Anyone who follows me on Twitter probably knows that I haven’t been having very much fun lately.  I’m the Fundraising Chair for Alpha Phi Omega, a community service fraternity here at IUP.  I have what should be a pretty easy job description - make the fraternity money.  I had a few ideas of things I [...]

So here it is - my little dream has come one step further.  What is that dream?  To see every business engaging their customers online.  The catalysts?  Small businesses.
I’ll be real and say that there are a LOT of social media consultants out there.  Some of them are very good at what they do.  Some [...]

You can take a look at my FriendFeed stream today and find out that I’ve used both Gmail, Yahoo and Facebook today - not because I posted or tweeted this myself, but thanks to a tracker I installed for Wakoopa, a site that aims to socialize our application usage.  Going through the public stream, I [...]

 
Justin Kownacki, a Podcamp Pittsburgh co-founder. (Image credit: pittprjns)
This past weekend I attended my very first podcamp, Podcamp Pittsburgh 3.  All I can say is this - if a Podcamp has even half the energy of PCPGH3, it’s definitely worth going to.
Here are the sessions I attended:

“Making Social Media Visible” by Michael Munz
“Blogging 201: Blogging [...]

Today is Blog Action Day 2008, a day when hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of bloggers will be asked to raise awareness for this year’s issue: poverty.  Poverty is an epidemic in many parts of the world; in fact, half the world’s population (more than 3 billion people) lives on a meager $2.50 per day [...]