Welcome to Episode #28, Part 2 of Being Buff – Marketing the Social Economy – The ConsciousImages Podcast for Monday Nov. 24, 2008.  This episode: Being Buff stops by Podcamp Ottawa 2 and talks with agent Smith (no, not the guy from The Matrix).

·        Welcome to show #28, Part 2.

·        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.

First show since Obama got elected!!

Attended Podcamp Ottawa 2.  Organized by Mark Blevis, Bob Goyetche, Andrea Ross, Mauricio Ortolani.

Take aways:

·        Getting together face-to-face is what it’s all about.  Use social media tools to help you do more of that.

·        Talk to anyone and everyone at events.  You can learn something from everyone.  For example, I learned about John Chow who, I’m told, makes $30,000 a month from his Vancouver-based blog.

·        Today, as always, power and freedom comes from making your self a trust agent. However, the internet makes it much way easier to do this because a key part of becoming a trust agent is giving away valuable stuff for free and the internet allows you to give away limitless digital stuff.  Want to more about what a trust agent is and how to become one? Listen to this episode’s conversation…

·        Looking for place to upload your video podcasts? Don’t just think YouTube.  Also think about BlipTV, Vimeo, and Viddler.

Conversation (not interview- thanks Mitch Joel) about Trust Agents with Julien Smith who is writing a book on the subject with Chris Brogran.

Being Buff #28, The Final Show, Nov. 10, 2008

This is the last weekly episode of my weekly podcast Being Buff for the following reasons:

1) I have decided to focus on my blog and really try and see if I can grow a community here.

2) Blog content gets indexed by Google making it much easier to share than audio in podcasts which doesn’t get indexed.

3) The blog has been drawing comments whereas the podcast has not.

4) I want to start experimenting with video blogging.

So that’s it. I will still produce Being Buff when I get the chance to get some really great audio but until then – check out the blog.

Welcome to Episode #28, Part 2 of Being Buff – Marketing the Social Economy – The ConsciousImages Podcast for Monday Nov. 24, 2008.  This episode: Being Buff stops by Podcamp Ottawa 2 and talks with agent Smith (no, not the guy from The Matrix).

·        Welcome to show #28, Part 2.

·        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.

First show since Obama got elected!!

Attended Podcamp Ottawa 2.  Organized by Mark Blevis, Bob Goyetche, Andrea Ross, Mauricio Ortolani.

Take aways:

·        Getting together face-to-face is what it’s all about.  Use social media tools to help you do more of that.

·        Talk to anyone and everyone at events.  You can learn something from everyone.  For example, I learned about John Chow who, I’m told, makes $30,000 a month from his Vancouver-based blog.

·        Today, as always, power and freedom comes from making your self a trust agent. However, the internet makes it much way easier to do this because a key part of becoming a trust agent is giving away valuable stuff for free and the internet allows you to give away limitless digital stuff.  Want to more about what a trust agent is and how to become one? Listen to this episode’s conversation…

·        Looking for place to upload your video podcasts? Don’t just think YouTube.  Also think about BlipTV, Vimeo, and Viddler.

Conversation (not interview- thanks Mitch Joel) about Trust Agents with Julien Smith who is writing a book on the subject with Chris Brogran.

Being Buff #28, The Final Show, Nov. 10, 2008

This is the last weekly episode of my weekly podcast Being Buff for the following reasons:

1) I have decided to focus on my blog and really try and see if I can grow a community here.

2) Blog content gets indexed by Google making it much easier to share than audio in podcasts which doesn’t get indexed.

3) The blog has been drawing comments whereas the podcast has not.

4) I want to start experimenting with video blogging.

So that’s it. I will still produce Being Buff when I get the chance to get some really great audio but until then – check out the blog.

Welcome to Episode #28, Part 2 of Being Buff – Marketing the Social Economy – The ConsciousImages Podcast for Monday Nov. 24, 2008.  This episode: Being Buff stops by Podcamp Ottawa 2 and talks with agent Smith (no, not the guy from The Matrix).

·        Welcome to show #28, Part 2.

·        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.

First show since Obama got elected!!

Attended Podcamp Ottawa 2.  Organized by Mark Blevis, Bob Goyetche, Andrea Ross, Mauricio Ortolani.

Take aways:

·        Getting together face-to-face is what it’s all about.  Use social media tools to help you do more of that.

·        Talk to anyone and everyone at events.  You can learn something from everyone.  For example, I learned about John Chow who, I’m told, makes $30,000 a month from his Vancouver-based blog.

·        Today, as always, power and freedom comes from making your self a trust agent. However, the internet makes it much way easier to do this because a key part of becoming a trust agent is giving away valuable stuff for free and the internet allows you to give away limitless digital stuff.  Want to more about what a trust agent is and how to become one? Listen to this episode’s conversation…

·        Looking for place to upload your video podcasts? Don’t just think YouTube.  Also think about BlipTV, Vimeo, and Viddler.

Conversation (not interview- thanks Mitch Joel) about Trust Agents with Julien Smith who is writing a book on the subject with Chris Brogran.

Being Buff #28, The Final Show, Nov. 10, 2008

This is the last weekly episode of my weekly podcast Being Buff for the following reasons:

1) I have decided to focus on my blog and really try and see if I can grow a community here.

2) Blog content gets indexed by Google making it much easier to share than audio in podcasts which doesn’t get indexed.

3) The blog has been drawing comments whereas the podcast has not.

4) I want to start experimenting with video blogging.

So that’s it. I will still produce Being Buff when I get the chance to get some really great audio but until then – check out the blog.

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.