by Debbie Weil | Jul 21, 2009 | Events, Uncategorized
My grand plans to live blog Open Government and Innovation dwindled within minutes when I saw two Twitter boards behind the speakers displaying the live Twitter stream for hashtag #ogi. Live crowdsourcing is mesmerizing. The hundreds (thousands?) of individual tweets...
by Debbie Weil | Jul 21, 2009 | Events, Uncategorized
I’m liveblogging today’s Open Government and Innovations Conference in Washington DC. Should be pretty interesting. Some key players in Pres. Obama’s open government directive are speaking, including Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer...
by Debbie Weil | Jun 8, 2009 | Events, Social Media, Uncategorized
Update: SOLD OUT! You can now follow us on Twitter at @SweetsandTweets. The next Sweets and Tweets is Thursday July 9, 2009 at Baked & Wired in Georgetown. Genius Rocket is sponsoring. Venture capitalist, entrepreneur and politico Mark Walsh will speak about...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 30, 2009 | Events, Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized
It’s not a pandemic yet but you wouldn’t know it from the exponentially growing number of tweets about swine flu and #swineflu and, beginning yesterday, swine flu renamed H1N1. Like many others, I dislike the term “viral” marketing. But...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 21, 2009 | Corporate Blogging, Events, Uncategorized
Update: Yesterday’s BlogWell conference in New York was a huge success. You can read a stream of Tweets about #blogwell. And a great recap on a Squidoo page that parses the event via tweets about the different speakers. One of the highlights was a live...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 20, 2009 | Corporate Blogging, Events, Social Media, Uncategorized
These aren’t any ol’ cupcakes. They’re at Baked & Wired in Georgetown. And they’ve been declared the best in the nation by The Atlantic. Andrew Wilson, HHS’s social media celeb, is our special guest. He’ll tell us about...
