For my second presentation from Highlight Midwest I have on from Christina Maki of The Social Lites who did one titled – “Messages, Membership, and Money: Growing Your Non-Profit With Social Media.” Some great advice for all the non-profit organizations out there. Check out her presentation below. Note : I noticed after I posted the [...]
This past week I had a chance to go to the first Highlight Midwest (and sure not to be the last) here in Kansas City which highlighted developers, entrepreneurs, social media, new media, ect. in the Midwest (mainly KC, Omaha, and Des Moines) in an effort to bring the community together and show the midwest [...]
Thats right kids a new episode of The Social Geeks Podcast is live for the taking. I didnt make it till about the last 5 min of the show due to being at Highlight Midwest all day but I did jump on when I got home and was able to say hello to everyone as [...]
Its that time again and a new episode of The Social Geeks podcast is live. This week we switched over and started using talkshoe so that we could have people listen in live to the show as well as give us real time comments and maybe even join in! So make sure you watch my [...]
Have you ever wanted to find entries across the social web on a certain subject or keyword? Wanna see what maybe is being said about you or your brand? Enter Social Mention. Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services. [...]
Dont forget this Friday is the Social Media Breakfast for Social Media Club KC breakfast. All are welcome and it is always a good time. This month we are meeting at the First Watch in Fairway [map] and it starts at 7:30am. Hope to see you there! Greased Lightbox →←+-↻ Loading image Click anywhere to [...]
There is a HUGE event coming to the Kansas City area Wednesday October 29th in Kansas City, MO. called Highlight Midwest. What exactly is Highlight Midwest you ask? Highlight Midwest showcases the entrepreneurs, innovators, and early-adopters using web technology to grow their businesses, advance their careers, and enrich the regional economy in new ways. Three [...]
If you are a FriendFeed addict like me you hate to ever leave the site as it has become the hub for my interweb connection. But what if you need to go to sites like Brightkite, Seesmic, Diigo, ect? You gotta leave FriendFeed for that right? NO!!! I just found a new greasemonkey script called [...]
The gang recently got togather to record a new episode of The Social Geeks Podcast. In this episode we talked about Chrome, Toluu adding tags, TweetStats, Tweenky, and a few other things. Joining in the roundtable we had IdoNotes, Corvida, Wayne Sutton, myself, Sarahintampa, and Louis Gray. Listen Here – [episode 7 - TSG - [...]
Recently I have been working with others locally here in Kansas City who are in the Social Media Scene to work on getting a Social Media Club setup here in the area. Basically the idea behind the club is just bringing different people togather to share and socialize together. This past Wed night we had [...]
With a new week comes a week full of meetups which I must say is pretty exciting. If you are in the Kansas City area and have a chance make sure to come visit with fellow bloggers, social media types, and geeks in general. Here is a rundown of the meetups I plan to attend [...]
Last week I got an invitation to join The Social Geeks Podcast and their new round table discussions pertaining to social media and the social web. On the first round table we had Chris aka idonotes, Corvida, Wayne Sutton, and of course myself with future guests to join us and give their insight. I just [...]
Well all the details have been ironed out and there will be a KC Social Media Meetup next Wed 8.27.08 at Perceptive Software in Shawnee,KS. If you are a tweeter, blogger, podcasters, social media guru, social media fan, or even non of those please join us for the event. Its a great way to meet [...]
This morning we had the 2nd meetup for SocialMediaKC which is a meetup for anyone in the Kansas City area who are interested in any aspect of the social media scene which as you get to look into it has a wide range of subjects/topics/areas. Right now the group is growing and contacts are being [...]
One of the kool recent features on FriendFeed is the ability to embed audio into a post and then have a player embedded right there for the masses to click on and play. Over the past few days I thought hmmm this could be kool for podcasts and help make FriendFeed a podcatcher for ya. [...]
Ever wonder what exactly is social media? How Do I use it? How do I explain it to others? Well enter CommonCraft who has been doing an awesome job lately of creating videos on subjects ranging from zombies all the way to rss or social bookmarking in plain english. They have been great and most [...]
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