Oct

30

You, the online brand

We had another great meetup at RefreshMiami last night at Yahoo! Hispanic Americas. Adam Singer presented a “Coffee 2.0″ social media case study, Michael Montgomery spoke about microformats, I presented “You, the online brand“, attached below, and Davide Di Cillo presented his new Twitter social football service, Twootball:

Just why did Davide create Twootball? He says:

I was in an unfortunate bind: I am Italian and I love soccer. Of course, I wanted to create a Twitter application about soccer.

But then I realized that no one in Italy uses Twitter, and no one here watches soccer!

So I had to make a Twitter application about American football …

LOL!

The presentations were great and it was fun to catch up with everyone afterwards at Novecento’s.

“You, the online brand”

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Jul

9

Social Media Club forms interim board

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I’m honored to be counted among the people invited to give new impetus to the Social Media Club. Through conversations with companies, organizations, local universities, and interactive agencies, I’ve experienced the growing interest in social media and the increased demand for industry practitioners. By bringing together those who have an interest in seeing the industry improve and evolve, SMC provides the much needed forum for sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy. [1. We are in the process of relaunching Social Media Club in South Florida]

The interim board will establish the guidelines of this association, to create the necessary framework before the SMC grows further on a national and global level. Once the framework is agreed on, local boards will be established with interested corporate and non-corporate members. Please read the full press release if you’d like to know more.

As we collaborate on on organizing SMC for the future, Chris Heuer, founder of Social Media Club and Partner at The Conversation Group, acknowledges that:

“Our core mission will remain the same: promotion of media literacy; support of industry standards efforts such as Creative Commons licensing, Microformats, Data Portability and OpenID; discussion and promotion of ethical behavior; and sharing our knowledge among our members and the industry community at large.”

The newly named members of the interim board, some of whom are friends and others who I look forward to meeting, include:

Lee Aase – Social Media University, Global
Rohit Bhargava – Influential Marketing Blog and Personality Not Included
Richard Binhammer – RichardatDell
Michael Brito – Britopian and Conversations Matter
Chris Brogan – ChrisBrogan.com
Mike Chapman – Austin Social Media Club and Every Dot Connects
Megan Cole – MeganCole.org
Alex de Carvalho – alexdc.org and Social Object
Todd Defren – SHIFT Communications and www.pr-squared.com
Serena Ehrlich – Business Wire
Jason Falls – Social Media Explorer
Maggie Fox – Social Media Group
Jon Gatrell – spatiallyrelevant.org
Howard Greenstein – HowardGreenstein.com
Francine Hardaway – Stealthmode
Josh Hallett – Hyku
Annie Heckenberger – pikpr.blogspot.com and redspurs.com
Chuck Hester – Intellicontact
Chris Heuer – ChrisHeuer.com
Sherry Heyl – Mind Blogging
Tara Hunt – HorsePigCow
Bill Johnston – Forum One
Jennifer McClure – Society for New Communications Research
Mike McGrath – Dogpatch Dispatch
Jake McKee – CommunityGuy.com and Ant’s Eye View
Gregory Narain – SocialTwister
Lee Odden – Online Marketing Blog and TopRank
Erica OGrady – ReinventingErica.com and Peanut Butter Media
Jeremiah Owyang – Web Strategist
David Parmet – Marketing Begins At Home, LLC and PerkettPR
Jackie Peters – heavyBlog
Doug Pollei – pollei.com
Pierre-Yves Platini – Yoono
Douglas Pollei – Pollei.com
Connie Reece – Every Dot Connects and Austin Social Media Club
Chris Saad – ChrisSaad.com
Andy Sernovitz – Word of Mouth Marketing and GasPedal
Brian Solis – PR2.0
J.J. Toothman – jjtoothman.net and Red Pill
Todd Van Hoosear – Tech PR Gems
Des Walsh – Des Walsh dot Com
Kristie Wells – KristieWells.com

Jan

15

BarCampMiami participants and topics

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BarCampMiami will be held on February 28th from 4pm to 8pm, in conjunction with the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) Miami conference at the glorious Carnival Center of the performing arts. Since opening the registration last week, about 90 people have signed up. BarCampMiami attendees are entitled to 50% off the price of FOWA Miami and the first 100 get a free tshirt. The FOWA coupon code is available upon signing up for BarCamp.

