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• 08.18.08
  3 New Media Experiments to Wet Your Whistle Attention, Daily, Geek, Personal Branding, Projects, Remarkable, Tech, Truth, conversations, entrepreneurship |

  Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang van Goethe During a recent interview I was asked if I'd rather make ten new friends online or one in real life. Think about that question. Really. Would you prefer to gain ten new online friends (or followers) or one new real life friend? I said what any good interviewee would: that it's impossible to choose one over the other because both kinds of connection are vital to community growth. When I consider my friends, both online and off, I think ...
• 05.10.08
  Carolina-Colorado Cross-Pollination + A Contest! Attention, Blog, Creative, Geek, Projects, Tech, Women |

  I've been blogging my brains out, in one form or another, all week. First up, on Tuesday we had a great turnout to the May New Tech Meetup (looking around, I estimate that a record 30-40% of the audience was female--fantastic turnout). The highlight of the night for me was Brightkite's presentation. The presentation itself appeared to be done on the fly, but I liked that about it. The staid and solid 12 page power points bore me...I've seen them done multiple times at NTM. I like to see something fresh and Brightkite has it. I won't ...

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