Who are the best, brightest, and most innovative social media users in Texas? The Austin American-Statesman, my hometown newspaper, wants to know — and will share the community’s recommendations as part of its first-ever Texas Social Media Awards.

To find out more about the awards, as well as the Statesman’s own efforts in social media, I [...]

Looking for a productive way to spend your Friday afternoon (or late morning, if you live on US West Coast)? Then you won’t want to miss today’s FIR Live on BlogTalkRadio, beginning at 2:00pm Eastern, as co-hosts Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson engage an erstwhile panel in a discussion of the recent Forrester Research report, [...]

As Mikal not so subtly points out, my blogging here has been sparse the past few months.
But this is not a “sorry, I haven’t posted in a while” post. Instead, it’s a pointer to my newish work blog over at SocialVoice, the community site my employer, LiveWorld, relaunched in September. I’ve been posting plenty of [...]

My gig as the social media evangelist at LiveWorld has me bouncing around the conference circuit this fall. Here’s a list of events I’m scheduled to attend and/or speak at over the next couple of months:
TechCrunch/Austin Ventures Meetup
September 25, 2008
Austin, TX
Attendee
PRSA San Antonio: New Media is Now seminar
October 2, 2008
San Antonio, TX
Speaker
Forum One Online Community [...]

crayon’s Greg Verdino has a good blog post up that’s aimed squarely at those of us who hang inside the social media bubble.
His message? While we spending time salivating over, chatting up, Twittering about the latest shiny new object or social tool, many of our potential clients are still learning to use the so-called “last [...]

I’m pleased to announce that on Wednesday, July 16, I’ll be stepping into an exciting new role as a social media evangelist with LiveWorld, Inc, a San Jose, California-based company that builds and manages online communities and social networks.

The job offers me the opportunity to do what I’m passionate about: explore, write, and talk about [...]

At the Community 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas last month, I joined forces with Jim Storer and Aaron Strout from Mzinga (disclosure: my employer, Monster, is a Mzinga client) in recording and producing a series of podcast conversations with some of the event’s presenters and attendees.
I wanted to share some of the details behind our [...]

I’m ever so grateful to Feedburner for making it drop-dead easy to port my subscribers from my old blog to this one.
All I had to do was update the “original feed” field (see the second box in the screenshot below) in my former blog’s Feedburner account to be sure it reflected the RSS feed of [...]

… I don’t know to hop into the comment queue to read and approve your comments (Because of the terrible problem I have with spam, I need to manually approve all first-time commenters).
Now I’ve probably missed a checkbox somewhere, but there appears to be a bug in the notification process (WordPress is meant to send [...]

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 [...]