Google+ Hangouts at SMW13: Live Tonight And More!
We’ve got some big news, and we want you to join us. Grab your laptop, and get ready for SMW13 interaction on a new level… SMW13 is partnering up with HuffPost Live Today, at 5pm EST, our media partner HuffPost Live covers how safeguarding free expression and an Open Internet is still a critical issue….
Extended: Google+ Hangout Idea Submissions
Sometimes time IS on your side. We’ve been receiving some incredible submission for our Google+ Hangout contest. So much so, that we want to see more (and give you more opportunities to win that $5,000 prize)! We’re extending the submission deadline to Wednesday, February 6th! So, start brainstorming- and if you need some inspiration, here…
Our Top 5 Google Hangout Apps
One of the things we love about Google+ Hangouts is the great functionality built into it. Here at the SMW offices, the Crowdcentric team makes good use of Hangouts regularly. Now, with our partnership with Google+ and our contest inviting you to get creative with the platform, we thought it time to highlight some of…
We’ve seen President Obama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama on it. NFL.com incorporated it in their fantasy football rollout, and Huffington Post has integrated it into a new segment of their services called HuffPost Live. Its giving Skype a run for its money with connecting loved ones and in the work place. Google+…
It gets better. That’s the message Brian Pines, one of the directors of the It Gets Better Project and Ryan Lombardini, digital marketing manager for The Trevor Project seek to share with members of the LGTBQ community. For the It Gets Better Project, It began with a single YouTube video by syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage and his partner Terry…
We like innovation. And we like collaboration. We love it when we see people positing ideas that incorporate the two into current business ideas. How can you innovate in today’s business world? What does crowdsourcing mean for you as both a worker and a business? When we saw Steve Faktory’s posts and commentary, we knew…
It’s Pride Week globally! To celebrate their sponsorship in Toronto, Google+ has filmed 6 portraits of the local LGBT community with Sundance award winning documentary filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig. The series is called ‘Together: Stories by Pride & Google+’ and each short focuses on personal stories from individuals sharing some insights on various aspects of their…
The 2012 Communicating the Museum Conference is starting in 3 days (28 June), but some of the speakers are already around (can’t blame them – NYC is gorgeous). I managed to talk with one of them, Jackson Pellow, from the Australian National Maritime Museum. We talked about how to conquer the international museum audiences with quirky videos. Find out…
Now that we’ve had some time to absorb the changes in the space during Q3, let’s take a look back at the big announcements, compare the new landscape to the changes from the second quarter, and project what will have the most impact for Q4 of 2011. In a sentence, Facebook’s f8 developer conference contained more…
I loved the article by Nick Carr a few years ago that asked the question – Is Google Making us Stupid? Nick likened the use of Google and other tools as training us how to “power browse” and not really read effectively. So I have been thinking about a parallel article that would apply in…