BlueGlass FL 2010 Conference Announcement

September 24, 2010 By 1 Comment

BlueGlass is hitting up the south east for another amazing conference November 2nd-3rd. You might recall BlueGlass LA just happening a few months ago- well the agenda is set and we’re ready to rock the Hard Rock with BlueGlass FL 2010 :)

Our lineup is amazing and I hope you’ll be there. Who could pass up sunny Ft. Lauderdale, tons of fun and networking, amazingly knowledgable speakers, and industry folks?!

We want all our attendees to leave with more knowledge than they came with, more friends and a light heart.

Check out our BlueGlass 2010 agenda to get a peek at the speakers, and make sure you register soon. Oh yeah, make sure you bring some spare cash… it is the Hard Rock after all :)

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Fleeting Creativity

September 16, 2010 By 1 Comment

I consider myself very creative. I love art, I love reading, I love writing, I love science.

My favorite things to do when I was younger was read read READ. Write children’s stories when I was just a child myself. Draw like I was the best artist in the world (I still beg to differ with my younger self on this one).

Now?

I love putting my thoughts down on an empty page and letting my pen do the wandering. I used to spend a lot of time online; reading blogs for inspiration. After all, I believe that the greatest  inspiration comes not only from within ourselves, but from others as well.

I work in the Internet industry- and while many people abandon their social profiles, blogs and general internet wanderlust during their day jobs, my crawling of the Internet doesn’t really begin until my working hours.

So where does one find inspiration in this case? For some, they consider my job a dream job- and I do too. Work technically isn’t work because it’s something I enjoy. Not to mention, I work on my leadership skills everyday running my team.  But it still takes a toll on my creativity.

My creativity is fleeting faster than the speed of light. It’s playing elusive games- just whispering at the surface of my imagination than vanishing as if it never existed.

I’m not used to this.

I spend my day-time hours maniacally cruising around online in search of what it is that makes my job a success, but in the meantime, it’s such a process that I can’t find the inspiration I need to fuel my night time writings and allow my brain to roam free to paint the pictures that it used to.

I find that sometimes I put my pen to paper and nothing comes out. It’s a struggle to write as we speak- it’s like I’m so used to putting words out in public to hold my online presence in the social media strategies division that I can’t bring honest words to the surface and let out my inner thoughts when I’m by myself.

It’s such a weird paradox too. One would think that you would find more fuel for your fire; more spark by passing over other people’s words and communicating with complete strangers all day, but that isn’t so.

Often it brings you to a greater loss of words than you might have expected.

Does anyone else who works within the Internet industry feel this?

How do you get back in touch with yourself when you’re having trouble bridging the path between your mind and your words?

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Twitter- future media hub

September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Saw info on the new Twitter that’s rolling out. I must say… I’m quite interested in seeing what this is like hands on.

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Oxfam American Hunger Banquet

September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I love all kinds of causes that use new media. There’s something about organizations that understand how to truly leverage social potential with the community that fascinates me.

One campaign in particular has caught my attention- Oxfam American Hunger Banquet. Now, I’ll admit it. I love helping out with organizations, but when we’re all so busy, often times it’s easy to forget or say you’ll do it later. Yes, I’m guilty of this. But one of the great things about this Oxfam organization is that they’re completely mobilizing participants and providing them with EVERYTHING that they need to make this successful.

A centralized social hub.

Toolkits.

Step by step event plans.

A script to follow.

Online calendars to find banquets near you.

Notifications.

EVERYTHING.

They don’t just give you information and throw you out there to fundraise and send in money to “donate to the poor for food.” No. They educate you- they teach you what we’re doing wrong, and give you every opportunity in the world to help.

Pretty much, you have no excuse to ignore this. World hunger is a serious problem- and it’s not because there’s a lack of resources. We have plenty- don’t be fooled. The problem is that we’re not allocating our resources efficiently… but we’re all guilty of that too, aren’t we?

The power of people when they’re banded and united for one cause is pretty amazing- people are competitive by nature, and leveraging that competitiveness and sense of unity at the same time makes for a moving and powerful campaign.

One more awesome thing (which I can’t show you on here because it’s written in Javascript- the embedded video is just the regular version) is that the video on the Oxfam homepage allows you to sign up and participate from right within the video. Perfect. Everything is literally right at your finger tips.

So what are you eating for Thanksgiving? How much food are you wasting? I suggest you look into hosting a hunger banquet. You’ll not only feel good about yourself, but you’re also making a difference- and every person counts.

I am done on my soap box now. Good day.

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Social Media Blackout?

September 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I came across something today about a social media blackout. I have a few things to say about this.

1. By saying that colleges need a social media blackout day, you’re implying that excessive use of social media could be a problem. I totally agree. But a blackout? REALLY? I somehow don’t think this is going to help whatsoever. It’ll mainly just piss off college students. Do I smell a riot?

2. Please tell me that someone remembers TV turn off week in elementary school? You can definitely tell we’re in the 21st century now by what we’re limiting ourselves from. Back then, you got these fun packets to draw and doodle on while you did your TV blackout.

So now what…? Are kids going to be watching TV in their dorms to make up for the social media ban? Wonderful, educators. So well thought out.

3. This certainly cannot translate into a global thing. What about Internet marketers such as myself? I pretty much live online, all day long. If there is something so wrong with utilizing social media often, then I should probably be cuffed and thrown in jail by now.

4. Do they think this will really work? Perhaps proxy servers could get around this?

Anyway. I still have writers block. Sorry… guess you’ll have to look for something interesting another day :)

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Woah.

September 7, 2010 By 5 Comments

I’ve been spreading myself pretty thin lately and as a result, my creativity is suffering and my writing mojo is gone, for the time being. I won’t have a new post on here for another few days. Need to get back my inspiration!

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