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Phonebooth 2.0

sky — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:15:00 +0000

I was minding my own business, getting ready to interview someone, at LeWeb in the “Geek Pad” where Microsoft had given us an area to hang out and connect online, when I noticed Eliane had her Macbook Pro over her head. I didn’t see any rain, so I knew she wasn’t using it as an umbrella, and then I heard her speaking intimately to the Mac.

Since there are hardly any phone booths anymore, she had turned her Mac into a phone booth!

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Backstage Pass- David Spark

sky — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:00:22 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of David Spark, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

David Spark is a new media producer and consultant whose output includes Spark Minute, and he blogs at SparkMinute.com.

[The photo at left was taken at LeWeb in Paris, 2009, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]

You can check David’s Cool and Not-so-Cool post, but in the video, to save time, I edited to focus on the cool!

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Backstage Pass- Ewan Spence

sky — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:00:32 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Ewan Spence, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Ewan blogs at EwanSpence.com. He’s a blogger, author and writer based in Edinborough, Scotland.

[The photo at left was taken at LeWeb in Paris, 2009, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]

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Backstage Pass- Eliane Fiolet

sky — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:00:41 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Eliane Fiolet, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Eliane is cofounder of Ubergizmo. She was a co-organizer of the Traveling Geeks tour to Paris and LeWeb, 2009.

[The photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]

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Backstage Pass- Beth Blecherman

sky — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:00:52 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Beth Blecherman, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Beth comes from the application-development world, founded TechMamas.com and tweets as @techmama.

[The photo at left is by Olivier Ezratty.]

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Backstage Pass- Robin Wauters

sky — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:00:51 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Robin Wauters, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Robin writes at TechCrunch and is the managing editor of virtualization.com. He lives in Brussels.

[The photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepulveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]

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Backstage Pass- Olivier Ezratty

sky — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:00:13 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Olivier Ezratty, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Olivier blogs at Opinions Libres. His photos appear in the Flickr group for the Traveling Geeks. He along with Eliane Fiolet (who was a co-organizer of the Paris trip) was one of our local navigators).

[The photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepulveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa, one of the Traveling Geeks Paris geeks. Yes, that’s the lens on Olivier’s camera.]

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Backstage Pass- Matthew Buckland

sky — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:00:48 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Matthew Buckland, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Matthew writes at MatthewBuckland.com. His favorite color is red.

[The photo at left was provided by Matt Buckland.]

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Backstage Pass- Renee Blodgett

sky — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:00:46 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Renee Blodgett, Co-Founder of Traveling Geeks and organizer of the trip to Paris for LeWeb, in December, 2009.

Renee writes at DownTheAvenue.

[Photo at left is by Beth Blecherman.]

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Backstage Pass- Tom Foremski

sky — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:31 +0000

This is a Backstage Pass interview of Tom Foremski, from Traveling Geeks at LeWeb in Paris, December, 2009.

Tom writes at Silicon Valley Watcher.

[Photo at left is by JD Lasica, from the London 2009 trip.]

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Backstage Pass- Amanda Coolong

sky — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:09:14 +0000

This is the first of my Backstage Pass interviews from Traveling Geeks at LeWeb in Paris, December, 2009.

Amanda writes at TechZulu and is happy to strike up a yoga pose almost anywhere (not in this video, but in the Traveling Geeks Flickr photos).

[Photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepulveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa, one of the geeks on the Paris trip.]

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Backstage Pass- Sky interviews the geeks

sky — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:11:31 +0000

It’s time to pick up your backstage pass for the Traveling Geeks tour. As the “geeks’ geek” I have the enjoyable task of herding the last few animals into the barn before the tour actually takes place. This means (primarily) that I’m handed the web site a couple of weeks before we take off and I make a ton of last-minute additions and adjustments—and have to debug various processes, sometimes over and over. For the Paris trip there were some new and interesting twists because of changes taking place in the social media scene. So let’s go behind the scenes with my recollections and introduction:

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Howard Rheingold- 21st Century Literacies

sky — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:11:40 +0000

Howard Rheingold’s message is that we need to attend to 21st-Century literacies. meaning that we need to know (or learn) how to sort out the good from the bad.

Howard suggests the critical skills are: attention; participation; collaboration; network-savvy and critical consumption (what Howard often calls crap detection).

JD Lasica interviewed Howard in Cambridge [see JD’s blog post] when we were on Traveling Geeks.

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Tech recap from Traveling Geeks

sky — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:11:51 +0000

JD Lasica interviewed me (for socialmedia.biz) about some of the tech we used on the Traveling Geeks trip to London. Topics covered are connectivity using cellular modems (provided by BT), the FeedWordPress plug-in, Flip (Mino and Ultra) video cameras, video streaming (on Nokia n79 using kyte.com), Google Latitude…

You can download and use Google Latitude in the US, but you can’t download Google Latitude in the UK because it is “voluntarily” blocked by BT for privacy reasons (it discloses your location to others).

I just can’t say enough about how much use I get out of the little Flip MinoHD and UltraHD video cameras. I use them for all of my interviews now, and for shooting “trailers” to serve as proposals for projects.

My favorite part of the interview is when I wax poetic about the fact that the technology actually worked while we were on the road. I was really expecting much of it to fail. We really have a wired and wireless world today!

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Reaching Advocates and Influencers

sky — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:00:31 +0000

Rather than blasting out advertising indiscriminately to everyone, firms are finding they can target individuals who like their brand and can influence others to see the brand more positively. There are more and more ways to find out who your brand’s advocates and influencers are. That’s because software is now tying the data together so we can actively decide how to reach and, more importantly interact with, our passionate customers. Social media allow us to openly and transparently interact with and have conversations with our customers.

Susan Bratton, JD Lasica, Renee Blodgett and Robert Scoble discuss these aspects of marketing and customer relations in this roundtable in Cambridge as a part of Traveling Geeks 2009.

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