The Twitter effect
I just finished experiencing the Challenge Your World event with Guy Kawasaki in Montreal entirely through Twitter. What was this event? Rendez-vous 09 – A featured event of Global Entrepreneurship Week and Challenge Your World I wasn’t able to attend tonight’s event, but just by reading the live Tweeting (and vigouous ReTweeting), the Twitterverse was able gave me a real sense of the energy in a room filled with over 500 attendees. All proceeds of the evening benefited CARE Canada and according to the latest Challenge Y

Difference between online and offline communites – is there one?l
People (i.e., my non-geeky friends) often ask me why I am so fascinated by social media.  I almost always answer “it’s the sense community that it offers”.   I know… I know  – that’s a lame answer but it’s what everyone says, right? I needed to come up with a better and more meaningful version of that answer. Let’s talk about offline communities: I came across an article on Re-Nest (originally from an article in the New York Times) about a growing new tr

The future of real time and open collaboration: Google Wave
First of all What is Google Wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when. A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact wit