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Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge

This past Saturday I presented “Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge” at KnowCamp, an Italian BarCamp in Modena about knowledge and the web. If you’re not familiar with the Ignite format, it’s very exciting for both speakers and spectators. 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide. It’s a timing nightmare and you’re always … Continue reading »

Social Media Geek: Adding Community Features to Your Blog Liveblog from BlogHer 11

The liveblog of my panel at BlogHer ’11: Social Media Geek | Adding Community Features to Your Blog is now online. I talked about BuddyPress and bbPress as ways to extend your WordPress site into a community and I definitely recommend checking it out. The liveblog is about 90% accurate, which is amazing since we were talking … Continue reading »

Quick Bytes: Media Training 101

I’ve been reading, learning, and watching a lot of content about presenting lately as it’s something I’m very interested in and there’s no definitive manual to learn how to do it. I’ll be sharing that info soon, but first I thought a parallel subject is learning how to speak with the media. I spent three … Continue reading »

No offense, I don’t want to be friends on Facebook

If you’re reading this it’s possible until recently we used to be friends on Facebook. But before that, we probably were friends IRL…in real life. We fell out of touch, or maybe we just saw each other rarely.

We became friends on Facebook, and now I’ve unfriended you. Here’s why. Continue reading »

Big in Small Tech Correspondent: Me

I spent January at Suzuki Europe’s Big in Small website as their technology correspondent – here are those articles. Continue reading »

Interview with Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor

Tara Hunt, @missrogue on Twitter, is a notable Canadian entrepreneur, founder of unconventional marketing company “Citizen Agency” and frequent keynote speaker talks to me about her new book, “The Whuffie Factor.” Continue reading »