July 2011
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White House Tweetup about the Economy #AskObama
The first White House tweetup. I’ve been invited with a few others to be present for this event. This will be interesting to see how the questions will be asked and vetted. Is this Social Media savvy by the Obama administration or just another bump up for twitter. You decide, view it live, whitehouse.gov/liveAmplify’d from askobama.twitter.com
Twitter Presents OBAMA...
April 2011
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Riders are More Important than #shutdown
If you are not familiar with politics you will never know how often riders are in every bill. Much of our political process today is more about making a point versus doing what’s in the best interest of the country. I’ve spent 22 years in the political mecca and I’ve seen it all. The problem I have with this potential shut down is that this IS really about ideology as Senator...
November 2010
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Spelman Women Beat Harvard and MIT in Mobile #woc...
These are the days that reminds me of all the years I’ve put in to making sure women of all backgrounds are seen in the same view as others in tech. These young ladies have definitely made me proud and will put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.
Hats off to Jonecia and Jazmine. Living proof stereotypes mean nothing. All it takes is determination and opportunity.Amplify’d from...
October 2010
it’s been a minute since I checked in on @amplifytheweb I must say guys you are doing some great and interesting things http://amplify.com/u/d8tl
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Does it really?!?: ‘Txting kills’ band sends a...
It’s an interesting approach to a recent technology issue that has social implications. Driving while distracted is a problem but sending a message that texting kills is a bit farther than the truth. Drinking while driving kills; Putting on Make-up while driving kills; Speeding while turning around to yell at your children messing around in the back seat kills, Talking on a mobile phone...
August 2010
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#sxsw panelpicker is extended through the weekend...
If you didn’t have enough time to promote your sessions or couldn’t find all the panels you were planning to vote for, you still have time.
Here are two sessions I’m involved in:
Social Media: The Pink Collar Ghetto of Tech? http://bit.ly/b45YDm
Diverse panelists on a Heated topic in the industry
Lifecycles Tech & Society: Is 14yr Olds too Old? http://bit.ly/94x6Qm
We...
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Stories About Sheroes in #Tech: @RWW is Requesting...
Read Write Web has begun to take stories highlighting the work and risks of women in tech. There are women doing very cool things and this is just one opportunity to highlight them. If you know of any please submit them to @rww or Clair Cain Miller at the Times.
h/t to @rww for thinking about doing this and giving the upcoming www.womenwhotech.com summit a nod in the process. There will be some...
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Diaspora the Facebook OpenSource Alternative #tech...
Not exactly sure what to make of this as of yet but I do find the name choice very interesting.
Definition: a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture.
This word has been commonly used to represent Jewish and African descendants leaving their ancestral country. In this case I’m sure this means leaving the common culture of...
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D.C.'s Tech Scene Critiqued by TechCrunch TV w/...
This proves that Silicon Valley frowns up the innovation of tech that comes from either public government or the social justice nonprofit sector. I’m not completely shocked about that but it proves why there is such a disconnect with technology and the social aspect of people [users] and how they would truly use a product.
There should be a partnership in Social Tech that I haven’t...
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What Would You Ask the White House After 90 years...
Yes, this is a shameless clipping of my post about the 90th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote on BlogHer. Can you imagine a time when there was politics with out women involved? There were African Americans who fought for this amendment even though they didn’t receive unfettered access to voting until 45 years later in the Voting Rights Act. It is indeed an important day.
Today,...
a lot of new updates for amplify looking forward to the changes http://bit.ly/bil8tN
If I reduce the names of all the social networks to just another website tied to a data center will you get angry? or think differently about social media/networks? http://bit.ly/c72Zfr
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Facebook Doubles the Size of Its First Data Center...
As I post my take on a conference I attended on this very subject it was interesting to find this. The cloud is the new language but it’s true it’s just another data center. Oregon is the destination, there are new jobs that will be created, but what we should all be looking at is how secure will your personal data be at this facility.
Twitter is having similar discussions to aid in...
July 2010
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Bits: Mobile Web Use and the #DigitalDivide my...
Pew Internet life updates their mobile report and discovers some interesting trends about cell phone and laptop use. African Americans have increased their laptop usage however more youth & low income communities are found to have only cell phone access to the web and that doesn’t necessarily mean smart phones. The percentage of smart phone penetration is still very low.
There were a...
June 2010
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10 Years for 500mhz: Is It Worth the Time and...
