Refresh Miami Holiday Party

December 18, 2009

Refresh Miami, a South Florida social media group made up of tech enthusiasts had their Holiday Party at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove. Here is Maria De Los Angeles (aka @vicequeenmaria on twitter) post in the New Times.
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Social Media Club South Florida Holiday Event

December 11, 2009

Social Media Club South Florida held its December meeting at John Martin’s in Coral Gables. Afterwards some of us stayed to watch a fabulous comedy show from one of our own twitter friends @freddystebbins.
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Launch Pad Tech Panel

November 21, 2009

I attended a tech panel at the University of Miami Launch Pad. The Launch Pad provides resources to entrepreuneurs and inventors.  David DiCillo and Alan Knitowski of Phunware spoke about mobile apps. Brian Breslin was the moderator. Other speakers were Yanier(also known as Niero )Gonzalez creator of Destructoid, a very popular gaming site. Niero [...]

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Social Media 4 Social Change

November 20, 2009

Last night I volunteered for the first Social Media for Social Change event in Miami to benefit the Camillus House, a local non-profit which benefits the homeless. sm4sc.com was started in Boston by Gradon Trip. It is an online grassroots movement to harness online social media tools and host offline fundraising events.
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Twitter Power At A Pizza Cookoff Contest

November 15, 2009

Last week, The Sun Sentinel hosted a Pizza Cookoff Contest at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza in Aventura, FL . @miklamonica was one of the five chosen to make a pizza for this cookoff. And he invited all his local twitter friends to support him. He had some T-shirts printed with the words, “Where’s The Beef [...]

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Future of Twitter: Predictions by Loic LeMeur

November 2, 2009

Loic LeMeur says in this recent post on Mashable that Twitter will replace SMS and chat. He speaks about his predictions for the future of Twitter. Twitter is one of the first platforms with open conversations and being really transparent. But he says private updates will be bigger than public. This is an interesting insight [...]

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Social Or Media?

October 18, 2009

My friend @murrayiz interviewed Christina Tierney, founder of SMCPBC Social Media Club Palm Beach County). He asked her what was her preference: Social or Media? She answered social. I agree. Media is the platform to create your content of your expertise and your talent. But what good is it if you are not connecting [...]

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Twitter Tips from Chris Brogan & Julien Smith

October 10, 2009

This is a great video of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, co-authors of Trust Agents. I haven’t finished reading the book, but so far of what I have read it has some great insights about new media. They share some tips about the quality of your twitter followers and the importance of engaging with them. [...]

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Where’s The Party?

October 8, 2009

 
I thought I would start off my blog with some humor. I heard someone say to treat social media as if you were going to a party. Would you enter a room, start mingling with people and immediately start hacking your product? Hopefully not. Ideally, you would simply start to engage with people and get [...]

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