Now here’s a cool recipe for a meetup:

Round up a bunch of friends for a gathering using social media tools
Head to a good local restaurant
Share good conversation over a meal — prepared by your grandmother

That’s the gist of the idea dreamed up by Geneva, Switzerland-based entrepreneur Laurent Haug, founder of the Dinner with […]

 

 March 19, 2008 episode of CBC's Spark podcast. : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Color Wars 2008, or the online event challenge that sprouted up out of nowhere on Twitter after a few stray posts by Ze Frank last week, strikes me as something completely random and nonsensical — and that’s probably exactly why I like it. (I tend to enjoy having at least a certain level of […]

It’ll be an unusual start to the baseball season for my beloved Red Sox this season. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05am on Tuesday, as Boston and Oakland play the first of two games from the Tokyo Dome in Japan. Kind of cool, huh?
There aren’t many better days on the calendar than Opening […]

Know what I’d like to see as part of all Facebook event invitations? An “If only…” option.
Take, for instance, this invitation to Social Media Breakfast Singapore, which is scheduled for Saturday, March 29.

It’s not exactly practical for me to travel halfway around the world to attend this first international edition of my breakfast series — […]

Citizen marketer Aaron Strout is carrying out an interesting experiment in social media recruiting as he seeks to fill two positions at Mzinga, a company that builds online communities (Necessary disclosure: I do some podcast production work for Mzinga, and the company also powers the message boards for Monster, my full-time employer).
Aaron is looking […]

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.
But finally, after finding a new web host (electronic hat tip to Doug Haslam for recommending BlueHost - very easy to work with!) and tinkering with WordPress for a couple of weeks, I’m pleased to announce that effective immediately, my primary blogging will be done […]