Kickstarter , for instance, is a new way for artists to fund and follow creative projects whether they are film, music, theater, events or gaming while still retaining 100% of the ownership. Ushahidi is an open source software platform that crowdsources information and visualizes it to enable individual to share their personal stories more easily. By now most of us are aware of various crowdsourcing campaigns being used to generate ideas, funds or support for a brand or cause. fear of new technology is only part of the problem for these pre-digital and social companies. MORE >>

Love my family, peeps, dogs, film, food and learning.”. Prolific Twitterer, Bostonite, CEO and founder of the oneforty social business software hub, as well as co-author of Twitter For Dummies. Based in Boston, Rebecca is a singing Inbound Marketer with all-in-one marketing software platform developer HubSpot. Few phenomena have ever spread as far and grown as rapidly as social media; obviously, this has tapped into something essential to our nature. What is it? The answer may come from the email marketing field. That is what has driven social media adoption. aaker. Ambal. MORE >>

I’m a social media strategist that blogs about social media and online communities so I find it frustrating when I am sent a PDF attachment on an email with a traditional media press release using agency created content, professional film crews employed to do the traditional campaign filming and ditto with professional musicians. AGENCY CONTENT Use Organisation money to pay professionals to create content (articles, film, music) instead of community. If they can’t come on a film shoot – what, not even one  NFP blogger? So, hey! Do me a favour? MORE >>

At the opening party for a machinima film festival, Jose Marques, a Portuguese venture capitalist friend, sent me an invite to Gmail. For a few years I compared what was happening in Second Life with what was happening with “my” 3D gamemaking software. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story. 2005: Flickr. Do I want to treat Flickr as a serious base for showcasing my photographic works? Or, do I want to use it as a base for experimentation? Ask Chiaki Williams. 2007: Facebook. scramble my name and Alps Bethneck is born. 2010: Twitter. It started in 2002. MORE >>

McGuire’s advice in the film), my advice to you to make the best use of social media for your next presentation is to co-publish. There are several easy-to-use free software tools available to help you simultweet, whether you prefer to present with Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote. [Spoiler alert: The answer is co-publishing!]. You’ve been invited to share your expertise and passion with a live audience. Congratulations! Thank you for your question. It’s easy to imagine how the famous scene , where Mr. McGuire gives Benjamin career advice, might go. Just one word. MORE >>