20 August 2009 0 Comments

GiantAntMedia On Using Video In A Social Media Strategy

Jay Grandin and Leah Nelson have established themselves as accomplished New Media producers with web content that has seen audiences of over 35 million. The success of their short films, comedy and documentary work has led to contracts for original series with companies such as Myspace.
The two will be speaking at Gnomedex about using video [...]

14 August 2009 2 Comments

Follow Friday Founder Talks Twitter Memes, Online Fundraising and Surviving Networking

Micah Baldwin has been working with social media since before it was cool.  (Remember BBS?)  Since then he’s created multiple start-ups, helped universities start online fundraising programs, and written for Mashable.  Oh, and he created twitter’s most famous meme #followfriday.
In advance of his talk at Gnomedex, he talked to Jennifer Cabala about influencing people online, [...]

13 August 2009 0 Comments

Social Media for Social Good: Key Takeaways from SMCSeattle Education Session

Social causes tend to go nowhere if they are individual efforts. It’s a community that makes change. Is it any wonder then that nonprofit organizations see such promise in online social networks? The new tools of social media offer them inexpensive opportunities to rapidly increase the reach of their messages and have the potential to [...]