Feb 9, 2010 Posted by Kim Werker

Free Thinking Live Blog @ Make & Meaning

February 16, 20105:00 pmto7:00 pm Never content to sit back when a stupendous conversation gets going, we’re doing a live live blog event over at Make & Meaning. It’ll be all about Free, and we hope you’ll join us! It’s next Tuesday evening – 16th February at 5pm Pacific time/8pm Eastern. To participate, just go to this page. If this is the first you’re hearing about... read more

Feb 4, 2010 Posted by Kim Werker

That Woo-Woo Money Thing

free-sign by Flickr user koka_sexton (CC-Attribution license) Diane Gilleland has been writing and podcasting (with Paul over at Dudecraft) about “free” this week, and as always I’ve been reading and listening with giddy excitement because she tackles such big ideas so simply and eloquently. In her post today over at Make & Meaning, she ends with a point that’s made all the... read more

Jan 26, 2010 Posted by Kim Werker

Ooh ooh, Hire Me!

via pantufla on Flickr Over at LexPublica, we’ve decided to forgo seeking major outside investment in favour of using that energy to get some serious work done. Translation: we’re putting a whole lotta love into our work, and not so much with the getting paid for the time being. So I’m hiring myself out on the side! If you, your publication or organization, or someone you know and... read more

Jan 16, 2010 Posted by Kim Werker

Weekend Brainfood of the Gender Imbalance Sort

Poster by Homer Ansley, ca. 1942 Your weekend assignment, should you choose to exercise your brain, is to read Clay Shirky’s Rant About Women and then to read the comments (and if the comments are too plentiful, you must at least read this comment). In short, Shirky asserts that women need to ask for more and promote themselves more aggressively, and essentially to take more risks in doing so. Men... read more

Jan 14, 2010 Posted by Kim Werker

Small Biz Social Media Series: Twitterfeed Tutorial

Image credit respres Paul over at the Make and Meaning group blog asked me to let the contributors know how to set up Twitterfeed to automatically tweet on their personal Twitter account when they write a new post on the blog, and I figured that since I already wrote it in an email I might as well post it here, too. Twitterfeed is a free service that automatically posts a tweet to your Twitter stream when... read more