This is a live post from a SXSW panel on Venture Capital, March 15th, 2010
Only a fraction of business financing comes from Sand Hill Road. Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big [...]
Categories: Startup
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- Monday, March 15th, 2010 – 1:35 pm
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- By Alex de Carvalho
This is a live post from a SXSW roundtable on ER 2.0, March 14th, 2010 Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives–treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Sunday, March 14th, 2010 – 11:58 am
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- By Alex de Carvalho
This is a live post from a SXSW panel about StoryCorps, March 14th , 2010
StoryCorps was built on the principle that ordinary people have extraordinary stories to share – you just need to ask. Social networking and hand-held technology now enables communities to capture and distribute these stories with unprecedented scale [...]
Categories: Social media
Tagged: sxsw, sxswi
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- Sunday, March 14th, 2010 – 10:00 am
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- By Alex de Carvalho
The following is paraphrased from a presentation made by Allison Cerra, Chief Marketing Officer, Americas Region – Alcatel-Lucent, at the Social Networking Conference 2010 in Miami, FL.
Consider the following identified marketing challenges in the current online social media ecosystem:
Service providers are constrained: Today, just 20 households consume more broadband than the [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Thursday, January 28th, 2010 – 4:58 pm
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- By Alex de Carvalho
corcovado
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One of the advantages of traveling on a major holiday is that no one else does, and so my flight to Rio was empty as my calendar turned its page to 2010 at 30,000 feet.
Corcovado (the Christ the Redeemer statue) is an inspiration to many for religious reasons. [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: guidance, inspiration, key words, soar, soaring, Travel
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- Friday, January 1st, 2010 – 6:22 pm
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- By Alex de Carvalho
University of Miami – School of Communication
CNJ595: Web 2.0: Social Media: Communication, Community, and Literacy
Spring Semester 2010
SYLLABUS
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE:
In a few short years, social media has profoundly changed the online communication landscape. With the advent of new tools and platforms, more and more people are publishing and participating in conversations [...]
Categories: Social media
Tagged: cnj595, communication, course, journalism, new media, pr 2.0, s10cnj595, social media, syllabus, um, university of miami
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- Monday, November 16th, 2009 – 3:53 pm
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- By Alex de Carvalho
RefreshMiami’s monthly meetups gather 130 participants on average and have become a hub to meet new people, create friendships, and find new job opportunities.
Categories: Events
Tagged: barcamp, barcamp miami, barcampmiami, conference, event, group, meetup, mobile monday miami, momo, momomiami, refresh miami, refreshmiami, smcsf, social media club, social media club south florida, South Florida, startup, technology
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- Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 – 6:20 am
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- By Alex de Carvalho
You brought joy to those you touched. You had an irresistible charm borne of innocent mischief. You saw yourself as more human than cat, and made your presence felt despite not speaking much. You participated in everything and your curiosity knew no bounds. You were a peacemaker and a soother. [...]
Categories: Personal
Tagged: cat, Dying of the Light, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, kashmir, love, Personal
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- Friday, May 15th, 2009 – 8:08 am
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- By Alex de Carvalho
Panel on Rebuilding the World with Free Everything, with:
Doc Searls – Linux Journal
Katherine Druckman – Linux Journal
William Hurley – evil genius project
Chris Anderson – Wired Magazine
Dave Taylor – filmBUZZ
“Free” is the future of business. Steve Larsen says the world has more than 500,000 open source code bases now — all free. [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 – 4:36 pm
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- By Alex de Carvalho
Keynote session at SXSW, with:
Chris Anderson – Wired Magazine
Guy Kawasaki – Alltop
In 2006, Chris Anderson introduced the concept of the Long Tail. His soon-to-be released book will talk about the power of free. Will his theories stand up to the tough questions of venture Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki?
If you [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 – 3:11 pm
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- By Alex de Carvalho
