At this rate my next post will be in early October… I’m going to use a challenge from my friend Liz Strauss to jump start my blogging. I’ve been focusing a lot of my energy on getting The Community Roundtable up and running, but I find writing on my own is a great outlet, one [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been lucky to meet and/or re-connect with a great group of people. From the Innovator’s Road Trip to the long weekend at SXSW in Austin it was an intense week+ of networking. I’d like to share a bit about the folks I met and encourage you to reach out [...]

This post is probably impossible… I should just stop now. How am I going to wrap up everything from the Innovator’s Road Trip and South-by-SouthWest in one post? The truth is I can’t… it’s just too big/too much and I’d never be able to do it justice. What I’ve decided to do it wrap it [...]

The shiny, not-so-new toy is community, enabled with social media/networking tools and everyone wants some. Blogs, forums, microsharing, ideas all rolled into a community… you name it and businesses are clamoring for it. Social media platform providers are lining up to sell you a host of features and solutions to satisfy that craving. But technology [...]

It’s a time honored tradition to take stock after the New Year and come up with areas to improve in the coming year. With that in mind, I’m taking a hard look at my use of social media in 2008 and coming up with goals for 2009. 1. First of all more blog posts. I’ve [...]

I’m always excited to hear of big companies jumping into social media (even if they’re not a Mzinga client). When I noticed Jeremiah Owyang mention this morning on Twitter that Oracle had launched an “ideas” site, I just had to take a look. It’s great they’re putting themselves out there and time will tell if [...]