This has been a turbulent year by most accounts, so I spent Thanksgiving remembering those who stuck by me through thick and thin:
Brian Breslin has been a constant friend as well as a partner in organizing RefreshMiami, BarCampMiami and building StartPR. When I struck out on my own earlier this year, [...]
Categories: Personal
Tagged: community, friendship, LinkedIn, mobile monday, pay it forward, refreshmiami, social media club, thanks, thanksgiving
I’ve published a curriculum for social media literacy at the college and graduate level.
This is based on my experience teaching the subject at the University of Miami School of Communication and on the presentations and workshops I’ve given. The coursework and some of the topics are also inspired by Howard Rheingold’s [...]
Categories: Social media
Tagged: citizen journalism, curriculum, LinkedIn, pr 2.0, social media, social networking, social software, syllabus, web 2.0
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 [...]
Categories: Social media
Tagged: alex de carvalho, alexdc, blogs, brand, business, LinkedIn, networks, online, professional, refreshmiami, social media, social networking, web 2.0
BlogOrlando gets better each year, I’m very glad I went. I of course enjoyed reconnecting with friends who flew in from across the country, seeing the Orlando tech community again, and meeting new people.
One of the highlights was getting firsthand case studies from the teams that manage(d) social media at [...]
Categories: Events
Tagged: blogorlando, blogorlando08, community, conference, event, florida, LinkedIn, orlando, South Florida, tech
Sergeant Jalonen must have spent his childhood in a concrete sandbox
After I graduated from college, I completed mandatory military service in the Finnish Army. The year-long experience yielded intense experiences, lifelong friendships and lots of stories. One of them comes to mind: Jalonen and I were the first two soldiers from [...]
Categories: Social Object
Tagged: community, event, flickr, LinkedIn, miami, social media, Social Object, tech
My previous post about "social objects", described how your profile, what you publish and what share online determines the impression you make and provides topics or hooks for others to get in touch with you. The term social object is a convenient shorthand for describing such hooks, which represent many of [...]
Categories: Mobile, Social Object, Social media
Tagged: community, event, LinkedIn, marketing, social media, Social Object, tech
First, a bit of history
Before talking about social objects as accessories for online impression management, I wanted to surface a bit of history about the term, "Social Object".
There’s been a lot of talk lately about object-centered sociality, which can be thought of as "the reason people connect and socialize with each [...]
Categories: Social Object, Social media
Tagged: alexdc, community, conference, flickr, LinkedIn, marketing, Social Object, tech
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