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Author Archives: Alex de Carvalho

SXSW Live blogging: Who Needs Venture Capital? Comments

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 [...]

SXSW Live blogging: ER 2.0 Comments

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 [...]

SXSW Live blogging: Story.Next – Narrating the Crowd Comments

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 [...]

Creating a marketing ecosystem for social media Comments

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 [...]

Soaring Comments

corcovado
Originally uploaded by alexdecarvalho

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. [...]

CNJ595: Social Media – Communication, Community, and Literacy Comments

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 [...]

Retrospective of South Florida’s startup community Comments

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.

In memoriam, Kashmir, 1998-2009 Comments

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. [...]

Rebuilding the World with Free Everything Comments

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. [...]

SXSW Keynote with Chris Anderson and Guy Kawasaki Comments

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 [...]

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