— Guest post by Rodney D Bell Wednesday was an exciting day downtown. In addition to the buzz generated by Barack Obama’s arrival in Denver, several major protests kept things interesting, even as the DNC wrapped up its third night. I snapped pictures of the 3,500-member war veterans protest march primarily to send to my [...]
— Guest post by Gina Seamans Tuesday, I didn’t work downtown. I did drag my whole family downtown in the evening so they could be part of the DNC energy. A few things we experienced: Our first stop was the double-deck MSNBC stage at Union Station. Very cool. Lots of signs and supporters. I’ve never [...]
— Guest post by Gwin Johnston Tuesday morning, I attended a meeting at the Denver Athletic Club. It was pretty routine, except that when the meeting ended, I was invited up to the DAC’s rooftop deck to see Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi address a consortium of media outlets. I sat toward the back [...]
— Guest post by Gina Seamans I volunteered at the Denver Center for Performing Arts yesterday and helped check in media who wanted to attend the Unconventional Women events and the Rocky Mountain Roundtable events. Here are my observations: • I arrived as a group of women dressed in hot pink clothes (who have been [...]
Today’s newspaper reporters are armed with more than pen and pad. They have cameras. They have blogs. They have Twitter. They have arrived. RockyMountainNews.com has launched “DNC Right now” powered by Twitter front and center on its home page. Why the sudden emphasis on Twitter? According to this page, each reporter has a Twitter account [...]
— Guest post by Blake Jackson Thank goodness for camera phones. I was running downstairs to grab some lunch when I noticed a crowd of people gathered around Boney’s Smokehouse, a barbecue stand in Writer Square. I walked up and asked one of the fellows on the fringe what all the hubbub was about. “Someone [...]
New data from Pew’s Biennial Media Consumption Survey 2008 was recently released. It’s a fascinating and useful study because it carves the media-consuming population into four distinct groups and attaches percentages and characteristics to each group. Integrators – 23% of the public • Get the news from both traditional sources and the Internet Net-Newsers – [...]
Great news from the Boulder startup scene: Socialthing!, a lifestreaming service founded earlier this year, has been acquired by AOL for an undisclosed amount (I love saying that). Lifestreaming, for those unfamiliar with the term, is basically a way to aggregate and collect all of your social media activities into a single place. If you [...]
I was scrolling through TechCrunch this morning and found an entry about a new homepagey site (in the vein of Netvibes) that is targeted at women, emphasis on moms. The site is called Nesting and, aside from pulling in RSS feeds and widgets, it has some kind of social networking capability. The design and colors [...]
If you wanna see some examples of major corporations incorporating social media into their marketing check out this article on Mashable. While examples from small and medium-sized companies can be just as powerful – consider Zappos.com’s mastery of microblogging – this list also shows that social media can be done on the cheap. Take for [...]