My friend Danielle sent me this video FOREVER ago and only tonight I was able to watch it. Here’s Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library with some pretty good and down-to-earth thoughts on Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape.
Thanks to my friend Sean Evanko for sharing this with me…
Minority Report is happening, people. Of course, it had to be born at MIT’s Media Lab. Watch this video:
This is the Ignite presentation I am doing @ NTC 2009, later this month. Right around the same time Ning For Dummies is hitting the shelves.
Watch a video of Ning For Nonprofits.
If you are interested in this topic, you may also want to read the transcript of the chat about Ning For Nonprofits that we held a few days ago.
Almost a year ago, I had the luck of meeting the people that make Social Actions possible.
This year, Social Actions is hosting the Change the Web Challenge:
They are also raising funds to support their mission. I helped back in December: I encourage you to please contribute.
1) Join NetSquared: they enable social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web. Through NetSquared you will connect with lots of brilliant folks. When you are done there, join Social Actions.
2) Set up a Twitter account. Want to learn what it is? Read this post and follow me on Twitter if you want.
3) Create a Facebook Cause and tell EVERYONE you know about it, to help you raise funds!
4) Do the same thing with MySpace PayPal… the other half of the people who are not on Facebook are on MySpace.
5) Got an army of followers? Gather them around a social network created using Ning. It’s free and it’s powerful! Once you have it set up, you can also add a ChipIn widget to it, to help you raising funds.
6) Show your face to your constituents: video can help you big time (driving people to your Facebook Cause, MySpace PayPal or ChipIn widgets). So create an account on YouTube, DoGooderTV and GoodTube.
7) When on YouTube, keep an eye on new videos posted in the Nonprofits & Activism category. You can learn a lot by just watching, so you can start producing your own videos to help you with outreach and fundraising.
Read Mobilizing Generation 2.0.
9) Subscribe to HelpaReporter.com. It’s the BEST way to get the most PR mileage at the lowest possible cost.
10) Last, before you leave, follow Beth Kanter’s blog. She is the guru of social media in the nonprofit world!
Today I felt the love of friends and family thanks to the power of social media!
It was my birthday and through all of the channels below I heard from them:
-My Facebook page: I was amazed when I woke up to find 40+ messages and posts on my page.
-My Twitter page: I received a lot of @askmanny birthday wishes too, including one from the friends at Ning.
-My TuDiabetes blog: 9 friends in the community left comments there.
-My EsTuDiabetes page: not only did the members of the ETD family leave comments. They started three topics (1, 2 and 3) about my birthday! That was SUPER-special of them to do.
Ironically, email and IM birthday wishes (while still happening) took a second seat to social media-based ones in terms of numbers, followed by phone calls. Interesting how more and more people rely on Web 2.0 tools to wish people Happy Birthday! It’s not only convenient, but also more viral and fun (I received a few interesting gifts through Facebook, for instance!) 
To each and every one of you, through this blog: THANK YOU!!! GRACIAS!!!
Hoy a medianoche se va la audicion. Se cierra un capitulo en la historia de Venezuela y de los medios de comunicacion venezolanos. A medianoche del Domingo 27 de Mayo del 2007 deja de transmitir oficialmente RCTV.
Yo tengo muchos años fuera del pais. Desde el 2000 sali porque no estaba de acuerdo con la direccion que las cosas parecian tener en base al lenguaje de Hugo Chavez. Muchas cosas de las que hablaba entonces se han ido haciendo realidad con el tiempo, entre ellas lo impensable: la implantacion de un sistema socialista en Venezuela, que cada vez se quiere parecer mas al modelo castrista.
Es dificil, casi imposible, habiendo crecido en una familia de inmigrantes cubanos, que dejaron atras “su vida, su amor” (como la cancion de Celia Cruz) al salir de Cuba, imaginar Venezuela viviendo el mismo destino. Al margen de ideologias, uno habla con tantas y tantas personas que han salido de Cuba y la norma es oirlos decir que aquello “se fue pa’l carajo”. Entonces, por que tanto afan idealista de navegar en una direccion que se sabe a donde nos va a conducir? Creo que en parte por orgullo y en parte por un poco de locura. Orgullo nacionalista y anti-imperialista (“stick it to the man“) y locura, como las muchas que hemos visto a Chavez decir y hacer sin mayor sentido.
Lo cierto es que hoy se marca una raya en la arena y de aqui en adelante, no parece sino ir “en bajada” el asunto. Una medida comparable hacia Globovision no deja de ser imaginable: ya se vera como se opera. Al margen de lo que podamos sentir acerca de la medida, y lo que representa a nivel de la libertad de expresion y derecho de propiedad privada (basicamente, la decision reciente del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia dejo a RCTV no solo sin la señal, sino sin los equipos, cosa absurda) es el impacto neto que tiene sobre la democracia en Venezuela.
Una de las cosas importantes en una democracia es que las voces en pro y en contra del gobierno puedan escucharse. Al silenciarse RCTV, quedando solo Globovision al aire, se reducen las voces que se oponen al gobierno. Puede que sea cierto que sean voces completamente opuestas, pero si al final del dia, lo unico que el pueblo escucha son voces completamente a favor, eso no es bueno. Los extremos NUNCA han sido sanos y silenciar a RCTV simplemente consolida el extremismo mas en Venezuela.
El pana Afrael bien lo comenta en su blog:
“… es bien difícil detectar realmente lo que está pasando, lamentablemente hay dos extremos comunicacionales, los medios a favor, increíblemente extremistas y fanáticos del gobierno, y los medios en contra, increíblemente extremistas y opositores del gobierno, pero no hay nadie en el medio que este realmente esté balanceado.”
(totalmente cierto)
(If you only speak English and want to make “some sense” of today’s events in Venezuela, as the private TV station RCTV went off the air after 53 of nonstop operations, in compliance with non-renewal of a broadcast license, read this or this).
US Hispanic TV network Univision seems to think so, and the FCC didn’t agree, resulting in Univision getting “a 24-million-dollar fine, which would be the largest FCC fine against any company”.
I am not the most objective person to ask this to, in part because I am no fan of novelas, but it seems to me that arguing a case in favor of novelas is a bit too much. What do you think?
In recent weeks, Joost has gotten a lot of attention in the blogosphere. It’s the latest creation by the founders of Kazaa and Skype. As indicated in this comment:
With Joost not planning to include any user generated content on it’s service, just movies and tv shows, it may well become the legitimate place to watch tv online.
That pretty much sums up the plans for online TV domination that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, from Joost, have.
Where do you think online TV is heading?
Delicious Library is a great way to not only keep track of your books, music, movies and games, but also who has one of them if you ever lend stuff out.
Too bad that there is only a Mac version. I have it installed at work, and started managing my “black list” (people who I have loaned something to) with it. It’s lovely! 
