robin Browne (DaBizBlog) has organized Geek Dinner Ottawa to take place on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30pm at the Blue Cactus Bar and Grill (2 Byward Market). If you plan on going, please drop a...
by Mark | Apr 14, 2008 | Connecting, Events and Conferences, Meetups, Promotion, Social Media
I was recently invited to a social media gathering in Ottawa. In fact, I received two invitations from the host within ninety minutes of each other; one from Meetup.com, the other from Facebook. Unfortunately, I don’t believe I can attend the event....
by Mark | Apr 4, 2008 | Community, Connecting, Events and Conferences, PAB Conference, PodCamp, Podcast, Podcasting, Social Media
I enlisted the help of some friends to share experiences and ideas related to conference and unconference organizing. The hope is to kick off a conversation in which everyone — conference organizers, sponsors, participants, vendors, etc… —...
by Mark | Apr 3, 2008 | Adoption, Connecting, Social Media
I dug into my archives this morning to see what I was blogging about last year at this time and was struck by a coincidence. On April 3, 2007 I wrote a post titled Less is more in which I discussed scaling back the number of social media/social networking tools I was...
by Mark | Mar 15, 2008 | Connecting, Legal, Networking, Social Media, Technology, Tools
Following the Facing up to Facebook session at the University of Ottawa on Wednesday, Bob LeDrew and I chatted for quite a while about the privacy implications of social media. Specifically, we talked about services like Facebook and how they exploit trust and...