What topics or services would you like to see presented? A few days after registration was opened, we added a question to the signup form on what types of topics people would like to see presented. Here are the answers:

1. Amazon Web Services 2. Free and Open Source for Geospatial

All kind of topics concerning web applications, mobile servcies, and maybe a little bit of semantic web…

Anything cool about web

Blogging

Community building and publishing related. Monetization on community sites, are subscriptions models dead?

development of mobile platforms

Entrepreneurship, Web Design and/or starting and promoting a startup.

ERP SOLUTIONS.

Flash Techniques and Animation. XML integration and a bit of Animation/Cartooning

I will be volunteering with project management.

interface design

landing page optimization profit models

Microformats

Microformats, APIs, state of the languages (Django, Rails, etc.), subscription/payment options

monetization of web apps and metrics.

New media. New technology. Art. Music. Software.

new technologies…

optimization

Photoshop Design to CSS

rapid app development, .NET libraries, AJAX, dynamically generating .swf files

Ruby on Rails development

Ruby, productivity tools, promoting a healthy technology community in South Florida, office ergonomics, does anyone still use Java anymore?

ruby, rails

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, electronics, robotics, graphic design.

SEM, Social network marketing

Server side and client side frameworks. Internationalization.

social networking, mobile, ventures

usability, information architecture

BarCampMiami presenters. The following people indicate they would like to present:

Alex Hillman Founder/Fearless Leader IndyHall
website: http://www.indyhall.org
blog: http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com
I’d love to present about coworking, if you’ll have me!

Blake Macleod Business Development PeopleBubble
website: http://www.peoplebubble.net
I would like to give a demonstration of PeopleBubble, a web app we are developing.

Brian Breslin CEO infinimedia
website: http://www.infinimedia.com
blog: http://webpl.us
Yes. Leveraging the social graph for fun and profit.

Brian Oberkirch Founder Small Good Thing
website: http://brianoberkirch.com
Designing for Portable Social Networks

Chris Saylor Senior Web Developer TodobebÈ
website: http://todobebe.com
blog: http://justhack.com
Possibly on Globalizing Your Web Applications

Christopher Haupt CTO Collective Knowledge Works Inc
website: http://buildingwebapps.com
blog: http://blog.buildingwebapps.com
We just launched BuildingWebApps.com as a service to the Ruby on Rails focused development and design community. Behind the scenes, we are building tech to organize information for communities in niche knowledge domains. Would love to show it to folks and find out what new learners most wish they had (or could point new practitioners to to get them up to speed).

Edward Toro Developer Scrapblog
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
Maybe. Intro to Adobe Flex? Agile development processes (Scrum)? IdeaFestival Do-Tank meeting style?

Elliot Murphy hacker Canonical
website: http://canonical.com
blog: http://elliotmurphy.com
Distributed revision control for web developers.

Greg Pederson Director of Technology Nsightdevelpoment.com
website: http://www.nsightdevelopment.com
I can talk about using CSS positioning along with one graphic file that contains all the sites reused images to save space, download times, etc.

Gregg Pollack Code Monkey RailsEnvy
website: http://www.RailsEnvy.com
blog: http://www.RailsEnvy.com
I’d like to do a presentation on Intro to Ruby on Rails. If there are too many people there already familiar I might switch to a more advanced topic like BDD/RSpec or ActiveRecord.
James Hoskins Software Engineer Avatar International. Inc.Undecided topic

Jason Perry Prime Mover Paint.itRed
website: http://paint.itred.org
blog: http://ambethia.com
Unsure, perhaps in the lightning round if there is one.

Joey Primiani Web Designer Freelance
website: http://www.joeyprimiani.com
blog: http://www.joeyprimiani.com
Yes, I plan to present new ways to visualize live analytics (other than Google Analytics) to get a better idea of what users like on the page. Or the latest (past two months) ajax libraries that include amazing ways for increased user interaction and experience.

