PeopleBrowsr’s Big News!

Thursday, 2 July 2009, 16:16 | Category : marketing
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Announcing BETA!!!
Finally, after 8 months of Open Alpha and thousands of revisions based on user feedback, PeopleBrowsr goes Beta.
There are now 5 ways to view social media through PeopleBrowsr: Search, MY, brands, Biz, and Conf:
PeopleBrowsr.com – All about SEARCH
PeopleBrowsr.com is now a very simple search page. Search following, followers, and all. Search posts or bios. [...]

Twitter made me a better writer

Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 8:37 | Category : Art and Creativity, Technology
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I have been writing professionally since college…over a decade ago. My best opportunities for honing my writing came from limiting word or character count – whether on grant applications, articles, or even forms. So it is not surprising to me that the character count on twitter helped improve my writing. If it hasn’t already done [...]

Why I fell in love with PeopleBrowsr

Thursday, 22 January 2009, 19:53 | Category : Technology, marketing
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(cross-posted to PeopleBrowsr blog)
Grouping
I learned from @ValdisKrebs that I am a connector and a boundary spanner. So I was already using Twitter to follow people from many different networks that interest me. But it was getting hard to get what I needed from a single stream. PeopleBrowsr allows me to tag-group my different networks. When [...]

Social Media Fundraising Success

Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 10:31 | Category : Philanthropy, Social Change, Technology
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Epic Change ran a fundraising campaign over twitter this thanksgiving – #tweetsgiving!
They raised over their target of $10,000 in 48 hours. The money is intended for building a classroom in Tanzania. While the lure of social media promise for fundraising continues to elude many, there are a few hopeful and stellar examples of success.
I believe [...]

Entering Social Spaces Online

Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 13:37 | Category : Coaching, Community, Philanthropy, marketing
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Seems like each week there are new social media spaces to join and participate in. And lots of people help others learn and adopt online social practices. Each space has its own nuance on social practices. There are general rules of thumb, sure. But each site – even a cluster within a site – is [...]