The announcement yesterday indicates that there maybe spectrum reform on the way per the White House. Larry Summers was sent to discuss the ten year plan. There aren’t many details that have been disclosed as of yet but one of the hopes from this plan is jobs. Will it take ten years to produced possible jobs for Americans? So many are still out of work.
Wireless access for those that can...
Are You a Hog? Well AT&T is Taking Steps to... →
I’ve been patiently waiting for days like this because I’ve been clearly designated a hog by a few service providers. Those you are avid tech enthusiasts or evangelists are usually the first to notice. I’ve been either warned or cut by youtube, facebook, twitter, verizon and a few others.
When you have complete control over wireless service to products like iPhone and now iPad...
May 2010
7 things to stop doing on #facebook now! #privacy... →
Some of these seem like no brainers to me but I’m never sure how others feel about it. I find the parents “should friend their children” an interesting one because there is current ongoing debates about whether “children will actually friend” their parents and how much they will use the privacy settings to filter out what their parents actually see. These are...
thinking about the 10 Dead #geekettes everyone... →
A post was written recently by @nordette about women of color bloggers and how hard it was find them and other women. The post by Jonathan reminds me of the fact that there were plenty of successful women we don't know about for various reasons.
He mentions being a marketing guru, is that the only way we to know about the successes of women. If they don't market themselves does that...
March 2010
Specialize or Generalize, which do you choose? via... →
This question is common in social media in my opinion. So many "experts" are working to target broad communities. However, when you have an expertise in (as some of us have) niche, diverse and smaller community engagement platforms, the social media campaign design landscape becomes very narrow and different. The basic concept of Ttwitter and Facebook no longer work to the chagrin of some...
4 Ways Non Profits Can Use the Buzz via... →
What Buzz offers is both a public and private group engagement, these examples used by Geoff, (yes, including my quote) depicts how some social media tools can be used depending on the needs of the organization or the type of social media campaign.
Haydon points out it can be used for those that may not be as tech savvy and the process won't seem to foreign to them.
Buzz has had it's...
social media policies and disclaimer 2.0 from... →
As I am preparing for an panel in a few weeks at the NTEN conference about this very subject http://bit.ly/ntcsocmedpolicy . I've discovered it has been a hot issue for many nonprofit organizations in addition to the companies who are "protecting" their brand image.
The connection between the individual personal brand and an "entity" brand is a very thin line. Both want to...
February 2010
10 Metrics You Should be Monitoring →
Most of the social media campaign strategies are transferable no matter if it's for a business, nonprofit or a consultant. I hear the same exact questions from each of these groups. ROI is mostly a business term, Return on Investment. For nonprofits and consultants it could be considered Return on Inaction (that's not my words)
Metrics are getting better and there are as many tools to...
Is your Nonprofit Reaching Diverse Activists &... →
As you know I have spent a few days talking about diversity in social media, on political campaigns and in nonprofits over the the past week. I was quoted in this article. I have been pulling data on actual numbers about online campaigns and their reach into diverse networks.
some plane crash footage if you are interested... →
Not sure what's going on, too early to tell, but I am remembering how I felt when I watched the first plane hit WTC.
Why does decreasing taxes result in slicing... →
Not sure why tax cuts seems to mean public schools are on the table for slicing and dicing. Virginia is known for having one of the "better" public school systems but taking over 700 million away? I can't imagine what type of system it will become.
I guess I will never understand with the decreasing position the U.S. has in educating it's children why this would be considered a...
Do you know any? Calling all #wmn #woc #tech... →
It's always interesting to see these calls go out. Do you know of any? I know a few but not all of them get VC funding, which is an interesting criteria to use when I believe VC's only fund about 10% of women owned startups. I am very interested in seeing what other names will be submitted.
If cheaters never win do you think this would... →
"Borrowing" codes as it can be called is a ongoing debate to determine if it's a "crime" or not. It seems to be part of the practice among a few students. There are a lot of apps out here that are based on borrowed codes or those that have been bought, manipulated or given to new owners. Some of those code transfers has turned into millions of dollars and the foundation of...
1 Gbps possible here? Your new ISP? Google... →
As I have listened to multiple debates with ISPs targeting Google for their reasons of battling Net Neutrality, it seems they may have bigger problems on their hands. If true, 1 Gbps is available in the U.S. this debate will completely change.