John Rife CEO Interactive Expeditions
website: http://www.FindingAmerica.tv
blog: http://www.ALocalFolkus.com
Transmedia Story Creation: Telling stories with today’s tools – but as Ryan Price said above "It’s not about the tools"

Joshua Hoskins IT Director OrlandoJobs.com
website: http://www.orlandojobs.com
I would like to, at BarCamp Orlando I presented on GoogleBase. I may do that again or something with Ruby on Rails and Integration.

Kevin Murphy Managing Director Statiksoft, LLC
website: http://statiksoft.com
blog: http://kevinnmurphy.com
Doing a talk on either django templates, or decoupling django apps.

michael galpert C20 A.viary.com
website: http://A.viary.com
blog: http://A.viary.com/blog
deskop software vs online software or something along those lines

Michael Montgomery President Montgomery Studios, Inc.
website: http://montgomerystudios.com
blog: http://michaelmontgomery.net
Yes. Possible topics include web standards or accessibility.

Michael Nunez Founder Suluta Corp
website: http://www.suluta.com
Monetizing your work online.

Nathan Rambeck Founder Rambeck Group
website: http://rambeck.com
blog: http://rambeck.com/blog
Building social networks with Drupal.

Ptah Dunbar Web Designer / Developer
website: http://ptahdunbar.net
blog: http://ptahdunbar.com
no sure.. I could present a service if possible.

Ron Akanowicz Information Architect Softerware Consulting, PA
website: http://www.softerwareconsulting.com
I Haven’t been asked, but could…

Ryan Price Drupal Developer Petentials.com
website: http://petentials.com
blog: http://ryanpricemedia.com
Podcasting is not about Tools

Sean Murphy Web Application Architect Statiksoft, LLC
website: http://statiksoft.com
blog: http://IamSeanMurphy.com
I’d be happy to present on either Comet, or improving user experience with JS form validation.

Tantek «elik
website: http://tantek.com/
blog: http://tantek.com/
microformats lab – a hands-on lab for folks wanting either an introduction or help with adding microformats to their sites.

Tate Stickles Attorney Grossman Law Group
website: http://www.ecomputerlaw.com
I’d be interested on presenting on a legal topic relating to the interests of other attendees. Such as protecting intellectual property, privacy, etc.

Tyler Hunt
website: http://tylerhunt.com/
blog: http://blog.tylerhunt.com/
Possibly something on Amazon FPS.

William Couch Multimedia Artist Orlando Sentinel
website: http://orlandosentinel.com
blog: http://williamcouch.com
Possibly, about prototyping/generating Flash projects quickly for breaking news.

And myself, Alex de Carvalho Community and Marketing Dir. Scrapblog.com
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
blog: http://www.tapio.com
Object-centered sociality

More BarCampMiami participants. Here is the remainder of the participant list. Everyone is welcome to present:

Adam Teece Lead Designer Aberrant Designs, Inc
website: http://adamteece.com
blog: http://aberrantabsurdity.com

Alex Harris Creative Director Alex Designs LLC
website: http://www.alexdesigns.com
blog: http://www.alexdesigns.com/blog/

Alison Wadsworth Research Director Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com

Allan Branch design/ui less everything, inc
website: http://www.lesseverthing.com
blog: b.lesseverything.com

Bruno Miranda Developer Ninja Todobebe
website: http://www.bopia.com
blog: http://www.brunomiranda.com

Carlos Granier-Phelps Social Media Strategist RED66.com
website: http://red66.com/
blog: http://technosailor.com/category/espanol/

cathy colmenares Sr Director, Integrated Marketing Todobebe Inc.
website: http://todobebe.com
blog: http://mitodobebe.com

Chris Campbell Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com

Cristopher Carillo Owner Tequesta Enterprises
website: http://www.linkspro.com

Daniel Dye
Daniel Kirsch
Danny Sanchez Senior Producer Orlando Sentinel
website: http://www.orlandosentinel.com
blog: http://www.journalistopia.com

David Moore Music Teacher Broward Schools
David Parmet Owner Marketing Begins at Home, LLC
website: http://www.parmet.net/pr
blog: http://www.parmet.net/pr

