Starting at 8:00am Central Time tomorrow morning, we’ll be (fingers crossed) video live streaming, through UStream, a presentation from Tim Walker at Waco’s Social Media Breakfast 7.
We’ll also be testing out the Live Stream Box that Facebook released to publishers and developers last week.
I’ve wrangled together a page that will display the UStream feed and [...]

Can you imagine not having easy access to drinking water in the middle of a brutal summer heat wave?
I certainly can’t, and yet that’s the reality facing hundreds of people who live on the streets of Austin.
Enter Alan Graham and the Austin-based nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF), which has just kicked off a campaign [...]

Sonny Gill and I are thrilled to announce that Marshall Kirkpatrick, VP of content development and lead writer at ReadWriteWeb, will join us as a special guest for this Friday’s #CmtyChat on Twitter from 1:00-2:00pm Eastern.

Marshall edited RWW’s recently published Guide to Online Community Management premium report, so we know he’ll have plenty to bring [...]

When you return from a conference, how do you decide whether the event was actually worth it?
Here are four questions to consider:
1) What did you learn?
Did you pick up something new, or were the sessions entirely a rehash of material you already knew?
2) Were you inspired to move, act, or create?
In his closing keynote at [...]

A good reminder this morning from Chris Brogan that “links are good manners.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Here are two slides that I often include in my blogging presentations:

Link liberally
If you’re writing about another blog post or story in the news it, link to it. If you’re blogging about a cool new website that’s caught your eye, [...]

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Creativity and storytelling were the recurring themes at Podcasters Across Borders 2009, the annual community-minded conference on new media in Kingston, Canada that I attended over the weekend.

PAB 2009 featured solid presentations from start to finish that sent me home chock-full of ideas for creating more compelling content.
Here are some expressions from the speakers that [...]

I’ll be spending the next few days in San Francisco, attending and speaking at the IABC 2009 World Conference at the San Francisco Marriott.
This is a trip I’ve been looking forward to for several months, largely because I’ll be connecting (and re-connecting, in some cases) with professionals whose work I’ve long respected and admired.
Things get [...]

What could be funnier than watching a couple of Grumpy Old (Business)Men get stuck in the mud in off-road vehicles on an Oregon beach? That’s for you to decide, but this video certainly had me in stitches.

(RSS and e-mail readers: You may need to click through to the original post to see the video.)
The vid [...]

There are already plenty of interesting hashtag chats for communicators taking place on Twitter these days–#JournChat, #PR20Chat, and #HCSM (healthcare) among them–but Sonny Gill and I think there’s room for at least one more.
Beginning tomorrow and then every Friday from 1:00-2:00pm Eastern/10:00-11:00am Pacific, Sonny and I will lead #CmtyChat, a discussion on the business of [...]

So what’s a podcaster to do when he can’t find the time or organization to produce a weekly or twice-monthly podcast?
Why, create a daily podcast, logically!

Enter The Daily Boo, launched last night just a few days after an epiphany in the shower of a San Diego hotel (hey, don’t tell me you’ve never had a [...]