Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who’s the cleverest Twitterer of them all?
Who is “The Cleverest Twitterer”? Turns out, it’s Howard Greenstein (@howardgr). Howard was recently named the 2008 winner of the Old Saying Game.
Part Balderdash, part New Yorker Caption Contest, the Old Saying Game
sets out to answer the simple question: Who is “The Cleverest
Twitterer”?
Update - there’s even a T-Shirt!
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Paying a Charity in Exchange for your Attention
Lee Dryburgh has “called me out” to help in an effort to raise money for a shelter group in the Bay Area, the Shelter Network. In his blog he calls upon me, and a list of social media ‘gurus’ to promote his conference mailing list, and for each person who signs up to the eComms Conference list, they’ll donate fifty cents. There’s more about this in his article. (eComms is a conference about telecom and communication - so if you’re in that space and you can handle 4 emails a month, why not take a minutue to act?)
It is a bit of a bold strategy, calling on all of us to promote his conference in the context of helping a charity at the same time. I’m not sure I love the strategy, actually, but it is bold and it has the potential to be a new model:
- Paying for mailing lists =”tired”
- Paying a charity in exchange for people’s attention = “wired?” (Or even Causewired?)
Lee’s article is below - go read it, sign up (and tell them where you found out about it, eh?).
Social Media: Can it Raise Just 5000.00 Dollars to Help 5 Year Olds? - Emerging Communications Blog
Let’s have a public test of the effectiveness of social media. Let’s do it with the aim of measuring the reach and usage of social media (and hopefully with some serendipity regarding the results). Let’s do it in a way that helps us understand the role and significance of social media on the emerging communications landscape.
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Added FB Connect to the blog via Disqus
You can now comment on the blog and log in to do so via your Facebook profile and ID.
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Howard Greenstein on Blogtalk Radio with Doc Searls
I hadn’t posted this previously, but this is an interview by John Havens of Doc and me at the 10th anniversary of the ClueTrain book in New York.
We discuss the Clue Train 10 years later, and how much of what was predicted actually came true.
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Temporary Design Change
Some folks told me my last design wasn’t working well in IE on the PC. So, this is a temporary design until I can figure out the details.
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Vote for my photo
I entered a photo contest and I could use your vote. Please take a moment. Thanks!
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Congratulations, Friends - Obama Team appoints Crawford, Werbach
I’m thrilled to be able to write that my friends Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been named to review the FCC for the Obama transition team. I’ve been a fan of Susan’s work on One Web Day and have participated since she started it. 
(photo credit: http://flickr.com/photos/jrnoded/) I was asked to be a One Web Day Ambassador this year.
I’ve also had the privilege of working for Kevin on his annual Supernova conference for the last 2 years. 
I am extremely pleased that these two individuals, who I know have very clear ideas on how technology and communications can be used to help all Americans learn and gain access will be in key roles reviewing current policy. I can only hope they also get key roles in the administration. Congratulations, both Kevin and Susan.
Net Neutrality Advocates In Charge Of Obama Team Review of FCC | Threat Level from Wired.com
Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team’s review of the FCC.
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Street Smarts Live - an Inc. Magazine Event
Tonight I went to an event sponsored by Inc. Magazine (where I write for the Start-Up blog). The event featured Norm Brodsky, a serial entrepreneur and writer of the Street Smarts column, and Bo Burlingham, Inc. Magazine Editor at large.
I ran into Lauren Solomon of LS Image Associates, whom I worked with several years ago, and haven’t seen in good while. She introduce me to Elyissia Wassung of 2 Chicks with Chocolate.
We went inside, and here are my live blogging notes (excuse typos and partial sentences - this is raw note-taking).
Street Smarts Live - an Inc. Magazine Event:
The Knack, How Street Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham.
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2 Reasons to Blog today - Blog Action Day and Creative Commons Awareness Day
Today, October 15th, is a do-something day online. Blog Action Day, supported by everyone from the UN to Friendster, is generating awareness of what everyday people can do to fight poverty, worldwide.
Creative Commons awareness is about letting people know they have a choice when they share their words, pictures, and images in public- they can limit how those media are used, or they can allow people to re-use them in specific ways that benefit everyone. (This article is (cc)2008 attribute-share alike).
Read more about these 2 great causes:
On October 15th bloggers everywhere will publish posts that discuss poverty in some way. By all posting on the same day we aim to change the conversation that day, to raise awareness, start a global discussion and add momentum to an important cause.
Be Common on October 15, 2008 | Social Media Club
October 15, 2008 represents the first opportunity to evangelize the importance of standards and move this mission forward in partnership with Creative Commons.So what can YOU do to help create more awareness around the important service Creative Commons provides? There are 3 ideas which certainly would help which have been bantered around, but I suspect the community can come up with more by October 15th. The key theme is just to identify a way to let folks know about the best practices around the sharing/creating of creative works leveraging a Creative Commons License.
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Chuck Hester and the Pay it Forward Chronicles
I profiled Chuck Hester of iContact in this piece about using Live Connections to Leverage Virtual Connections back in February. Now Chuck is taking his experiences with LinkedIn and writing a book on “Linking In to Pay it Forward: Changing the Value Proposition in Social Media.” His blog has one neat idea today:
THE PAY IT FORWARD CHRONICLES: The Small Good, A New Book and A Busy Fall
First the Small Good. A concept that I first ran across earlier this year as I listened to a podcast. Here’s the basic premise:Someone has a need, an issue, a problem. They come to you for help. From your prospective it takes little effort to help this person - maybe a referral to a tax attorney you know or a tip on how to get better publicity for your company.
To the person your helping, it’s HUGE! You have saved them time, money, worry - whatever that may be.
My Small Good for the day is letting you know about this. I hope it provides you good value and something to think about.
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