David Rhugnanan Web Desinger Trinity Effects Inc.
website: http://trinityeffects.com

Diego Sanz Web Consultant Sanz Consulting
website: http://brickellmiamicondos.com/real_estate/home/

Eduardo Henriques Managing Partner Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com

Frank Deoleo
Giannina Amato Team Leader Nobox
website: http://copywwwriter.wordpress.com/
blog: http://copywwwriter.wordpress.com/

Giovanny Gutierrez Dir. of Interactive Media Tinsley Advertising
website: http://www.tinsley.com
blog: http://www.giogutierrez.com

Guilherme Ambros Digital Solutions Director Wunderman, Young & Rubicam
website: http://www.wunderman.com

Gus Goodall Senior Designer British Army
website: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
blog: http://www.armynet.mod.uk

Jason Baptiste CEO Publictivity
website: http://publictivity.com

Jason Hawkins Video guy Make Film Work
website: http://www.makefilmwork.com
blog: http://www.solmi.net

Jennifer Cardew Graduate Student North Texas
website: http://www.twitter.com/jencardew
blog: http://www.anthroblogs.org/jcardew

Jordan Fulghum Scrapblog
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
blog: http://blog.scrapblog.com

Jorge Perez Director of Marketing Alienware.com
website: http://www.alienware.com

Josue Rodriguez Web Developer
Judson Collier Macteens Magazine
website: http://macteens.com
blog: http://judsoncollier.com

Justin Tarrants Biz Dev Government
Katie Novak
ken scott UNIX network security admin prolexic
website: http://www.prolexic.com

Kevin Hale Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com

Kevin Wiesner
Marco Castro CEO MTEK
website: http://mtek.tv

Marco Castro CEO MTEK
website: http://mtek.tv

Marco Castro
Maria Bouza Project Manager dotCMS
website: http://www.dotcms.org

Maria de los Angeles Lemus Wily Wordsmith & Rogue Cartoonist Freelance
website: http://wilywordsmith.blogspot.com
blog: http://sexandthebeach.blogspot.com

Matias Blazevic Sr. Copywriter Y&R Brands
website: http://printpreview.wordpress.com/
blog: http://printpreview.wordpress.com/

Meagan Fisher User Interface Designer Helium Report
website: http://www.heliumreport.com
blog: http://www.iheartthe.com/blog

Michael Rose IT Manager
Naomi Butterfield Web Applications Developer ADS
website: http://www.techcfl.com
blog: http://rorblog.techcfl.com/

Nate Roise Founder Magnetic Properties
website: http://www.urbanhoming.com

Nathaniel McNamara Associate HIG Ventures
website: http://www.higventures.com

Nick Dominguez
website: http://www.nickdominguez.com
blog: http://nickdominguez.com

Nicolas Scafuro Latam Search Manager Yahoo Inc.
website: http://www.yahoo.com

Pablo Godel
Paul Kruger PHP Consultant Speeduneed Inc
website: http://miamiphp.org

Rick Bartl Managing Director, Marketing FedEx
website: http://www.fedex.com

Robert Meireles
Roberto Bouza
Ryan Campbell Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com

Stani Henriques Art Director Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com

Steven Bristol programmer Less Everything, inc.
website: http://www.lesseverything.com
blog: b.lesseverything.com

Tim Spence Senior .NET Developer Scrapblog
website: http://scrapblog.com
blog: http://blog.scrapblog.com

Timothy Kersey
website: http://www.twitter.com/entangledstate
blog: http://friendfeed.com/entangledstate

Zac Brown Programmer N/A
website: http://zacbrown.org
blog: http://blog.zacbrown.org

BarCampMiami is made possible through the generous contribution of our sponsors:

Ourscene: http://www.ourscene.com
FunAdvice: http://www.funadvice.com
Global Roaming: http://www.celtrek.com
Less Everything: http://www.lesseverything.com
RailsEnvy: http://www.railsenvy.com
The Boaters: http://www.theboaters.com
Myxer: http://www.myxertones.com
ServerGrove Networks: http://www.servergrove.com
DC Media Graphics: http://www.dcmediagraphics.com
infinimedia: http://www.infinimedia.com
Hyku: http://www.hyku.com
Victoria & Associates: http://www.victoriaassociates.com
Todobebe: http://www.todobebe.com
Scrapblog: http://www.scrapblog.com

