Social Honeycomb

Twitter is Broken for Me… Grrr

So apparently Twitter is working for everyone but me right now. I’m not thrilled. Twitter is being bad. I’d prefer it to be good. I guess my thing this week is making horrible little videos. See me grrr:

TotSpot and InternshipRatings.com at Web Inno 18

I was gabbing a lot at Web Inno last night, so I didn’t have too much time to take video. Luckily, I did manage to capture Michael from TotSpot and the Lauren/Stephanie dynamic duo of InternshipRatings.com with the Flip.

TotSpot is a scrapbook-like social site that allows parents to safely share all things “my cute kids” with friends and family. I obviously only got a really brief overview, but the site seems cute and certainly of interest to new and eternally excited parents. Thinking back to some of the choice photos from my early teen years, I’m thinking my parents would totally use this site to blackmail me… But oh, how I would get them back. Check the footage:

InternshipRatings.com wasn’t presenting at the event, but I’ve really enjoyed seeing Lauren Grunstein and Stephanie Gurtman, two Boston University students, take an idea and run with it over the past year. I met these two at last year’s PodCamp Boston 2 and since then they’ve launched their site and are seeing a fantastic level of participation from students across the country. The premise is that students go on this site and rate/tell all about their internship experiences at various companies across various industries. The site also serves as an advice hub for students curious about internships and career paths. Take a look:

This post can also be found on SHIFT’s blog http://snackablepr.com. (And yes, it’s important to know what people’s favorite snacks are.)

How I Felt About Web Inno 18

This is so video diary-esque, but I wanted to say loud and proud that I had a fantastic time at Web Inno 18 and definitely plan to attend more of these events. As I say in the video (which is long-winded and in which I think I say “psyched” about 17.4 times), I just love the energy around emerging businesses and startups in this space and I had a blast seeing it all in action tonight. Special thanks to my rockin’ client 211(me) for letting me loiter at their table and help explain their personalized mobile mashup service to interested passersby.

Web Innovators Group, you are teh cool.

[UPDATE: Allen Stern has alerted me that beyond saying “psyched” too much, I also say “you know” roughly 10,934 times in this video. Thanks for the heads up, Allen. This is why I don’t make many videos…]

Minutes…

This is the only time you’ll get these minutes.  Are you doing what you want, or at least what you need to do to get where you’d like to be?

My Favorite Childhood Story

Should You Be in My Google Reader?

Like I often do with my apartment, I’ve let my Google Reader get a bit untidy.  Like my fridge, it’s emptier than I want it to be.  Like my closet, it has some great things in there, but I could always use more.

So, can you help me fix up my Google Reader?  Should your blog be in there?  I’m interested in reading pearls of wisdom from blogs about social media, social networking, Web 2.0, public relations, marketing, mobile/wireless, hot products, geekery, good advice, fun events to attend, etc.

I definitely have some excellent blogs in my reader already, like PR-Squared, Chris Brogan, Web Strategy by Jeremiah and SheGeeks, but maybe you fit in there too or maybe you have a list of blogs you think I’d like.  I want my reader to be so packed full of brilliance that I don’t know what to do with myself.

Can you help?

Wordle is Sort of Fun

My friend Juliana showed me Wordle the other day and I’ve sort of enjoyed playing around with it. I say “sort of” because it doesn’t exactly work the way I want.

With Wordle, you enter a URL (for your blog or your del.icio.us page or whatever) and it produces a word cloud that you can tweak. You can choose from a bunch of fonts, colors and layouts, making it fun to play with as you match your cloud to your mood or style. However, you can’t input different pages of a site or specific posts on your blog (or at least I can’t). It only chooses words from the most recent couple of posts on your home page, regardless of whether you enter a specific page or not.

This is annoying for me because sometimes I blog about things that are sort of random. (OK, I pretty much always do…) When I first tried Wordle, all my words had to do with my recent post about honey bees and ice cream, so I felt my Wordle cloud wasn’t all that representative of my blog or myself. And I like customized Web 2.0 toys to represent mah style, yo. Don’t you?

Anyway, here’s my current Wordle cloud anyway. Sort of fun, sort of whatever. Try it out.

4×4 Meme: Summer Edition

Miss Sarah Wurrey recently tagged me in her “Sum-Sum-Summertime” post, and since I’m relaxing on the couch tonight, I thought, oh yeah, tonight is the night I reveal my summer 4×4, ooh baby, ooh baby.

Wanna know my thoughts about summer? Check it out.

4 Things I Love About Summer:

1. More hours of daylight
2. Natural tans
3. SYTYCD
4. Fireworks

4 Things I Hate About Summer:

1. Humidity
2. Air conditioners set to -47 degrees
3. People on the bus/train smelling like a bucket of sweat
4. Missing the freedom of having a “summer vacation”

4 Summer Foods I Love

1. Ice cream
2. Watermelon
3. Burritos
4. Lemonade (it counts)

4 Summer Looks to Avoid

Now let’s pay this meme forward. Tell us what you think about all things summer:

Alana Taylor

Doug Haslam

Corvida Raven

Tim Brunelle

It’s True: Amanda Gravel Can’t Make Coffee

We can thank Alexa “the birthday girl” Scordato for this funny, slightly embarrassing video. And yes, it’s true. I don’t know how to make coffee. However, I think I make a pretty cute Fail Whale.

Enjoy:

Social Honeycomb Helps the Honey Bees

Back in April I posted about the Help the Honey Bees campaign from Haagen Dazs. After I posted, I went out looking for the special ice cream I had read about on their site that supposedly was the key to my helping out the bees. I couldn’t find it anywhere! Totally discouraged, I guess I put it out of my head and hoped that somewhere, someone was eating that bee-helping flavor.

Fast-forward (because life is a cassette tape) to a couple days ago in my local Shaw’s Supermarket where I picked up a pint of Haagen Dazs Orchard Peach Sorbet. I love peach-flavored treats, so I just grabbed it and went on my way. Cut to last night when I was indulging like a peach-addicted maniac, when I noticed I had purchased a pint of Help the Honey Bees sorbet! Social Honeycomb <3 Bees and Peaches. I explain (with Santogold- Creator playing in the background):

And here I am eating my sorbet, rambling about how I love the flavor of peaches and how good it feels to help the bees (ignore my laptop fan going crazy near the end):

P.S. I’m not drunk in either video.
P.P.S. Help the bees.