With Internet Week in full swing, I stopped by the W Hotel in Times Square to get a look at the Instagram photography exhibit, a collaboration between the hotel and a photography community called Instagram NYC.
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Google+ recently rolled out its Hangouts On Air tool to all of its users. In the spirit of Internet Week, which is coming up May 14 – 18 in New York City, GalleyCat and AppNewser editor Jason Boog and I decided to try it out. We invited Mashable editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff, Buddy Media VP of communications Joe Ciarallo, and Newsweek Daily Beast senior social media editor Brian Ries to join us On Air and help us develop our game plan for the next week.
Unlike those purveying their wares in the Internet Week NY displays that surrounded his presentation stage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nick Kristof kicked off his keynote “pitch” with remarkable modesty. In the technology world, he said, he felt like a prehistoric fish about to evolve.
During his presentation and the Q&A that followed, Kristof humbled social media, too.
More on that, after the jump
The first day of Internet Week New York kicked off yesterday with the conference formerly known as TWTRCON. Realtime NY 11 packed over forty speakers into its presentation stream of case studies, best practices and tools for the realtime web. Social, mobile, distilling to 140 characters, coping with 1000 applications, billion-dollar corporations and three-man bands were well-represented.
Couldn’t make it? Here are some of the conversations that resonated with me.
Part of Internet Week New York this year focused on social change at a day-long “Promise” summit. That event, produced by ThinkSocial and sponsored by Pespico, showcased brands, executives and entrepreneurs using social media to affect global change. ThinkSocial is a non-profit initiative dedicated to analyzing the use of social and mobile media, and we decided to take this opportunity to look at 4 brands that promote social change through social media.
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