And our partners!:

FOWA: http://www.futureofwebapps.com
RefreshMiami: http://www.refreshmiami.org

Nov

7

Your watercooler was never like this

Filed Under Social media | 6 Comments

I’ve been using Twitter for the better part of the year and for the most part, it’s been fun. With time, Twitter grew in significance and overtook email, IM, blogging, and photo-sharing as a principal means of communication and expression. I find there’s a certain elegance and challenge to expressing yourself in 140 characters or less and even more so when it takes 2 or 3 succint messages to complete your thoughts.

Recently, communicating on Twitter has gained additional importance as it’s helped me and my friends get things done, in real life.

When Permission Marketing meets the Cluetrain

I teach a class on Social Media at the University of Miami School of Communication. With the students, we spoke about getting some local bloggers to meet the class and talk about their experiences. After a quick tweet to local bloggers , @vicequeenmaria, @cgranier, @dearYvette and @Fanless expressed interest. Two weeks later, we enjoyed pizza and soft drinks over an excellent conversation on blogging and Twitter. Based on that discussion, a music blogger who I contacted through Facebook got started on Twitter as @bangthebox.

"Twitter is where Permission Marketing meets the Cluetrain Manifesto; you opt-in to a great conversation"-Alex de Carvalho

Could this meetup have been organized another way, say, through Facebook? Of course. But just sending a single message on Twitter and getting a quasi-immediate response from interested parties was easier and less of a commitment for all. Rather than having to opt-out by replying to a message from me in Facebook, local bloggers could opt-in by expressing their interest in the request I had sent.

To extend this principle further, when you follow someone, you are opting-in to get their tweets. When you participate in your friends’ timeline, you have opted-in to a great conversation with the people that you have chosen to follow. It can’t get more spam-free than this. This underscores a second principle, that "My social media is not your social media", which I’ll blog later.

Introductions

Another example occurred through direct, private messaging on Twitter. @technosailor contacted me to ask if I or someone I knew would be interested in guest writing on his blog, in Spanish. I recommended @cgranier and a fortnight later, they were collaborating. To be fair, the initial direct messages were through Twitter and the introduction was through email (I haven’t managed to get email completely out of my life, yet

And I think this earned me a round of drinks

Fundraising

The last example is perhaps the most significant, since it entails raising funds* for BarCampMiami in February 2008. I sent a quick tweet on how BarCamp was shaping up and six hours later had signed up an additional sponsor (not counting my own company). And ten minutes after that tweet, two more sponsors came on board, @hyku and @sass. I still need six more sponsors, which I’ll do in a more traditional way, but it was great to quickly get an initial set of sponsors "who get it" on board. I may try a fundraising request on Seesmic first before I contact some of the bigger local companies in Miami.

*Note: BarCampMiami sponsorship is a flat $250 per sponsor.

The Watercooler (Twittercooler?)

At the workplace, Twitter is slower to catch on. A couple of my colleagues are semi-active and we signal each other through Twitter, but I suspect my volume of tweets can be hard to keep up with unless they’ve grabbed my RSS feed. Even so, since most of it is time sensitive, tweets can lose context when read much later. But that’s what it’s like at the watercooler, "you had to be there".

And when I was there, I got breaking news on Twitter about the earthquake last week (the "twitterquake"), Brazil hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Red Sox sweep, which occurred during the FOWA Miami Geek Dinner.

On a more daily basis, I get excellent link recommendation from @scobleslinkblog and others, a chance to meet up when travelling, as I did with @leahjones, @gapingvoid and @hyku in Chicago, getting questions answered, sending/receiving beta (and alpha) invites, for example, for Seesmic and for Mailplane, and just plain socializing.

