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  Celebrating U-Fest The last U-Fest I went to was the summer I met my ex-wife. This happened: Wow… I feel old! This year I am going with some awesome friends (tweeps.) Here is my 8Tracks highlighting the bands:

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  Have you check’ed in? Location based social networks are becoming all the rage! From #SXSWi’s #foursquare vs. GoWalla geo-wars to the neon billboards on the Vegas strip of who has checked in, it is obvious this is the way of the future. But are you worried that people know where you are? When it comes to social media, there are [...]

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  Loaded Words Pro-Life, Pro-Choice. Liberal, Conservative. Socialist, Capitalist. Freedom, Fascists. God. The power of words is an interesting thing. Over the last 10 years I have worked in many different campaigns: political, educational, marketing and advocacy. We use these words to invoke a response or make a point: to manipulate the outcome of discourse. They are loaded words. Regardless of your belief, [...]

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  3/38/10 8tracks

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  A Sign of the Times Yesterday I drove past an intersection and caught this man. It really shook me to the core. Is it really getting this bad?

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  Voices of Arizona Many of you know I have spent years in partisan politics. At times the partisan work gets to be too much for me. At the core, I am a community builder with a political opinion. But community is first. Community includes diverse views. I recently have had several observations through my work: The debate is often [...]

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  Harmony & Fame on YouTube I have yet another side project I am working on. But this one is close to my heart. Over the years we have heard many success stories of talent being discovered on YouTube. From Marie Digby to Kina Grannis they have marketed themselves well and have created a great fan base. Well in the Spidel family all [...]

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  Hollywood Wants Control of Your HDTV By Kevin Spidel, Patriot Strategies. The race to get quality content directly to your HDTV has been building for a few years. TiVo now includes podcast aggregation ability, AppleTV includes the ability to watch movies, independent films are distributed via iTunes directly to your TV, and Boxee now aggregates and scrapes the [...]

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  Crowdsourcing Public Policy Listening to StationXtv this morning they mentioned www.MyIdea4CA.com. It is an attempt to harness Twitter and hashtags to Crowdsource Public Policy. It’s been three years since Jeff Howe coined the term “crowdsourcing” in his Wired article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing.” The term, which describes an online, distributed problem solving and production model, is most famously represented [...]

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  The Impact of Social Media On The World Our good friends over at Roost posted a powerful video we felt the need to share. This is a video showcasing the powerful impact of social media on the world. This video, posted on Youtube, then onto Facebook, then onto their blog came to me via a retweet, and now has over 12,000 views! The [...]

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  ESPN Covers Twitter The Shawne Merriman Tweetup that our Managing Partner Kevin Spidel broadcast on USTream was covered on ESPN. Our Kevin makes an appearance at 1:25 of the clip:

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