Trends in Social Media & Agriculture
It was nice to be with a group of people who were unequivocally genuine, hard working and solid…. New Media Strategies is owned by Meredith Publishing. So is Successful Farming. It was like meeting a sibling you didn’t know you had years after the fact and realizing you have so much in common.
How to Use Social Media as a Female Legislator
The National Foundation for Women Legislators held their 2009 Women’s Congressional Broadband Summit on Wednesday and Thursday…. as a continuation of their summit, NFWL also held their Joint Leadership Meeting where I was able to share some thoughts on how elected women (and those working to become elected) can utilize social media.
3121: The social network for Congress
A lot of people are actually calling it the LinkedIn for the Hill. Local bloggers, Frank Gruber over at Somewhat Frank, Nick O’Neill at Social Times, even Adam Ostrow at the Mashable blog, they were kind of all talking and saying, “you know, this is kind of like a LinkedIn.” But the thing about LinkedIn, you kind of populate with your CV or your resume information and I don’t know about you, but I don’t update it regularly.
From Anonymity to Translucency
These are a few slides that I developed over the summer of 2009 that map out the way we have and (potentially) will engage as human beings, with one another and with brands, concepts, issues and politicians, online.
Discussion of Age Demographics in Social Media
I was interviewed by Ronald Reagan’s son on the progressive radio network Air America. I would add to what I said: “I would argue that most media is social at some level these days (namely, that which is found online and that which you have a contact database around [e.g., text messaging, instant messaging "IMing" and BlackBerry Messaging "BBMing"]).”
Social Media for Farming, Agriculture and Vineyards
As many others have articulated before me, I too have always thought that social media is not just a listening mechanism, but one that helps in telling and documenting.
Indiana and the Friedman Foundation’s Generator Forum
Be inclusive, not just exclusive…. while launching C-SPAN’s Convention Hubs through TechCrunch and Mashable and Debate Hubs through ZDNetand Ars Technica was certainly effective, what sustained the success of these projects was the manual linking to blog posts, reaching out to a variety of bloggers over Twitter, email, phone and IM… and even reading blog and Twitter posts on air…
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DC [2.0] Rising
…when it comes to who is listening and caring about online discussions, outlets, tools, networks and technologies… the “influentials” appear to not only take this new medium seriously, but they are willing to put/putting it to work.