You watercooler was never like this

Technorati Tags: twitter, collaboration, gtd, lifehacks, social media, watercooler

Aug

22

UM CVJ 596 – Social Media for collaboration, community building and citizen journalism

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I’m honored to have been invited to teach at the University of Miami as an adjunct professor this fall term. I figure I’ll be busier than ever — what with work at startup Scrapblog and not infrequent travel — but I’m confident that teaching will be a hugely satisfying experience and I very much look forward to it. The beginning of the semester is fast approaching and the first class will be this Thursday. I had prepared a syllabus a few months ago, but recently revised it since some things had already changed in the ’social media’ space. Here is the revised curriculum, with dates. This may move to a class blog or wiki within the next week.

School of Communication

University of Miami

Web 2.0: Social Media for collaboration, community building and citizen journalism

UM CVJ 596

Fall Semester 2007

Alex de Carvalho

Office location: 2013, please request appointment

SYLLABUS

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE:

In a few short years, the Web 2.0 has profoundly changed the communication landscape. With the advent of new social media tools, more and more people are participating and engaging in the conversation online. As former members of the audience become the new creators of content, corporations, institutions and media organizations increasingly lose control of the message. After an overview of how and why we got here, this course will guide you through social networks, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, media sharing, lifestreams, tagging and other social media tools. Effective communication requires using these tools. Since these services are so new and continually changing, students’ prior knowledge about the internet is not relevant.

The course will explore the new media landscape in terms of online expression, social networking, identity management, community building and citizen journalism. We will learn from case studies and invited speakers, new effective strategies and applications of social media tools. Required readings expose students to current readings in social media and provide a base from which to explore their interests. Lectures by the instructor resituate these readings in terms of broader concerns, with specific examples and case-studies of emerging technologies and media.

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

The class is open to all and there are no prerequisites for this class.

MATERIALS FEES:

Students will not be required to purchase any materials or books and all required reading will either be handed out or available online for free.

ASSIGNMENTS/COURSEWORK:

Weblog – 25% of final grade

Students will start and maintain individual blogs with a minimum of four postings per week, whether text, video or audio or some combination, for the duration of the course.

Content: commentary about a media website. Students will be expected to post comments on each others’ blogs. The blog will be evaluated on

the quality of engagement with themes of the class
clarity of expression
cultivation of community through regular posts and comments.

Instruction in creating blogs and in the practice of blogging will be provided.

Pseudonymous blogging is permitted.

Wiki– 10% of final grade

Each student will edit an entry in Wikipedia and contribute materially to an existing wiki.

Instruction in creating wikis and editing Wikipedia will be provided.

Pseudonymous Wikipedia editing is permitted.

Social Bookmarking – 10% of final grade

Each student will write start and maintain an individual social bookmarking service on either del.icio.us, ma.gnolia.com or tumblr, with a minimum of four postings per week.

Instruction in editing social bookmarking services will be provided.

Pseudonymous social bookmarking is permitted.

Lifestreams – 10% of final grade

Each student will write start and maintain a "lifestream" or "microblog" service for the duration of the course on either Twitter, Jaiku or both, with a minimum of four postings per week.

Instruction in editing Twitter and Jaiku will be provided.

Pseudonymous lifestreaming is permitted.

Participation – 25% of final grade

Students are expected to do all the required readings for the course, to attend classes regularly, to have completed the reading in advance of classes and to participate actively in discussion. Recognition will be given to those who demonstrate consistent improvement over the course of the term.

Presentation – 20% of final grade

Students will choose two readings and present the content of the materials to class in a presentation (10-15 minutes). These presentations will summarize the material and then develop additional themes for further discussion. Students will be graded on the clarity of presentation and the level of understanding of the readings under discussion.

Due Date: end of term

TEXTS:

Readings will be as current as possible and the instructor will regularly assign materials. In addition, students will be responsible for keeping up to date with the course’s blogroll which will be presented in the beginning of the semester. Handouts may be provided in addition, in the class and students are responsible for reading assigned materials and the blogroll prior to each class.

COURSE TOPICS OUTLINE

Week of August 20^th, class session August 23rd

Course introduction, overview and objectives. What has changed online, how and why we got here and what it means for the media, for corporations – and for you.

