This week, I’ll be speaking at two very exciting events. Details follow below: MONDAY Ignite NYC III Rocketboom will kickoff the night with “Know Your Meme: The Game Show! Pwn, Win, or Fail!” Hosted by the cast of Know Your Meme: Jamiedubs, Elspethjane, and Yatta. Contestants: Rex Sorgatz (Fimoculous), Gavin Purcell (Attack of the Show …
Call for Proposals | Twitterate
New modes of communication create new meanings, and new narratives. With the rise of the twitterverse, new vocabulary has given way to new modes of dialogue. a canary torsi is currently commissioning the creation of a new work using Twitter + Twitter’s API. Participants will be asked to take 2 existing twitter feeds of 2 …
Social Media Week NYC | Arts + Technology
Join us this Monday, 12-2pm, for a panel about Art and Social Media during Social Media Week. Location: Brand Experience Lab Address: 520 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10012 (map) If you can’t make it on Monday, you can follow along on twitter. Social Media week aims to create an open and inclusive environment …
Online Invoicing and Document Resources for Running your Business
After seeing @juliaxgulia’s question on twitter about creating online invoicing, I started looking for sites that help businesses run. I’ve put together short list of resources and tools that help businesses, freelancers, and other folks collaborate and run organizations. INVOICING For creating and sending invoices, Freshbooks.com is definitely the standard. There are also a few …
New Site Launch | Issue Project Room
Very exciting news – today we launched a new site for Issue Project Room, a non-profit based in Brooklyn. From the site: ISSUE Project Room provides an open and versatile environment in which established and emerging artists conduct, exhibit and perform new and site-specific work. Through an evolving collaboration with curators, artists and educators, ISSUE …
iPhone Apps for the holidays
This is the first article I’m writing from an iPhone. This holiday season my sister graced me with this device. Unfortunately I had to spend several hours unlocking it because I have tmobile. Tmobile however does support iPhones and was able to help me get setup. I’ve also spent some time downloading apps for the …
Geek-a-zine Show | LIVE 12-15-08 – With Peter Radizeski and Jaki Levy
Peter Radizeski and I were recently guests on Jeffrey Powers’ show, Geek-a-zine, on UStream.tv. We spoke about cell phones, the data on them (McCain’s and Obamas Blackberry issues), elections in Estonia, Yahoo email and their new social rollout, the Palm Nova, and a whole lot more. Check out the show below, and catch his show …
WordPress Tutorials, Video Mode
I found a GREAT repository for video tutorials on wordpress – I’ve listed a few below, but make sure to visit SpeckyBoy for theFULL LIST of TUTORIALS. WordPress 2.6 Video Collection via ithemes.com · WordPress Overview › (Basic). · How to edit Posts/Pages › (Basic). · How widgets work › (Basic). · How to Upgrade WordPress Using the Automatic Plugin › (Basic). · How to Add new …
Social Media, Web2.0, and other buzzwords explained
I found this great New Media primer [via Theater North Carolina]. Read this excerpt, then read the full article (link listed below) Deciding if social networking is going to be an asset or liability is dependent on how your company chooses to approach it. Companies who look first to their communications objectives and selectively choose which aspects of …
YouTube Symphony Orchestra : Building a symphony online
YouTube + Google have launched the YouTube Symphony, a place where anyone can audition for Carnegie Hall. A few other places (including the New York Times) are talking about it: I initially read it on Andrew Taylor’s blog, The Artful Manager, but there are many other blogs talking about this great contest. So what is it? …
Setting up Facebook Ads: Part 1
This past month, I setup a facebook ad campaign for a company. There are many who say that facebook ads do not work. For the purpose of this article, I will disagree with them. The goal for the campaign was to generate awareness about the company on facebook, and it worked. Â I was able to …
Adding Images to your WordPress Pages and Posts
This video tutorial will show you how to add, edit, and mange images within your posts. Watch it below, or watch it here. WordPress Tutorial (2.6.1): Image Upload, Edit, Align and Captio You can find more great video tutorials at Likoma.
We’ve launched Daniel Gwirtzman’s site!
I’m happy to say we’ve officially launched Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company’s new site! Actually, I’m quite impressed with the final product we put together for the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. With the help of great media all around, we were able to piece together a photo gallery, a video gallery, a new subscription system, and …
Great WordPress Plugins for Flickr
[via speckyboy] Flickr and wordpress have really changed the web-0-sphere. They simply make sharing multimedia, photos, and ideas simpler. During my endless search for more great wordpress plugins, I began searching for easy ways to integrate flickr with wordpress, and saw this great article. If you’re looking to integrate photos into your wordpress site, install …
National Arts Marketing Project Conference
This week is the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. For those interested in how the new ways of the web are affecting the arts and beyond read on! The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City published these two very interesting reports – well worth a read. These publications are being discussed at the National Arts …
Sites and Companies I Like
I’ve compiled a list of companies and orgs that make good use of their websites and social networks. If there are some sites you’d like to see added to this list, leave a comment!! The Team Plays Knife Inc Skybetter & Associates Sadlers Wells Nine Inch Nails Nederland Dans Cedar Lake Dance New York City …