There are days when I wake up to the same blase stream of information filling my feed reader, and then there are days when I am genuinely excited about what’s flowing through the web of tubes known as the internet.  Yesterday was one of the latter category.  
You see, along with the many various hobbies [...]

We had a fantastic Topics on Fire podcast last night on TalkShoe discussing the poverty gap and the internet and how social media could help bridge it. Because the audio recording had feedback issues, I’m doing a recap here in case we can’t get that fixed. The conversation lasted an hour and will go into [...]

Episode One will be on Sunday night, July 27, at 11:00 PM Eastern Time and will deal with the poverty gap and social media and what we might do to effect change as a social media community. You can read more about it over on Profy.
A topic as big as this deserves a panel [...]

I just added an UptownUncorked page to FaceBook so that you have another way to find us on one of your favorite social media sites. Have fun!

The latest trend in the Twitterverse seems to be one of rules, rules, rules. This trend toward a kind of social media home owner’s association is driven in part by ego and part by a desire for control and power, and it goes against the grain of social media.
Social media and the internet it plays [...]

Over the past 48 hours I conducted a poll of Twitter users. Unscientific? Absolutely. Generic? Of course. And yet I was surprised at the results. What did I ask on Thursday? “Which issue is bigger to you? Gender gap/social media, race/social media, poverty gap/social media or generation gap/social media.”
I must admit I picked a hard [...]

My session at PodCamp3 Boston was called Breaking Into the Conversation, Busting the Clique. It was about how to use social media to its fullest potential for you. Basically, how to be heard online and what social media tools are your best option.
So many people assume that to be a success when using social media, [...]

PodCamp3 Boston is this weekend, and I’ll be there both Saturday and Sunday attending sessions, learning from my peers and networking. Please come find me if you are going to attend. If you want to know where I am just Twitter me @geechee_girl and I’ll let you know.
I’m also honored to be hosting a session [...]

Though I’ve said almost incessantly that social media will, in the very near future, start migrating as a whole to mobile devices, it is always nice to see a little evidence to back that theory up.  iSuppli, an analyst group focused on interpreting trends in electronics, claims that the massive adoption of smartphones and internet-friendly [...]

Leslie will be at Web Innovators tonight (Tuesday) in Cambridge, MA, and will be participating in PodCamp3 Boston all weekend, including presenting a session on Sunday. Be sure and come say hello!
Triston will attending the TwinTech event in Washington, DC on Thursday.
We both have interviews coming up in national publications, which we will link to [...]