Week of August 27^th, class session August 28th

The read – write web: from consuming media to creating content. Blogging basics, RSS feeds and feedreaders. What information overload? Introducing microblogging and lifestreaming. Creating and maintaining a blog. Wordpress, Typepad, Technorati.

Week of August 27^th, class session August 30th

What are wikis and how do they work. Wiki basics and wiki editing. Case stuides and examples of wiki use for reference, for nonprofits and for the media. Wikipedia overview and discussion.

Week of September 3rd, class session September 4th

Lifestreams overview and discussion. Peripheral vision, presence and introduction to object-centered sociality.

Week of September 3rd, class session September 6th

Media-sharing overview and discussion. How and why YouTube and Flickr got so popular. Case studies, controversies and future directions. What is Pownce and will people use it?

Week of September 10th, class session September 11^th

Social Bookmarking overview and basic notions. The role of Firefox and open source extensions. Creating a del.icio.us or tumblr account. Discussion on crowdsourcing and how and why people collaborate.

Week of September 10th, class session September 13^th

Social Networking overview and discussion. The Social Graph and social network portability. Mini-feeds. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Flickr. Future directions.

Week of September 17th, class session September 18^th

The F8 developer platform and Facebook applications.

Week of September 17th, class session September 20^th

Other forms of online collaboration. IM, SMS, VoIP, shared documents and mobile social software. Online Identity, reputation, pseudonimity and privacy discussion. OpenID, ClaimID, Ziki. Social network portability revisited.

Week of September 24th, class session September 25^th

The rise and rise of Social Media and what it means for corporations, institutions and the mainstream media.

Week of September 24th, class session September 27^th

Community building online: case studies from individuals, companies and the media.

Week of October 1st, class session October 2^nd

Social Objects and object-centered sociality. What is Social Object? What makes for a good social object and how to create sociality around objects.

Week of October 1st, class session October 4^th

Community building: is this the new, new marketing? What is community management? Why is community management important … or can we do without it? Case studies.

Week of October 8th, class session October 9^th

Community building: social media tools for building better and more engaged local communities. Social web tools and services for non-profits, for disaster relief and for local news reporting.

Week of October 8th, class session October 11^th

The new world of media: is online the future or is it already here? What are the current winning models? How is mainstream media affected by the social web?

Week of October 15th, class session October 16^th

The new world of media: case studies from new initiatives as well as from the mainstream media

Week of October 15th, class session October 18^th

The new world of media: best practices, resources, collaboration and ethics in online journalism. Mashups and Open Source.

Week of October 22nd, class session October 23^rd

The new world of media: initiatives in citizen journalism. Case studies on Now Public, Newsvine, OhMyNews and other sites.

Week of October 22nd, class session October 25^th

The new world of media: opinion leaders and influencers. Other initiatives in citizen journalism.

Week of October 29th, class session October 30^th

The new world of media: online collaboration in gaming and mmorpgs. What lessons can be applied to the world of work.

Week of October 29th, class session November 1^st

The new world of media: case studies in mobile services and tools for citizen journalism.

Week of November 5th, class session November 6^th

The new world of media: open discussion on citizen journalism. What does the news organization of the future look like? Is there a role for citizen journalists? How can social media tools be used more effectively?

Week of November 5th, class session November 8^th

The new world of media: continued open discussion on citizen journalism. What does the news organization of the future look like? Is there a role for citizen journalists? How can social media tools be used more effectively?

Week of November 12th, class session November 13^th

Week of November 12th, class session November 15^th

Week of November 19th, class session November 20^th

Student presentations and class discussion

Week of November 26th, class session November 27^th

Student presentations and class discussion

Week of November 26th, class session November 29^th

Student presentations and class discussion

FINAL EXAM PERIOD: Thursday December 6^th 8:00-10:30pm

Feb

23

BarCamp Miami Memories and Recap

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BarCamp Miami came and went but the memories remain excellent.