I have always been struck by current ISPs saying that Net Neutrality will stifle innovation, but much of their proposals would potentially stifle...
Tracking Google Buzz conversations at the same time I am having #oldshooltech tweets and I am reminded of thoughts about tech transitions that haven’t really changed much overall. Similar conversations but about differently “named” tech except social media is used as a recorder. http://bit.ly/cVJLWZ
Apple's Bans Go Way Too Far via @PCWorld what do... →
Many already know that the iPhone and I have not been dating, and I don't have a love affair as many of my colleagues do with it. However, the reason is not because I hadn't tried it to see if I would like it because I had. It was sent to me in the early days by mistake when I purchased a different product. I was not impressed and I had issues with the closed platform it offered. I am a...
28 Days of Diversity in Social Media via... →
Wayne takes an interesting approach to show casing those in the space. I would prefer 365 days. I will have to think about doing something similar to that but of course it would be a lot of work. However this is one way to get others to see that there is plenty of diversity in social media if you know where to look and are connected to those communities.
January 2010
Phony Facebook Haiti Fundraisers « Black Web 2.0 →
There are always scam artists and spammers when something as big as the Haiti disaster occurs. Just like the trolls there are people that will take advantage of this disaster for personal gain or for attention getting reasons.
Not sure if the young woman in the article was a part of it or not but everyone should do their part in checking out fan pages and other sources before sharing it with...
Open Thread: On Trolls, Anonymity & Making... →
This should read is Trolling dead? Facebook has been known to protect privacy but you must use your real name. Their recent changes with privacy settings would mean that protections are loosing designed and easily changed.
Social media hasn't changed privacy or anonymous trolling behavior. Many people put their personal information out in the social web and trolls continue to troll no...
The Price Of Google In China →
Tech Crunch takes an interesting approach to this story. I don't think we know everything behind the decision to stop censorship in China. I think Siegler is right about one thing Google would have never been invited in the beginning if they hadn't agreed.
Doing the right thing even if it takes four years is still better than never doing the right thing but I am concerned about the...
Per Twitter’s Request, We’re Removing Auto... →
Twitter has made a request of a third party app. Reading the post it makes a statement that this service implies that the value of twitter is in the number of followers. I find this statement a contradictory one. There are many people that use the service in this way and that is by their choice, however is twitter trying to dictate how people should use their service?
I have a blog post I am...
Haitian Violence Hampers Relief Efforts, U.S.... →
Having experienced the way media has turned victims into criminals during Katrina I would hope that we won't allow this to be a way to excuse the reasons that they are not able to get the needed resources on the ground in Haiti during this crisis.
Many forget that some people were portrayed by the media as gathering food and needed supplies for their children and families by some and then...
August 2009
if you saw me tweet abt lack of diversity in the digital media conference plz send me suggestions of corp #wmn #woc #digitalmedia plz r/t
absolutely! RT @GeoffLiving: @BethHarte @digitalsista .. disingenuous, unethical & dirty post.TSG deserves all of the grief they are getting
@BethHarte through all of the comments and feedback they just finally changed the name of the post all together ~ something like 10 to know
@BethHarte the shame of it was as geoff said tsg have #wmn they represent they could have listed but they chose 2 list brogan who they don’t
@BethHarte thanks beth was just happy @geoffliving decided to take the issue on.
luv that! RT @NishaChittal: RT @henrim: HAHHAHA RT @laurenm: Happy Birthday, @barackobama! http://ow.ly/j1lU #HappyBdayMrPresident
public vs private debates in #gov20 in social networks wondering which 1 will prevail? http://ow.ly/j1jS
@t_reutersward not sure yet I think both have their good & bad parts like any #tech #boxnetgetdropboxbattle
@loryn24 @BELINDATHURSTON @baratundeObama especially today since it’s his bday. #happybirthdaybarackobama #HappyBdayMrPresident
@califmom humm, I am wondering if i should buy some cake ;) #happybirthdaybarackobama #HappyBdayMrPresident
@baratunde LOL, you are right but he already won :) this is for what’s left.
said they didn’t have enough curse words RT @gloriabell The El Show “Personal brand is a curse word” LOL via @BethHarte http://ow.ly/j1a4
@kayawalton your right I was retweeting should have caught that.
looks like #gov20 debate I saw on a blog http://ow.ly/j13C fyi @technosailor @immunity @justinherman @henrim @leslibradshaw h/t @batterista