Blogging should be a core responsibility of a CEO

June 16, 2009

Paul Levy is the CEO and President of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and author of the blog, “Running a Hospital.” Summary: Paul Levy knew nothing about health care, medicine, or running a hospital, yet he still found it fascinating. So he decided to start writing a blog. Paul Levy posts […]

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Photos from RoboGames, the world's largest robot competition

June 14, 2009

Guest blogger Joy Powers here.  On June 13, 2009, David Spark and I headed to the RoboGames in San Francisco.  While David was busy working as the on-screen talent for a documentary piece on the event, I kept myself busy by taking photos: . . . . . . . . . Click here to […]

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The benefits of working for yourself

June 10, 2009

Last night I had dinner with my friend, fellow geek, and former junior high school classmate Andy Ihnatko. Walking back to the car we started discussing the advantages of working for yourself and not working in an office. We’re both big fans of it. You can watch it below, or click over to my Vimeo […]

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Social Media During a Crisis – Interview with Curtis Sliwa, WABC Radio

June 9, 2009

Last week I wrote an article for Mashable entitled “5 Unique Stories of Social Media Saving the Day.” It’s a piece about how social media technologies, most notably Twitter, are being used to connect people in times of need. Tonight, I appeared on air with Curtis Sliwa of WABC Radio in NYC to talk about […]

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Enjoy NBA Finals action via Twitter and more

June 6, 2009

Earlier this week I wrote a pice for Mashable entitled, “4 Ways to Make the NBA Finals More Social.” In it I offer suggestions of how to connect with other fans talking about the game while you’re actually watching the game. On Saturday night, June 6th, I appeared on Patrick Mauro’s “Sports Overnight America Weekend […]

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Defining Web 2.0…Uggh

June 1, 2009

I stumbled across this old video interview of me being interviewed by Chris Heuer, formerly of The Conversation Group (a partner of my firm, Spark Media Solutions) at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco. This was the year they handed out t-shirts that said, “Web 2.0 is __________.” People last year were so […]

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The cool and not-so-cool from TWTRCON San Francisco

May 31, 2009

I attended TWTRCON in San Francisco today. I tweeted away (@dspark) along with a packed conference that just begun its planning eight weeks ago. Just goes to show how successful you can be in the conference industry is if you ride a very successful meme or phenomenon. Here’s a summary of the cool and not-so-cool […]

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Tim Ferriss' tips to how to blog without killing yourself

May 30, 2009

I attended Wordcamp in San Francisco today with my wife and more than 700 other nerds. Tim Ferriss, author of the insanely successful book, “The Four Hour Work Week” opened the conference with some advice on “How to Blog Without Killing Yourself.” Ferriss truly had some great advice for the room of very seasoned bloggers. […]

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Highlights from Interop '09 Las Vegas

May 25, 2009

Last week I was in Las Vegas reporting at Interop ’09 for Riverbed, manufacturers of WAN optimization devices and technology. What I learned from Riverbed, their customers, and partners is solving the problem of quick access to data over a wide area network can have an amazing trickle down effect to the rest of your […]

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Did Craigslist end prostitution on its site, or just make it harder to find?

May 14, 2009

One of the great things about the Internet and Craigslist, is it makes things so much easier to find. And with Craigslist’s “erotic services” section, it was so much easier to find prostitution. No need to make some calls to someone “who knows someone” or go to the bad part of town to find ladies […]

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