Experimenting With Crowd Sourcing
Crowd sourcing has been a hot subject for a while now. While we have followed it for a long time we have never fully figured out how to integrate it into what we do. This isn’t for lack of a desire. We’re starting to think about creative ways to leverage crowd sourcing for different purposes [...]
Tagging Companies: Startup Company vs. Interactive Agency’
Every time we organize a Social Matchbox event we provide some very specific instructions about who can come and who can’t. A DC Startup Company can come, but a DC Interactive Agency can’t (unless they are accepted as a sponsor of the event). Unlike the rest of the events out there we curate the list of attendees to [...]
Intangible Signs of Recovery
While many of us are clinging to every word written or spoken by members of the media with an angle for insights regarding when we can expect for things to get back to normal, there are a few intangible signs of recovery that have begun to emerge. Among them is the recent return of [...]
What Would Your Obituary Say About You?
Someone asked me that seemingly akward question yesterday: If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, would you feel satisfied with the life that you have lived up until this point? Without hesitation I said yes. While I’ve lived a life that has been far from a model one that I would encourage [...]
Being The Underdog Isn’t Always A Bad Thing
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with my friend Aaron Brazell who posted some reflections on that conversation over on technosailor today. It got me to thinking about what he and I talked about a bit more. My perspective then and now is that DC is where it is at and California is [...]
Next Stop on the DC Social Media Express, DC Wine Country
And for our next magic trick we’ll turn DC into a competitor to the California Wine Country. If you are in town on August 29th you may want to check out Tech Adventure DC. They are chartering a bus out to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sounds fun.
We asked, Julius Genachowski Answered (Sort-of)
Yesterday, in a post titled “Uncle Sam Needs To Meet His Web 2.0 Neighbors” we called for Team Uncle Sam to do a better job of reach out to people in the local tech community. Today’s quote of Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, published by GigaOM suggests that at least one leader in the Federal government is [...]
Uncle Sam Needs To Meet His Web 2.0 Neighbors
Over the last few years I’ve been involved in a ton of different discussions, events and even companies (as an advisor) that call themselves Web 2.0 companies. For a while I started to wonder if I had started to get caught up in all of the hype. I traveled to New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco and other cities and found that it [...]
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