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I am about to participate in a new media tour of Pittsburgh with other bloggers and DIY media makers. We have been invited by visitpittsburgh.com and PodCamp Pittsburgh. They invited us to check out some of the cool stuff that the Pittsburgh has to offer. I think inviting bloggers is a wise effort on the […]

Great weekend sailing with Jimmy CraicHead, Magda, and scrcasm, On the way into the mooring we saw what we thought was an original whaling boat—turned out to be of more recent vintage, but still a sweet vessel.
If you have talked with me lately, you’ll know that I am getting obsessed with the psychological concept […]

My amigo, Bre Pettis, is appearing in a pilot of “History Hacker” on the History Channel! He looks at tech innovators of the past and then tries to duplicate their projects using junk from his closet. Bre is an awesome guy who loves learning, tinkering, and showing other people how to unleash their […]

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I have known in my gut that there is something unspeakably wrong about cubicles. I quit my last job largely because of the cubicle factor. Now my friend Nahum Gershon has sent me articles backing up my instincts. Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your synthetic partitions.
Nahum’s links […]

One of the great things about moving to a new town is that you get to expand your social and professional networks by meeting a bunch of new people. One of the people that I have gotten acquainted with since coming to Philly is Gloria Bell. Gloria runs Red Stapler Consulting, a business which helps […]

Geoff Livingston rocked PodCamp Philly like the Jimi Hendrix of communications, squirting psychic lighter fluid everywhere and lighting it on fire. Like Jimi, Geoff backs up his razzle dazzle with back serious old school chops. I caught him peaking into the session I had just finished leading and snapped this pic.

(Copyright Frank Naif, used by permission)
Have you ever thought about writing a book? If you did, how would you promote it using social media? This week we will have author, Frank Naif, on the show and we are going to help him figure out how to get the word out about his new book: “Super […]

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Phil Shapiro is a teacher, media maker, prankster and an innovator. He’s musician, storyteller, and open source fanatic. He even created a new job title for himself: public geek. Phil knows more about YouTube than anyone we have met. […]

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Commercial marketing is a powerful discipline that influences people (say, you) to behave a certain way (say, buy Count Chocula cereal). But what if the concepts and tools used by commercial marketers were used to effect positive social change–to get people to stop smoking, exercise regularly, or conserve energy? That’s […]

I was so happy when I heard that Christina Arnold won a 300K Cooke Scholarship to pursue a masters degree in public administration and a law degree. Christina founded and runs the Prevent Human Trafficking Institute, an organization that works to “Tackle the root causes of human trafficking through direct support and technical assistance.”
Here is […]