Are you sitting down? Well stand up and get going to one of the multitudinous events happening around the Mid-South! Autumn is BarCamp season, social media is in the air, and many of the tickets are free. TONIGHT! The Wordpress Memphis Kickoff!! – 6pm at the LunaWeb offices, 5180 Park, Suite 305 (FREE) LaunchMemphis presents After Hours [...] [...more]
You may recall that shortly after our own Dave Barger returned from the South by Southwest Conference, our podcast featured a short interview with Natalie about her preparation and ideas for this conference. Well now it’s just around the corner! Listen in to hear Natalie share some details about the informal structure and basic principles [...] [...more]
Elizabeth Cawein, long-time friend of the Social Expedition, loaned us some of her time from Memphis Music Foundation to speak at our August Breakfast. She shared with us some of the ways in which social media is helping Memphis musicians grow and thrive. Besides the usual Facebook and Twitter, Elizabeth also recommends artists utilize sites [...] [...more]
Check OUT that alliteration! But seriously, the Social Expedition was delighted to welcome back one of our former hosts, this time as our interviewee. Vibrant as ever, Elizabeth told us all about what she and the Memphis Music Foundation are doing to help keep Memphis’s rich musical tradition alive by providing resources to artists new [...] [...more]
The Social Expedition was lucky enough to snag a moment of Andy Glover’s time, which he spends in his studies for his Doctorate in Organizational Development and Change and his position as the Help Desk Manager at Methodist Healthcare. Wait, Organizational Development and Change? What what? What does that mean? Well, the hint is that [...] [...more]
First, a participant created a Foursquare check-in for Twilight Camp, and everyone with access to the program made their presence known. This launched a comparison of Gowalla to Foursquare. Gowalla has a better iPad application (Foursquare just has the iPhone app, which you can zoom in on for the iPad’s bigger screen) But the Gowalla app is [...] [...more]
The Social Expedition podcast kicks off with an issue brought to our attention by one of our expeditioners/ expeditionaries (which do you prefer?), Aaron Prather.*** He heard that debt collectors were using social media to track down debtors and research their available assets, which brings up some complex legal issues. On the heels of all [...] [...more]
This week, the Social Expedition sat down with local artist Ash Burns to talk about how she and her husband Paul are utilizing social media to jump-start their new business, AshBDesign. Right now, www.ashbdesign.com points right to their very active Facebook profile, but this whimsical artist can also be found on Twitter at @ashbdesign, as well [...] [...more]
First, some folks checked into Foursquare. Then, four Expeditioners with iPads made the rest of us green with tablet envy. Oh, they are so so pretty. Have you seen the Alice in Wonderland ebook they made for it? The pocket-watch swings when you rotate your screen! Wired Magazine created an interactive version for the iPad, [...] [...more]
In WREG reporter Melissa Moon’s experience, news coverage and Twitter go together like peanut butter and jelly. Functioning on several levels, the social platform can spark interest to get people to tune into the broadcast, but it can also disseminate crucial up-to-the-minute information or fun human-interest stories. She even says that Twitter has been where [...] [...more]
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