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#Pittsburgh – Hashtags for Pittsburgh

25 January 2010

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Image by Search Engine People Blog via Flickr Chris Brogan (he writes a great blog on social media that I follow daily) had a post last week on how to help in Haiti – in the post he links to a great post - Designing Hashtags for Emergency Response, by Chris Messina from the blog Factory [...]

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Whuffaoke = Social Capital Meets Karaoke – The Karaoke Road Trip Stops in Pittsburgh

22 July 2009

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Image by miss_rogue via Flickr What the Whuffie? Whuffie is a term used to explain social capital in a new book called The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt. I am reading this book now and it is a really interesting look at how social capital is playing an increasing role in business today and how social [...]

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Born in Pittsburgh – Chalkbot is Making a Mark on the Tour de France

12 July 2009

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Image by Mike Monteiro via Flickr A few weeks ago the folks at DeepLocal sent me an email about Chalkbot – I took a look at the link to the web page about the robot and thought it was pretty interesting as they are often working on interesting projects. Fast forward a few weeks and [...]

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Pittsburgh Twestival

10 February 2009

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This Thursday, folks from around the world will be gathering to support a great cause. The Pittsburgh Twitter community will be getting together at local bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, malls, movie theaters, parks etc… to raise money for Charity:Water.The event is being dubbed as a “Twestival“.Charity:Water is a non-profit organization that helps to bring clean, [...]

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Connect to the Pittsburgh Organizations via Social Media

17 January 2009

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out Image by Gary Hayes via FlickrPittsburgh Parks Conservatory is a non profit organization that supports the parks in the city of Pittsburgh. They have been doing some great things in Schenley Park. Pittsburgh Parks Conservatory has set up on Facebook and Twitter to make it easier for you to follow their good [...]

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What visitors are loving in Pittsburgh on Yelp

1 December 2008

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Image by sarabear via FlickrYelp.com is a great website where you can read and write reviews of local businesses (see my other post on Yelp here).  I was just looking around at some of the recent reviews in Pittsburgh here are some of the 4 and 5 star reviews from people who were visiting Pittsburgh.  [...]

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