Mon, 3 November 2008 Being Buff #27, VoteTodayOhio! Welcome to Episode #27 of Being Buff – Marketing the Social Economy – The ConsciousImages Podcast for Monday Nov 3., 2008.  This week: Being Buff takes a ride to the mountaintop, and the polls, with VoteTodayOhio.   ·        Welcome to show #27 ·        Phone Number:  206-202-6340 ·        Email: consciousimages(at)gmail(dot)com ·        iTunes!!   6 for 6 letter writing campaign for the Congo.   Please join 6 for 6 Facebook group  – and write – and encourage others to do so.   Blog page devoted to the campaign.     ·        Testing social media monitoring tool Radian 6 at work. ·        www.twittervotereport.com from post on Beth Kanter’s blog. Getting people to use Twitter to report voting problems in tomorrow’s U.S. election - like long lines and broken machines. (Using the hashtag #votereport.) ·        Gartner study saying that social networks will replace some government functions. ·        Knight News Challenge: successful social media case study. Heidi Miller gives stats on episode #127 of Six Pixels of Separation with Mitch Joel, o       What they did: Created The Garage, a Drupal-based interactive social network for applicants to connect and share; created Friendfeed room, Twitter account, Seesmic videos; blogger and podcast outreach; used Facebook and Upcoming.org to promo live meetups. o       What results they got: The Garage has over 1000 users and 350 projects; 120,000 mentions on Google on 2008; increased blog posts over last year from 20 to 200 over last year; 400 people came out to meetups. ·        Mafia Boy’s book – How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken. ·        U.S. election, Sarah Palin punked by the Masked Avengers. Audio put on YouTube and the first one that showed up in Google results got 317,000 views.   Interview with Canadian Obama campaign volunteer, Pam Kapoor, working with VoteTodayOhio.  Money raised using ActBlue. Direct download: Being_Buff_27.VoteTodayOhio.Nov03-08.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:21 PM Comments[0]

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Welcome to Episode #27 of Being Buff – Marketing the Social Economy – The ConsciousImages Podcast for Monday Nov 3., 2008.  This week: Being Buff takes a ride to the mountaintop, and the polls, with VoteTodayOhio.

 

·        Welcome to show #27

·        Phone Number:  206-202-6340

·        Email: consciousimages(at)gmail(dot)com

·        iTunes!!

 

6 for 6 letter writing campaign for the Congo.

 

Please join 6 for 6 Facebook group  – and write – and encourage others to do so.

 

Blog page devoted to the campaign.

 

 

·        Testing social media monitoring tool Radian 6 at work.

·        www.twittervotereport.com from post on Beth Kanter’s blog. Getting people to use Twitter to report voting problems in tomorrow’s U.S. election - like long lines and broken machines. (Using the hashtag #votereport.)

·        Gartner study saying that social networks will replace some government functions.

·        Knight News Challenge: successful social media case study. Heidi Miller gives stats on episode #127 of Six Pixels of Separation with Mitch Joel,

o       What they did: Created The Garage, a Drupal-based interactive social network for applicants to connect and share; created Friendfeed room, Twitter account, Seesmic videos; blogger and podcast outreach; used Facebook and Upcoming.org to promo live meetups.

o       What results they got: The Garage has over 1000 users and 350 projects; 120,000 mentions on Google on 2008; increased blog posts over last year from 20 to 200 over last year; 400 people came out to meetups.

·        Mafia Boy’s book – How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken.

·        U.S. election, Sarah Palin punked by the Masked Avengers. Audio put on YouTube and the first one that showed up in Google results got 317,000 views.

 

Interview with Canadian Obama campaign volunteer, Pam Kapoor, working with VoteTodayOhio.  Money raised using ActBlue.