TweetDeck and Evernote, a Match Made in Heaven

June 28, 2009

Well, we obviously all know what Twitter is … and some of you may or may not know what Evernote is.  If you don’t the you should definitely head over and check it out.  It is an awesome organization, backup, creativity, etc tool that has tons of possibilities to be a great tool for many [...]

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Event: NextGenWeb Re-Launch Party

June 17, 2009

As I am sure most of you have already heard, one of our friends and terrific DC tech and social media community member, Shana Glickfield (@dcconcierge) is the blogger and online community director of NetxGenWeb (@nextgenweb), a site that is
an open discussion forum of how broadband, and the networks that support it, affect our lives. [...]

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Are Technology Podcasts a Thing of the Past

June 6, 2009

I can recall the day a friend of mine turned me on to podcasts, probably like 4 years ago on a trip to Charolettsville, VA.  Back then I was fascinated and drank up all I could get.  Back then though, it was not as easy as heading over to iTunes and subscribing with one click.  [...]

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Recap: Frederick Chamber of Commerce’s Social Media Conference

June 5, 2009

As I wrote about a bit last week, I had the great pleasure of hosting a session at the Frederick Chamber of Commerce’s Social Media Conference today.  It was a great time.  Before I get too far into this, I would be remiss if I did not take the time to send out a big [...]

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DC Ranks Fourth for Technology Hot Spots

June 5, 2009

Not that we all dont know this, becuase as far as I am concerened the DC area is hands down the best place to be for social media and technology   Ok, maybe not the best, but I like it dammit.  As many of us have witnessed there has been a really special movement [...]

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Event: The Cool Twitter Conferences World Tour

June 4, 2009

I saw this event pop onto my radar recently and wanted to pass it along to all of you.  A local DC technology group, call the Cool Blue Company is hosting what it is calling The Cool Twitter Conferences World Tour.  It’s first stop on the tour is right here in Washington, DC at one [...]

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Apps for Democracy – Social Citizen Award

June 2, 2009

As many of you are aware, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs has followed up his successful work with Apps for Democracy that he did in concert with the local DC government, with Apps for Democracy Community Edition.
Now, DC wants to hear citizens’ ideas about problems that could be solved through technology, as well as their ideas [...]

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Event: Frederick County Social Media Conference

June 1, 2009

It seems that so many of the events that we really see and hear about are found “close” in to the city.  Sure we have some events in the Rockville area but that has been as far as I have seen them go … or maybe as far as I would go   In [...]

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Recap: Amazon Web Services Startup Tour

May 28, 2009

As many of you know, or maybe not, I am a huge fan and proponent of Amazon’s Web Services. A couple of years ago, Amazon started its offering with S3 (Simple Storage Solution) and has continued to add another great service after another. Back then I even went so far as to dream [...]

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Let’s Kickstarter a Local Friend on to Success

May 22, 2009

A few weeks back I came across a post about a new service called Kickstarter. It looked pretty cool and I noted it as something I wanted to write a post about it to share with my readers here in the local area.  I always like to share things I find that would help [...]

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