Chris Brogan, considered a social media rock star by many, will visit Southwest Florida to speak at a Twestival event in Sanibel this Saturday at 10 a.m. Twestivals are Twitter-based grassroots fundraising events that take place all over the world on assigned dates. A social media veteran for more than ten…
You know social media is working when realtors look to geeks. BarCamp has become a meet-up model for the sales set. The first one took place four years ago in Palo Alto, California. It was named for the computer programming term foobar (not to be confused with FUBAR). These geeks gathered for a…
The South Florida Twitter community is as varied here as types of palm trees. They might all look the same, but they’re not. Twitter, the social networking and conversation tool that has changed the way people communicate all over the world, is particularly buzzing here in the tri-county area with…
Geeks don’t hide behind their Twitter accounts. And they do often come out from behind their computer screens. In the last three years the tech and social media communities have grown fast. There are all kinds of get-togethers for brainstorming, networking and yes — just plain socializing. Two of these meetups take…
Editor’s Note: Maria de Los Angeles will be writing about social media for Riptide. The title of her scribbling, Silicon Beach, refers to….well you know, you geek! There’s a different kind of silicon in Miami and no, it’s not inside boob implants. This gooey stuff is virtual and social. It’s…
