Two thousand nine is history, so it’s time to look forward to a busy year of conferences and events. Here are a few to consider:Social Media Conference, a business event for the social media industry, comes to the Miami Beach Convention Center January 27-29.BarCamp Miami, a gathering of geeks to…
Rising up from a rather sleepy 2008, 2009 was a banner year for social media in Miami. Heck, social media became so important, the Miami New Times decided to hire a local freelance writer to dish on the scene! Here’s an overview:1. ClubsSocial Media Club South Florida covered the gamut…
Yours truly recently dealt with an American Airlines screw up that caused her to miss a trip to Hawaii. So after writing a blog post, starting a thread on a local travel community forum and filling out an official contact form to airline customer relations, all that was left was…
Ah, New Year’s Eve in South Beach — pocketbook gouging at its finest! Club buzz says Lady Gaga is the hottest sold-out party in the nation this New Year’s Eve. LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel is charging $800 general admission — drinks, food, and party favors not included — quite…
Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return results on Google, whereas the Son of God…
Miami startup Scrapblog is apparently saying bye-bye to Silicon Beach and moving its physical office to the San Francisco area, according to word on the street. Though the company has not yet made an official announcement, everybody and their grandmother is talking about the impending transition. It’s all over Twitter…
The year came to a close rather quietly with a laid-back cocktail party at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove on December 16.According to Refresh Miami co-founder Brian Breslin, the group has grown considerably this year — by about fifty percent, with more than 2,000 people subscribed to updates.Topics in…
Very few of us have gone down the yellow brick road to see the wizard behind the curtain. But Gus Moore, owner and publisher of Miami Beach 411, the area’s largest travel website, will have lunch at the Googleplex December 21.Moore has opened up a thread on the site’s community…
Hugh Macleod is a renaissance man. Cartoonist, artist, blogger, social media marketer and friend of geeks, he’s pretty damn good at everything he does, which lately involved an inspirational, no-nonsense advice book on being creative, Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity. The book is now a Wall Street…
No holiday would be complete without free booze, and as always, Miami New Times didn’t disappoint. The tweetup was held at Waxy O’Connor’s by the river, coinciding with another Miami Music Festival gig.The Scenestress (@newtimesstreet) arrived to hand out name tags, but not many @ signs were visible. Present were a handful…
Although the year in social media in Miami has been no laughing matter, the South Florida club decided to end 2009 at John Martin’s last night with Freddy Stebbins’s comedy show. But first, there was the usual mingling and networking, which this month included the guys behind a Cuban social…
Andrew Nelson (@andrewnelson) found a new way to explore Miami that didn’t involve a glossy brochure or lengthy travel guide. Instead, he crowdsourced his travel plans on Twitter, relying on the advice of locals to plan his five-day itinerary, almost all of it spontaneous.Nelson, a contributing writer for National Geographic…
It’s the holidays, so expect more socializing and imbibing to wrap up a busy year in local geekdom. Here are a couple of events going on in the 305:Social Media Club South Florida celebrates the season this Thursday, December 10, at John Martin’s Irish Pub and Restaurant in Coral Gables,…
Maria de los Angeles was in Los Angeles this week, representing the 305 as a Ford Fiesta agent at the LA Auto Show.The Ford Fiesta Movement campaign started in April, when the company gave a Euro spec car to 100 social media types across the country for six months. Yours…
Davide Di Cillo, a designer and entrepreneur based in Fort Lauderdale, wants you to have fun this holiday season, so he designed Christmasfy Me for the iPhone. It’s easy to use: take a picture of a friend and drag a Santa hat, beard and a “Merry Christmas” sign from the…
Today is Black Friday, the nation’s biggest retail shark feeding. If you don’t feel like getting mauled by other shoppers in the malls today, you’ve still got time to find a special holiday gift for the geek in your life. Here are some suggestions, all online, of course.Don’t brave the…
Riptide already introduced readers to Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) when we interviewed Robert Murray (@robertmurray) earlier this month. At long last, the Camillus House fundraiser took place on Thursday, November 19 at luxe Club 50, located in the Viceroy Hotel on Brickell.Rising high above the rest of the…
Not all geeks are pudgy, sex-starved dudes who sit at the computer all day. In fact, some are hot. But hot or not, the stereotype of the socially awkward technology nerd is no exaggeration. Boys will be boys. Put a pair of tits in front of a geek, and the…
Held November 18 at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove, Refresh Miami was tame but very tropical. The location just about upstaged last month’s meeting at the Mayfair Hotel, what with the Mutiny being a grand dame of the 1980s, notorious for drug activity and crazy parties when Coconut Grove…
Vzillion, a Miami startup based on Brickell Avenue, is quietly hovering right now not just on the edge of Biscayne Bay, but on the verge of something big. Vzillion stands for “virtually limitless” — limitless as in millions of possibilities and applications in what company president and founder Antonio Collier…
Patrick Alexander loves the work of French novelist Marcel Proust so much, he’s bringing him back to life today @Proustlive.But the romance between author and reader had a rocky start. Alexander, a British guy who settled in France with his family during the ’70s, had no telephone or television to…
This month’s Social Media Club South Florida was a massive tweetup to wish Social Fresh Cruise guests a warm bon voyage, Miami style. The event took place November 11 at the Doubletree Grand Hotel on Biscayne Bay.Joining the well-wishers were local organizations Refresh Miami, the Association for Women in Communications, the Public…
