I had a chance to dig into the nearly week-old Google Sidewiki today, and there’s plenty to like–and not like–about the product. Here’s my take:
Instant social
* Sidewiki enables any page on the web to become social–from Chris Brogan’s tweet stream to the Walmart homepage or a Seth Godin blog post. Once users download and install [...]

I ripped a page right out of Rob Quigley’s playbook with a crowdsourcing experiment during the Houston Social Media Breakfast on Friday morning.
The backstory
Rob, who is the social media editor at the Austin American-Statesman, executed a terrific “Day in the Sun” storystream for the paper two weeks ago using Posterous, a blogging platform that allows [...]

My travels next week will take me to Canada’s capital city of Ottawa (that’s me on Parliament Hill in a previous visit). I’m scheduled to take in at least three interesting events:
1) Third Tuesday Ottawa: On Monday night (yes, I know it says Third Tuesday … but close enough!), author Shel Israel will speak about [...]

A couple of entries from Dan York caught my attention this week.
The first centers on Dan’s continued thinking around the Facebook Effect: Just how do you handle those friend requests from people you barely know? And then this: “How do you create a private space in which to have deeper interaction while also simultaneously nourishing [...]

Can commenting on blogs make you sexier? A headline to a Dave Fleet blog post suggests that it just might.
OK, Dave is clearly trying to have some fun with the topic, but the real lesson from his post shouldn’t be missed: Commenting on other blogs is a good way to let the authors know you’re [...]

A post from Janet Fouts this morning pointed me to a running list of SXSW Interactive’s “Hot Ideas,” or 60 of the 2000-plus proposed panels that have voters’ attention at the moment.
From that list, here are four that resonate with me:

LifeChurch.tv – Reaching 2 Million+ With Technology – How one church (an online one, in [...]

Pimping for votes isn’t exactly my style.
But when it comes to getting a proposed SXSW Interactive 2010 panel through to the next round of consideration in a very crowded field–there are more than 2,000 potential panels (gulp) up for votes–I don’t know that I have any other choice.
And so it is that I shamelessly ask [...]