The “say g’day to Paull Young” meetup, which expanded into the first impromptu meetup of the BostonTweeters, was a smashing success Monday night.
As in other instances where I finally came face-to-face with someone I’d corresponded with for a good while online, “meeting” Paull was more proof for me that social media connections are genuine […]

A quick note about an informal meetup — or to be cool, we can call it a geek dinner — that I’ve thrown together in Boston for tonight. Here are the details I included in the upcoming.org announcement:
Say “G’day” to Paull Young
When:
Monday, May 21, 2007
Time:
6:47 PM
Where:
MJ O’Connor’s Irish Pub
Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers,
64 Arlington […]

How to run a successful blogger relations campaign.
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Tuesday, May 15, 2007.

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As the Wall Street Journal rightly points out in its featured technology story today, “How to Be a Star in a YouTube World,” going from amateur to true online superstar requires more than just good talent:
Just as in Hollywood, becoming a hit takes talent, effort, timing and some luck. Sex appeal is just as valuable […]

Libaries and new media. Managing your social media.
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Tuesday, May 8, 2007.

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If Andy Kaufman had been at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Thursday night, the 90-minute presentation on Twitter that Jack Hodgson and I led for the Berkman Thursdays Blog Group might well have been condensed into a five-minute lightning talk — leaving us extra time to enjoy the always-important post-meetup food-and-beer session. […]

Key observations, messages, and takeaways from a night of Twitter talk at the Berkman Center with my co-presenter Jack Hodgson.

There are certainly plenty of new-media enthusiasts who aren’t yet using Twitter, if our small sample size lf eight was any indication. Only only or two of the participants, in fact, had actually tried the […]

Jack Hodgson and I will be giving a 30-minute presentation on Twitter tonight at 7:00 at the weekly Berkman Thursdays Blog Group meetup, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School.
Just as we did at BarCamp Boston 2, we’ll be giving an overview and demonstration of Twitter and then leading a […]

Dave Jones, co-host of the outstanding Inside PR podcast, included this gem in a list of five things to do as part of spring cleaning your PR career: “Lose the do-what-I’m-told approach.”
Dave’s right. Here are five reasons why simply doing what you’re told on the job is a loser’s game. Some of these ideas came […]