Before talking about the event, though, a very well deserved round of gratitude is due:

first and foremost, to Professor Kim Grinfeder and the University of Miami School of Communication. The School programmed BarCamp into its annual Communication Week program and supplied the venue, projectors, and free wi-fi, essential for the live demos. Kim in particular was a driving force behind BarCamp Miami and he secured the sponsorship for the event, which allowed us to order T-shirts and catering. We also appreciate the help of Sanjeev Chatterjee, the School’s Vice-Dean, and Lelen Bourgoignie-Robert, Jim Virga and others at UM who helped make BarCamp a reality.
to Nick Dominguez and Brian Breslin. Brian created RefreshMiami last April and has done more than anyone to get the web/tech/design community started and going in Miami. We owe him for his vision and his execution. Brian also provided guidance and support when the idea of holding a BarCamp Miami first occurred and helped select the logo. Nick has been a key driver of RefreshMiami and took time out of his busy schedule to help us with the banners and in publicizing BarCamp Miami.
Finally, to our sponsors Aurora Ventures, Knight Center for International Media, ServerGrove Networks and Scrapblog, where I work, as well as to our suppliers, Gateways Unlimited and Once Upon A Party.

So how did the event go? Douglas Hanks from The Miami Herald wrote about us in the Business section:

So it goes at BarCamp, a sort of viral convention with no schedule, featured speakers, or agenda until the attendees themselves create one. For South Florida’s first BarCamp, organizer Alex de Carvalho posted a notice on blogs he and his friends run, as well as a collaborative ”wiki” Web page dedicated to BarCamps held around the world.

And from this "viral" word of mouth, about 60 people showed up. The format of BarCamp is "open-source" in the sense that anyone can present and indeed everyone is encouraged to participate. We had three areas with projectors and four time slots to present, and of these twelve slots, 11 got filled in:

Mike Gibaldi talked about Businesswire.com’s new "social media" and search engine optimized press release offering
Michael Froomkin presented the security and privacy challenges of getting municipal wi-fi in Miami-Dade. Now’s the time to get involved to avoid restrictions on your access to wi-fi!
Ruben Duque created digital graffiti with a laser pointer!
David Hoff drove from Naples to present IMified, which helps you manage everything through your IM client (and then he drove back!)
The Calleiro brothers demoed ourscene.com
Leonard Boord presented The Gorb reputation manager
Nick Dominguez and Ant Bryan spoke about an enhanced download standard for bittorrent, metalink
Donald Llopis presented python and pygame for rapid prototyping of video games
Caleb Elston spoke about usnacks.com, which helps busy college students buy their snacks
Tim Hoyt showed us picturemarketing.com while Cortney Mills took our pictures
I gave a live demo of Scrapblog.com. We offer a rich, enhanced photo and video sharing experience and will launch in three weeks

Update: Blaine Zuver presented as well. He spoke about ArcticTropic Blog and Metroblogging Miami

Besides the presenters listed above and people mentioned earlier, I also met and spoke to Benjamin Li, Jason L. Baptiste, Francisco Martin, Maria de los Angeles Lemus, Danay, Jackie Paz, Caleb Elston, Blaine Zuver, Denise R. Jacobs, Jorge Barroso and Eduardo Henriques.

We are also grateful that some venture capitalists showed up, including from Longworth, Aurora Ventures and H.I.G. This is very reassuring and I hope we’ll see you participate in future events.

What’s next? We hope to do another BarCamp soon. How soon? It’s up to you. And who’s "we"? It could be anyone. BarCamps can be run on any theme and anyone can take the initiative. And if anyone would like to do another BarCamp Miami on web/tech/design, please do so. The BarCamp wiki is open to all and the BarCampMiami blog is open to more authors.

We would also like to create a more formal conference, called webpl.us. Why more formal? Because we would like to have speakers from across the US, from Europe and from Latin America present, and when you fly in people and pay for their hotels, you need to ensure attendance, cover your costs and provide your speakers with a forum.

Which brings us back to running a BarCamp. The experience is exhilarating and there is a definite adrenalin rush to organizing one, and it stays in your system. Why? Because after all the preparation, you really don’t know if anyone is going to show up … and BarCamps are all about people.

And everyone that showed up have each other to thank for making the event so enjoyable.

See you soon, I hope!

Here are some links:

Cross-posted to tapio.com, RefreshMiami, BarCamp Miami

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