This morning, I gave a presentation that was a retrospective on the Twinfluence application I unveiled at last year’s Barcamp Tampa Bay, and unveiled my latest project: VidSquid.  I talked about how to leverage APIs to build social media applications - specifically, strategy for leveraging these applications to build a social media community.
In short, VidSquid [...]

On September 14, 2009 I presented on the topic “Social Media: Strategy for Local Governance”.  Due to many requests, I’m posting the presentation here.  Much of the context will be lost due to the fact that I provide most of the context in my presentations verbally; but hopefully it will be useful to you.

You’ve heard the term “scalability”. Scalability refers to the capacity of a site or service to grow exponentially. Before this term became popular in tech circles, however, it was documented in social network research.
Drs. Duncan Watts and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi literally wrote the book on the subject of the dynamics of scalability (Dr. Barabasi [...]