Tag Archives: Social Media

Marketing Is Not Dead

January 7, 2010 – 3:53 pm

Forrester Research claims that 2010 is the year marketing dies. I mostly agree with the article and its conclusions. However, I do not think that marketing is dead: I just do not think it means what you think it means. The article conflates three distinct concepts: marketing, media, and advertising (although media, advertising, and public [...]

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Common Good Vermont

December 23, 2009 – 4:18 pm

The other day we launched the first iteration of the Common Good Vermont website. From the about page:
Vermont (pop. 621,000) is a small, tightly knit rural state proud of its independent spirit and high levels of civic engagement. Vermont’s independent sector (3000+ organizations, $4 billion annual revenue) plays a primary role in the delivery of [...]

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Project Retrospective

October 6, 2009 – 5:40 pm

When Peak Organic Brewing Company started in 2005 they asked us create their website (yes, it’s a table-based layout — this was 2005, get over it). When it launched the website included (and still includes as of this writing) the ability for you to “share your peak experience” with other users of the website by [...]

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New Media Office Hours (East)

July 13, 2009 – 10:56 am

If you’re a “new media” (social media, digital video/photography/editing, podcasting, etc.) enthusiast (or just curious) in Burlington, Vermont then you should check out the New Media Office Hours this evening. From the VCAM blog:

So we’d like to officially announce that the first New Media Office Hours (east-coast) gathering will be this coming Monday evening [...]

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Tagnabit Usage

June 15, 2009 – 4:56 pm

It’s been two weeks since we launched tagnabit. I want to share some information about how people have been using tagnabit. Some of the most popular tags used so far include:

btv
BTV is the airport code for Burlington, Vermont (where we are located). This tag is pretty heavily used on Twitter to represent our city, but [...]

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Tagnabit Launched!

June 1, 2009 – 11:37 am

Last night we announced the launch of tagnabit, a social media aggregator. It’s “a service that aggregates tags from popular social media websites. It is useful for conferences or other events. Participants can use a shared tag across Twitter, Flickr, Technorati, YouTube and Delicious. Tagnabit then aggregates this content in one place.” The idea originally [...]

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ACM-NE Conference

May 26, 2009 – 3:43 pm

Last week the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region (ACM-NE) had a conference here in Burlington, Vermont. Organizers of the conference encouraged participants to use a shared tag, acmne09, on sites such as Twitter, Flickr, blogs, YouTube, and Delicious. We created a website for the conference (similar to what we had done for Town [...]

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The Social Graph

March 15, 2009 – 6:58 pm

In my last post about the semantic web I mentioned the XFN project which allows individuals to define their relationships to others simply using semantically marked up hyperlinks. I also said that a global graph can be made of all of these relationships making the “walled gardens” of existing social networking sites obsolete. Before I [...]

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TMD VT Social Media Recap

March 4, 2009 – 5:19 pm

Wow, thank you to everyone who participated and helped make Town Meeting Day Vermont ‘09 a social media success! In the spirit of openness, I wanted to share some things that Jason and I learned from the tmdvt.net/09 experiment. First of all, some disclaimers. It’s important to note that we were just one small [...]

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Town Meeting Day Vermont

February 28, 2009 – 10:43 pm

The first Tuesday of March is Town Meeting Day here in Vermont. Citizens throughout Vermont get together and elect local officers and vote on budgets. While it doesn’t get as much attention as some of the bigger elections, it’s still an important day in local politics. This year’s Town Meeting Day will be on March [...]

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