TEDxCMU is an independently organized TED event at Carnegie Mellon University. It is taking place on April 4th, 2010 from 10 AM to 5 PM. The theme is this set of talks is FEARLESS.
To tweet about this event, use #TEDxCMU. You can see the twitter steam in this post.
If you didn’t catch it earlier, make sure you check out my interview with the TEDxCMU founders.
I’m very happy and grateful I was selected to attend this event. During the event, I will be taking notes on things I find particularly interesting.
Summary …

This Tuesday I sat down with Yongho Shin and Sachit Gupta, co-founders of TEDxCMU. We chatted for around 15 minutes about the event they’re preparing.
Here’s a brief overview:
TEDxCMU is an independently organized TED event happening at Carnegie Mellon University on Sunday, April 4th, 2010. It will last from 10 AM to 5 PM. The theme is FEARLESS, and I believe they’re truly bringing in some speakers who have no fear!
There’s a lot of hype about the event in the CMU community. I got the founders to answer some of the …

This panel is a part of course 95-800 Measurement and Analysis of Social Media Initiatives at the Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon University. This will be a panel discussion around issues corporations face in acquiring, storing and analyzing data from social media initiatives.
To cover this event live, we will have pictures and notes. If you would like to tweet about this event, please use the hash tag #95800.

(pictures courtesy of and © Manolis Kounelakis)

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To us, there were a few key takeaways from the panel. Before going into the detailed notes, …

Google. Yahoo. Two Internet giants. Any company with an online presence fights to get promoted through these sites. How these sites came to be in this position is the subject of a plethora or literature. But given the competition to be on these sites, another interesting question arises: Do Google and Yahoo need to promote themselves, and if so, where do they do this?
On December 21st, 2009, I took the photo below at Times Square, New York City . In it, we see the two giants side by …

Over the last two months, we have been working together with IABC to prepare the first student-edited version of the Student Connection e-Newsletter. The newsletter has recently been published, and we are very happy with the result. For the ones who are not aware, IABC is a top-class association for business communicators with 16,000 members across the world.
The newsletter features great articles on the topic of social media marketing. We are particularly proud to present you the following two works of distinguished Carnegie Mellon University faculty members:

The Media May …