As we’re approaching Thanksgiving, we’re finding it hard to shake the feeling that the year is disappearing faster than we can come to a consensus about what we’ll be calling next year. Even November is more than halfway through – the midpoint being marked by BarCamp Memphis. Even mid-November is bookended by tomorrow’s Core Conversation [...] [...more]
For today’s edition of the Social Expedition Podcast, we brought in Ed Cabigao from Memphis gastropub, South of Beale, to talk about his use of social media for the pub. The story of how he used Twitter and Facebook to share about what it’s like to open a restaurant – and how that built anticipation [...] [...more]
In the “Social Expedition Podcast #3,” we interviewed Justin and Jared from the “Shut Up and Listen” podcast about how they got started podcasting, and about their advice for people just getting started. But, as we said, the interview was heavily edited to meet our desired time limit – roughly 30 minutes. In reality, the [...] [...more]
In this week’s Social Expedition Podcast, we talk about the glut of information issuing forth from the fountain that is Mashable, the brand-new list functionality on Twitter, talk about the basics of Facebook, and praise the Memphis Zoo’s use of Twitter. We also sit down with the guys from the “Shut Up and Listen” podcast, [...] [...more]
You may have seen our post earlier today – you may even have listened in, but if you didn’t, we’ve been using the call-in podcasting tool, BlogTalkRadio to create a weekly participatory podcast. In this week’s edition, we batted around the idea of repositioning Twitter’s constant trending topic, Follow Friday, usually branded #FollowFriday or #FF, [...] [...more]
This week, we got Dana Lewis on the line. She’s a senior PR/political science major at the University of Alabama, but what brought her to our attention is that she’s a health communications consultant who spurred a worldwide conversation about health care and social media by regularly hosting chats on Twitter based around the #hcsm [...] [...more]
Feedback Friday from LunaWeb on Vimeo. Do you have one of those people on your Twitter feed who only ever tweets about having a bad day? Or stuff going wrong? Or maybe one of those people whose every tweet is a hardly legible string of @ symbols and Twitter handles and long, unruly hyperlinks? Or [...] [...more]
If you’ve ever gotten a wedding invitation on Facebook or kept up with your kids by reading tweets from their teachers, you’re part of the movement. And at SocialCamp Memphis Sept. 19 at the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering, we met the people leading it. The second “un-conference” of its kind in Memphis, SocialCamp [...] [...more]
The topic of the most recent Social Media Expedition Breakfast was the mainstreaming of social media. So what can we expect as social media continues to grow and change, while making its way into the mainstream? End users’ consumption and behavior are changing, and it’s that which is really driving the constant mutation in the [...] [...more]
"US Airways Flight 1549 Plane Crash Hudson in New York taken by Janis Krums on an iPhone" by davidwatts1978 on Flickr. From hard news, like the crash of US Airways 1549 into the Hudson River, to the pure hype of Oprah’s first posting, odds are you’ve been seeing a lot more of social networks like [...] [...more]
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