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Twitter Brings Rescuers to Wounded Iworks’ Colleague – An NBC Report

admin | July 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

Leigh Fazzina was laying on the ground, panicking. Her bike was crushed. Her helmet, which had just flown off her head, had a big dent in it. She was coughing, dry heaving, spitting up dirt. That’s when she turned to

Twitter

.

“I’ve had a serious injury and NEED Help! Can somone please call Winding Trails in Farmington, CT tell them I’m stuck bike crash in woods,” she tweeted at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday.

Earlier that day, Fazzina and her cousin had entered a mini-triathlon at Winding Trails, an outdoor resort in Farmington. Fazzine, who runs a Philadelphia-based health care public relations and social media communications consultancy, took a wrong turn and headed deep into unfamiliar woods.

As she road downhill, Fazzina’s bike hit roots and and the cyclist flew over her handlebars.

“When in air all I kept thinking was ‘OMG – I’m going to break my neck!’ And there is no one out here with me!,” she wrote on her Web site.

She hit the ground, and her bike struck her as she landed.

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Finder of lost iPhone prototype revealed

Ghost Writer | April 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

The secret is out.

Those of you who have been wondering who in the world sold that lost

iphone

prototype to Gizmodo for the $5000 can now sleep easy because the guy who found the phone has been identified as Brian Hogan who is a 21 year old dude from Redwood City.

And there you have it, it’s come full circle.

Someone is definitely going to write a book about this lost

iPhone

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MC Hammer Live on CNN Talking About Twitter

admin | March 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

MC Hammer- Great post by Alan Underkofler of Square Martini Media back on August 2009.  Worth sharing!  Who would’ve thought MC Hammer is active on the social mediaspheres?!  I’m glad he is.  I’m now following him on twitter.com/mchammer.
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C-SPAN Puts Huge Video Archive Online

Ghost Writer | March 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

C-SPAN may not be the most riveting television, but it does provide a way of experiencing American politics without some O’Reilly or Olbermann telling you what to think. It’s the primary source, unmediated. So it’s great news that the network is making its entire archive—160,000 hours of video, dating back to 1987—available online in a searchable, user-friendly C-SPAN Video Library.
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Friends, Connections and Tweeps: An Overview of Social Media’s “Big 3”

admin | November 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

A very well designed presentation of explaining Social Media’s “Big 3″.

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