Robert Scoble over at Building 43 has an interesting interview with “Allen Stern, editor of CenterNetworks in New York, offers a new idea with CloudContacts for making business cards useful”
I like the way this helps you to connect your friends and contacts with your on-line presence. For instance
After we receive the cards, we turn them into contacts you can import into your email application, you can view your contacts online and export the contacts in a variety of formats. For instance there is “where possible, one-click connect to your contacts on business social networks including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter”

Oh, this whole world of social media and social networks and network fatigue is ticking over so very quickly when you’ve been called an influential, anything with -rati at the end of it (digerati, twitterati…), or as I was recently called, Twitistoric.  The cycle of interest, adoption, mastering, abandoning is happening at a mind numbing pace.
Because of that rapid pace, some people are claiming that the Death of the Influentials will happen sooner than later. Some digerati (Guy Kawasaki, Robert Scoble to name a few) are claiming that the best way to create an internet strategy is to obtain …read more

Millions of people are converging onto the city of Washington DC for the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. It’s a watershed moment – we all remember where we were at the end of Apartheid, the day the Berlin Wall came down, and, we’ll all remember where we were when President Obama was sworn in.
Nadia Nascimento, the head of Vancouver’s User Generated Video Contest Platform, memelabs, is in Washington DC for Obama’s inauguration. "I realized that we were part of a story." Nascimento came up with the plan to record users hopes dreams and allowing them …read more

Back when my people started talking about going to BlogWorldExpo, I knew I had to find a way to get there. So, I started thinking about ways to do that. I was talking to Lucretia one night and she suggested that ideablob might be interested in some content creation and visibility at the event.
So, I put together a little profile, a little presentation and a little bit of a suggestion and sent it off to darling Annie.
A few days later, I had an agreement, I had a plan an Annie and I were going over talking points.
So, next Thursday, …read more

Seriously. We live in a world where women outnumber men in industries like public relations, marketing and even social media. Yes, there’s lots of great men in social media, but there’s a gazillion women.
We’ve, at least in my opinion, pretty much leveled the playing field for any woman who wants to get out there and actually play. Sure, it might mean you get your hands dirty or break a nail (and yes, I am using sexist metaphors on purpose), but hell, that’s what soap and manicurists are for.
I am a woman who knows how to promote myself, how …read more

BWE, as it’s affectionately known in my circle, is coming up in September. Together, with Kristen King, a fellow b5 blogger, I entered a contest to win airfare to Vegas and hotel so we could attend BWE.
There was international coordination, crude Photoshop images, an “argument” “break ins” and a subsequent “make up”. It was complicated and required some serious skype conversations to get it all organized.
To even show you these, I have to give you a bit of explanation. See, Ed is the b5 mascot. He’s our social director and various other things. Ed’s the man. Ed’s also …read more

So recently, I was hosted at Morton’s recently. It was amazing and wonderful, and I will be giving you a full review shortly on my local site, Haute Culture.
I tweeted it, and I blogged about it. My twitter feed had a very unexpected result.
I tweeted that I offered to marry the general manager of Morton’s. His name is Josh. His wife tweeted back to me that all I had to do was flirt. She has since told me she was terrified to send me that tweet because she didn’t know me. And yet, she did.
She and me started …read more