This is a question I ponder frequently. Have you focused on building a micro network and a nationwide network, or have you isolated yourself by walling off your garden?
I’m big on the idea of helping people and networking at a hyper local level. I also believe that your network is most effective if it also [...]

You may recall my project with several other smart, talented ladies: Strong Women in Tech. If you have been wondering how that is progressing, I’ll tell you right now that it has been stalled in implementation by one major element: the school system.
It may be a signifier that I am a little “kumbaya” at heart, [...]

A little something about two charity events on my radar this week: SM4SC’s drive to feed the hungry in New York City for #sm4scnyc and MomItForward for #GNO. Enjoy.

You may remember Social Media for Social Change from its debut last year in Boston – a debut Uptown Uncorked was proud to be a small part of. With its first event at the Harvard Club to benefit Jane Doe under its belt, where would Gradon Tripp and SM4SC go next? Why, New York City, [...]

You all know how I feel about effecting real world change with social media, sharing our successes with others and helping out on and off line. Even so, I am still able to be wowed and floored by the generosity of my social media community. Domestic violence is an issue near to my heart, and [...]

In 2008 I was lucky to find many ways to give back to my community and my favorite charities. Not only that, I was introduced to your favorite charities and given ways to help them out as well. This was all made possible by the power of the internet and social media. As part of [...]

UPDATE: We raised over $800 for the Staley Foundation on Monday night! $534 via ChipIn, $200 at the event and another $70 from Christine Perkett of Perkett PR. Thank you so much!
Tonight we are co-sponsoring an event to benefit the Staley Foundation with Perkett PR. If you are in the Boston area, I do hope [...]

Over on Tech.Blorge today, I report on the American Natural History Museum and it’s new multi faceted social media campaign to get the word out about climate change in general, and their new blog specifically. I’m pretty excited to see such an “old-school” institution as a natural history museum take the reigns of social media [...]

Fantastic panel tonight – the episode is embedded below:

Today is Blog Action Day, and the theme is poverty. As I went on my errands I thought a bit about what I wanted to write when I got home. I woke up in my warm house, sick with some kind of hacking flu type thing and complaining about having to bundle up to take [...]