During one of my recent trips my eye got caught by this Internet hotspot in London. It made me think about what the Internet has become.
Few years ago people were using Internet and cyber cafes to check their emails and surf. Today the web is much more. Chats, social networking, online gaming, calls, live/on-demand video streaming, etc.

Episode: VMC #185 – Blogging and Micro-Blogging in My Life – João Lopes Marques (BlogFest Tallinn ‘09)

Episode: VMC #145 - The Importance of Listening
Forget the traditional old-school ‘one to many’ communication model used abused by organizations to connect with their audience through controlled traditional-mass-media channels. No I’m not saying that traditional media models will die, they will eventually have to evolve in order to survive.

Yesterday after my keynote presentation on ‘Social Media in Education’ I had a nice twitter chat with the one I define the Podcasting Queen my friend Karin Hoegh. Remember her?

Episode: VMC #144 - Social Media in Education
This is the keynote on ‘Social Media in Education’ that I delivered yesterday at ITK in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter… this is what we are starting to hear more. Finally. I’ve been using Twitter since 2007 but the fact is that now it’s spreading also among the non-pioneer-sphere outside the fishbowland this definitely opens up an even broader range of opportunities in terms of communications.

Mike already posted about this video which means that a good portion of the geek-sphere might have seen it, but thanks to some recent chats I had outside the Geekland I realized that there still is a large audience outside the fishbowl that wasn’t aware of it so… I wish to all of you, geeks or not, a nice weekend + enjoy it the video!

My thoughts go out to the families affected by this tragedy

You probably heard about the Continental Airlines flight that crashed near Buffalo few hours ago.
What’s impressive from the communication point of view it’s to see that the information about the crash spread much faster through social media channels rather on traditional ones. Have a look at the following tweets:

Janetti Chon released a great blog post that includes all the hot links from the Bloggers’ Roundtable  that we had with Tim O’Reilly, Jennifer Pahlka and Brady Forrest at Web 2.0 Expo Europe. In the post you’ll find also all the links to the videos I created for the session:
…via Janetti Chon - Web 2.0 Blog…

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I’ve been a long time listener of FIR (For Immediate Release). If you are still not familiar with it, FIR is the twice-weekly podcast of Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz on public relations and technology. For me it’s a real must listen.

Nice viral idea for this new Lovable video.
Translation:
70% of women wear the wrong bra size.
Find you perfect size at www.lovable.com

‘Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim Your Life’ is the new book written by my social media friend Ian Sanders.
Published today in the UK, ‘Juggle!’ is about reframing your working life by busting a few myths about work and showing the benefits of a work life that reflects your multi-dimensional talents. The book features contributions from a range of jugglers from Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi to Melanie Greene, Hollywood talent manager and film producer.

This week I was part of the great DLD Bloggers Team that live blogged directly from the DLD conference.

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)
To offer you a better live coverage during this session I’ll focus on Adam Valkin, Jason Glickman and Arne Rees. Thomas Praus will cover Jeremy Allaire and Axel Schmiegelow.

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)
Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine)
Carolyn McCall (Guardian)
Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)

Episode: VMC #115 - Upload Videos Once to Multiple Sites
Good stats, time saving, I use it.

Show Notes & Credits: Tubemogul.com

Episode: VMC #111 - Tell if Your Social Media Expert Is a Carpetbagger
Geoff wrote this great post. He gave me the inspiration for this video.
UPDATE: + Here’s my take on ‘Experts’.

Thank you Robert!
Andrea

Episode: VMC #91 - Le Web; Stay tuned on andreavascellari.com
Next week I’ll be in Paris for Le Web! I’ll report live and I’ll release everything here on andreavascellari.com so grab the feed and stay tuned