Building and Using Your Personal Information Network

So, last time I mentioned the importance of building your Personal Information Network or PIN (PS, thanks for the great comments – keep ‘em coming!). Today I’d like to share an example of how this can work in practice.
I woke up this morning and fired up Google Reader and Twitter first thing to see what [...]

Why and How I Use Twitter

Hi, my name is Chris and I’m…I’m a Twitter addict.
Hi, Chris.
So, yes, I’m a Twitter addict. Just a moment ago I cursed loudly (LOUDLY!) at Twhirl as it pitifully looked at me and told me that Twitter wasn’t talking to it right now because Twitter was so damned busy. So yeah, I need need NEED [...]

Foundations for Strategic Foresight (Slideshow)

Attention Conservation Notice: I’m currently doing research/training in Future Studies, and am collecting helpful online material for this. Ran across this great presentation on Forecasting and am blogging it for future reference.

Intro to Politics 2.0: Online Politics 101

The amazing folks over at e.politics have recently released a new edition of “Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Political Advocacy”, a nicely packaged collections of articles from the site explaining the basics of using social media tools for online political activism and campaigning. This 52pp. FREE PDF book covers everything from [...]

Welcome, BGR Guests

Just a hello to everyone coming here from BlueGrassRoots. I’d like to say thanks to Ben for the link. I’ve been very interested in what’s been going on over at BGR for a while now, and have had some fantastic conversations with Ben about social media tools and progressive activism, and I hope to do [...]

Snoop Zeppelin

It’s officially a good day. Bless the person who thought up this mashup.

I do love me some Snoop. Thanks, Tony.