Articles I have shared

March 11, 2010

• Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter
  March 11, 2010
• Three Ways To Ensure Your Social Media Efforts Create Profitable Growth

  From Andy Birol: Recently, I ranted about how blogging and tweeting are often incompatible with generating qualified leads or closed sales (“To Tweet or to Sell”).  But if you run a business, how do you know if your tweeting and blogging are making you money?  Or simply

  March 11, 2010
• Minnesota's Proposed "State Webmaster" is Giving Microsoft Agita

  Out in the great state of Minnesota, the forward-thinking legislature there is attempting, by statute, to create an official position of state webmaster, so that there's one single point person who is responsible for maintaining and spreading public data on the web.

  March 11, 2010
• Lullabot: Drupal Voices 80: Yves Chedemois on the History and Future of CCK

  Yves Chedemois (aka "yched") talks about how he became the co-maintainer of the Content Construction Kit (CCK) along with KarenS. He also talks about the early days of CCK, and the co-evolution along with the Views. Yched also talks a bit about his motivation for continuing to work on a project such as CCK, and the challenges of working on it.

  March 11, 2010
• Tiger Woods hires Ari Fleischer.

  The New York Post reports that golfer Tiger Woods has hired former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer to help repair his public image:

  March 11, 2010
• Is America On the Verge of A Co-Creation Invasion?

  Last week we talked about managing split teams with Danny Wong of Blank Label, a site for creating custom men's dress shirts and a startup in the growing field of co-creation.

  March 11, 2010
• The State Department's Brand-New Opinion-Driven Global Data Visualization Thingy

  Credit: State.gov
  This morning, the U.S. State Department rolled a new project that they developed in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for New Media.

  March 11, 2010
• Noveck: Fighting Short-Term Thinking Through Deep Participation

  Credit: The Long Now Foundation
  The Long Now Foundation is the group of folks out in San Francisco who concern themselves with considering how the world might play out over the next 10,000 years, so it makes sense that when Deputy U.S.

  March 11, 2010
• The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

  Shared by Riche

  March 11, 2010
• Conyer's Wife Sentenced to Three Years

  Monica Conyers, the wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), was sentenced to 37 months in prison for taking bribes, the Detroit News reports. She "is the only Detroit elected official convicted so far in a long-running corruption investigation that has netted 10 guilty pleas."

  March 11, 2010